Light of the Infinite: The Genesis of Light

“Going to yourself” means looking inward, to “yourself”—as every person has their own point of truth. To find it, we each need to leave our “land,” representing the materialism around us (each person falls to different vices). Leaving your “birthplace” represents physical desires, sensual pleasures and depression. Leaving a person’s ancestry or “fa

Avraham, the father of the Jewish tradition, discovered the Truth by searching what it meant to be his true self and the responsibilities that come with that, while those around him had fallen to worshiping desires and other false idols.

it is often when we have our own high expectations of how something should play out that we are the most disappointed with what we receive.

Hashem says to them: “Are not the righteous satisfied with what is stored up for them in the world to come that they wish to live at ease in this world too?”

There is an adage, If you see that your livelihood is limited, then give tzedakah. It applies to lack in general—if you feel like you aren’t receiving, focus on giving,

each of us is tasked with not only upholding the covenant of Avraham, but of doing right with all the blessings that come from it—going inward to elevate ourselves to the most high, and spiritualizing reality, which inspires all those around us to do the same.

Esav saw it all as further proof that life has no purpose and that the blessing too had no use for him. He believed the moment and getting whatever you can was most important. So, he found the soup, for the moment, to be more valuable than a blessing in this and the next world, when he did not believe in the holiness of either.

Hashem’s light even in a place seemingly devoid of it. In our own lives, we need to eliminate our safek, our Amalek, the nations and notions that attempt to force us to turn away from faith and alignment.

to put so much perpetual focus to not focus on something keeps you just as connected, if not even more.