Light of the Infinite: The Genesis of Light

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

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.

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.

“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

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.

with all the seemingly unending descents, hardships and ways to break our strides, we can’t let it pull us down. We have to keep moving; keeping our soul’s essence and the ultimate purpose of spiritualizing reality until our own redemption, both prati (personal) and klali (public/general) become actualized into the final redemption and the redempti

even if the world is full of Esavs, ruled by Edom, we still have to emulate Yakov, perpetually refining ourselves and those around us (“sheep, servants, and maidservants”) for the Ultimate Redemption.

The fact that I controlled my mind from considering even a single thought from the Torah may be accounted equal to having observed the whole of the Torah.”

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.