“One who knows the secret of the human soul, and the structure of the human body is able to understand something of the upper worlds, for the human being is in the image of a small world” (Ibn Ezra comment to Exodus 25:40)

“The rabbis taught: The creation of the world was like the creation of humanity, for everything that God created in the world, God created in the human being. The heavens are the head of humankind, the sun and the moon are the human eyes, the stars are the hair on the human head” (Otzar haMidrashim, Olam Katan 406).

You are a world.

They, the others, are worlds too, no less unique, and as beloved to HaShem as you, no more no less.

Do not strengthen the darkness with your singular judgement (P.A. 2:4) rather love Hashem for what has been revealed to you and reach for the expanse, merit the blessing of your fathers.

The great war began with Adam’s dissent and is continued to this day. This is the conflict kadmon, the “great war.”

Navigate the Midbar and run clear of the ways of Plishtim. The greater world is the nation, the smaller worlds are the individuals, among whom we are counted.

The best ‘suffering’ for atonement is through study.

Please, HaShem, may all of Israel be zoyche through trials from learning and nothing else.

Koheles states ‘Hashem made Adam simple but they seek out many intrigues.’

The most profound concepts must also be the most

simple as we are taught, “ein od.” There is nothing more than You.

But our simplicity requires sensitivity and discernment and does not encourage being a simpleton.

This idea is verified in the Chumash section dealing with Hagar and the wellspring for, as our Ch’Z’L’ state, the well was always present, it was not provided for her miraculously, but she did not see it.