G-d’s most fervent desire is that this physical world 🌍become a place where He can reside openly; where all of creation will recognize Him as Creator and the Power 🌟 behind everything. This world, however, naturally conceals the presence of G-d 🌥️. Creations do not obviously demonstrate their spiritual origins and connection to G-d.
In order to access and maintain a connection 🔗with Him, we need to fulfill His commandments. The 613 commandments are G-d’s inner will and desire🌟🌟, the things He likes and that bring Him joy:
Tefillin🕴🏽⛩️🕴🏽,
Ritual hand washing🚰,
Tzitzit ⏸️⏸️ Etc
By fulfilling His will, you welcome His presence ✨ into this world ✨.
There are lofty levels of G-d that remain disconnected from this world 🌪️. They are too infinite to be contained by finite creations. The level of Divine Presence that can infiltrate and be contained in this world is called *Shechina* in Hebrew. The root of the word Shechina is related to the root word "Shochen" - to dwell It refers to the level of G-dliness that descends ⬇️ down to this world and stays here, instilling G-dliness into the physical creations and elevating the world into a more spiritual and holy place.
How do we get G-d to dwell in this lowly world🙄?
👉🏻 Accommodating something 🤗requires making a space for it 🙂: If you want to hear someone else 🧏🏻♀️, You need to be quiet 🤐. If you want to fill your cup with coffee ☕, First it needs to be empty .
Emptying a space for the divine presence ✨ means nullifying and eliminating its identity. It has to be totally apparent that this is G-dly and nothing else. Nothing can exist as its own being in the space where G-d rests.
When a king 🤴🏼wants to remove his crown 👑 in order to sleep, he does *not* place it on the head of one of his officers💂🏻♂️. He will only put it on a stand ⛩️ or hook ⚜️ for the crown. The officers 💂🏻♂️are self-aware. They feel themselves and their greatness. If the king would put the crown on one of them, he would begin to imagine himself as king 🤴🏼… A hook ⚜️ or hatstand is ~nothing~. It simply holds the crown for the king.
The same is with G-d’s presence resting on physical objects in this world. The divine presence can only reside on something that is a ~non-entity~ so that the holiness is its entire existence.
As mentioned above, souls long for G-d ✨😍 ✨. You can only long for something that you don’t have; that isn’t part of you 🙌. This means that souls have an identity separate from G-d. This applies even to Tzaddikim who are righteous 😇, G-dly people. Their souls originate from the loftiest spiritual levels and they desire ❤️🔥nothing other than G-dliness. This desire and longing only proves how they are indeed an entity separate from G-d.
It turns out that the only way to become united with G-d and enable Him to dwell down here in this world 🌎 is 👉🏻*through the performance of the mitzvot (commandments).* 💥 ● 💥 ● 💥 ● 💥
A soul is pure and holy but it does not automatically draw down G-d’s light and presence 💫. Mitzvot are G-d’s innermost will and desire. They exist simply because these are the things G-d enjoys. By dedicating yourself to fulfilling mitzvot, you create space within your life for G-d’s light and energy to dwell in you 💘, along with all the accompanying blessings and goodness.
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When people came to the Lubavitcher Rebbe requesting blessing for physical matters, the Rebbe encouraged them to strengthen themselves spiritually by adding in the observance 🙌of a mitzvah. Based on the above, we can understand the why: G-d’s commandments are the channel of His presence - His light and energy 🔆 - to this world. By making ourselves a repository for G-d’s light, we benefit from the accompanying blessings and goodness 🥰!
