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The Alter Rebbe: The Infinite Being |
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 The Infinite Being fills all worlds and provides the Life Force for them all. Each spiritual universe contains countless entities, with myriads upon myriads of levels of angels and souls.
The number of such universes is also infinite, one higher than the next.
The essence of the Infinite Being is exactly the same in the lowest worlds as it is in the highest. In this respect, it is just like the soul, which is equally present in all parts of the body.
The Tikkunei Zohar (17a) thus says that, “He is hidden from all the hidden.”
Even though the highest worlds are absolutely hidden, God is just as hidden in them as He is in the lower world.
The Tikkunei Zohar thus concludes, “No thought can grasp Him at all” – even the highest worlds.
God therefore exists in the lower worlds in exactly the same manner that He exists in the highest worlds. The only difference between the highest spiritual worlds and the lowest ones involves the transmission of the Life Force.
The Infinite Being transmits an illumination to all worlds through an aspect of “revealing out of concealment.” He thus gives Life Force to all worlds, as well as to the entities that exist in them.
The higher worlds receive this in a somewhat more revealed manner than the lower ones. The entities that exist in each world then receive it, each one according to its own particular nature and strength. In each case, this depends on the particular mode through which the Infinite Being transmits Life Force to each one and illuminates it. Tanya 51 – 72a
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