The counselor explained to the husband the importance of gifts as tokens of love 💐 to the health of a relationship and exhorted him to buy his wife presents.

The next day, the man returned home with a large box full of all sorts of knick knacks 🎁 and chocolates.

"My dear ❤️," he said, "I bought you a huge selection of gifts so that any time that you feel the need, just go to the box and take one…"

To his complete consternation, instead of thanking him, his wife burst into tears😰…

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A gift that isn't a demonstration of deep-felt love is like a *body👤 without a soul 🌟*.

It isn't worth much at all!

Getting the deed done is what really counts - that is what we learned yesterday.

And yet, we also learned that an action done without intention is like a body without a soul.

Chassidut emphasizes the importance of mindfulness 🧠, emotion 💓, and excitement 🔥 as the "soul" of the mitzvah.

The sages specifically use the wording of

_*A body without a soul*_

Which seems to insinuate that such an action is useless, like a dead body.

But the truth is, there is a very deep idea being related here through this wording.

We'll be getting a bit philosophical and deep… Hold on tight until the end. We'll get there 🤓 - - - in a few days.

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Yesterday, we learned that all creations, even lifeless ones, possess a spirit that keeps them in existence.

With humans 👬🏻👭🏻 and animals 🐒🦇🐣 that spirit is easy to discern it because they move 〰️, expend energy🩸, and reproduce 👨‍👩‍👧.

Nowadays 👌 it is known that even plants 🌳🌾🌱possess a less-obvious, but no less essential, spirit of life within them.

Even inanimate objects 🧽🏺, which by definition refers to things that lack life, have lots of action going on inside them🔬🧫. There are millions of electrons moving around in each and every cell of their being … There’s a whole invisible but active city hidden within.

Each inanimate object has its own unique composition which is what makes it what it is.

Any little change at the molecular level creates a chain of reactions 🔅🔅🔅that completely changes the entire essence of the object.

Although there is a different amount of divine energy and life in each category,

They *all* have one similarity:

None of them perceive spirituality.

G-d's light is concealed 🌚to them.

It’s like there’s a huge

⛔GAG ORDER ⛔

On divine revelation in this world

The physical presentation of each thing in this world overshadows and drowns out 🌊its ability to perceive spirituality:

🪨 A stone does not sense G-d's presence.

Neither does a worm 🪱.

Humans don’t perceive it either 🙆🏻‍♀️.

When looking at someone's arm💪 , we cannot tell whether he put on tefillin ◼️◼️that morning or not 🤷🏻‍♀️.

We know how to learn 🤓 but our intellect 😇doesn't help us with spiritual reception 📡. After studying Torah, we are still unable to pick up signals of G-dliness in this world 🌍.

What this all means is -

*When it comes to experiencing G-dliness, all 4 levels of creation are equal!*

Spiritual awareness is completely hidden to all of us ☁️.

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_This is not the case in the upper spiritual worlds where G-dliness✨ is felt to various degrees._

But then why did the Kabbalists teach that creation is divided into categories of inanimate, plant, animal, and human life forms? Doesn’t this mean there _is_ some sort of difference between the various levels of creation 🤔❔❔❔

Yes.

The difference lies not in how much the creations perceive G-dliness but rather, in how much the G-d's light and energy is concealed *within them.*