Not every individual can become like a tzadik, a servant of the Almighty, whose very person is the property of G-d. However, every individual can reach the level of the beinoni, and become an agent of the G-d to fulfill His plan of transforming this lowly world into a G-dly abode.
The Torah describes an agent as being one who is fundamentally connected to the individual who sent him.
Text 13
A man's agent is as himself.
Talmud, Kiddushin 42b
When an individual appoints an agent in order for this fellow to fulfill his wish, he invests an element of himself into his messenger, which causes that the latter be considered as the person himself. Not only are the agent’s actions considered as an extension of the one who sent him, but his very identity becomes such that it is as if he were the individual that appointed him.
Because he is as the person, that sent him that by extension, his actions are considered to be the act of the one who sent him. Nevertheless, although the identity of the agent is a veritable extension of the one who appointed him, there is a difference between the manner in which a servant is an extension of his master, and the way this is so in regard to an agent.
A servant: Such an individual has no personal identity whatsoever, as his very body is the property of his owner.
An agent: Such an individual is only considered to be an extension of the one that appointed him concerning the matter which he was appointed to fulfill. In regard to everything else that he is involved with, the agent does have his own personal identity.
Although not every Jew can become a servant of G-d, whose very identity is the possession of Almighty, he can affect within himself that he become an agent of G-d where a portion of his identity is expressive of G-d.
When a person becomes an agent to fulfill G-d’s mission, he “transfers ownership” of himself to G-d regarding the “property itself with regard to the produce it yields” and consequently, his general identity becomes G-dly. When he makes this acquisition, by extension, all his actions will be according to G-d’s will.
