More than this, the Divine soul “sees” the truth that Hashem is really the only True existence of everything and there is no independent existence at all. The animal soul and the human intellect, however, don’t “see” it that way, they firmly believe in their own independent existence as being the true reality. When a Jew taps into his Divine soul deeply enough through contemplation of Hashem’s greatness, he is able to be conscious of his Divine soul’s belief that there is nothing besides Hashem. After consciously recognizing that enough times, he will begin to seriously desire to truly experience reality as his Divine soul sees it, that we are just part of Hashem and there is nothing separate from Him at all.
This yearning is called a desire “to become absorbed in the Essence of the King”, meaning experience how we are part of Hashem Himself.
This love to reunite with Hashem is called “Teshuva/Return”, which is with greater intensity when it comes specifically from a place of darkness, where the person was involved only in material matters and the vanities of this world, this greater intensity comes from the advantage of light that shines in a place of darkness.
This love is also called (Devarim 6:5) “You shall love Hashem...with all of your might”, which is literally without any limitations, this love comes from overcoming the opposite of holiness which is spiritual darkness.
Like our Sages commented on the verse (Bereishis 1:31): “And Hashem saw everything that He had made [in the six days of creation] and look, they were very good,” they explained “good” is a reference to the angel of life (which brings revealed good), and “very good” is a reference to the angel of death (which brings hidden good), since specifically through transforming the opposite of holiness and the spiritual darkness which is the animal soul, the Divine soul is able to come to love Hashem “with all of its might” which is without any limitations.
One of the explanations of the above commentary of the Sages that “good” is the angel of life and “very good” is the angel of death is that this is a reference to the Divine soul and animal soul of every Jew.
The Divine soul is inherently good, it yearns to serve Hashem and connect to Him. Therefore, it is called the ‘angel of life’ since it brings connection to Hashem, the Source of Life.
The animal soul wants to steer a person away from connecting to Hashem and be involved in worldly matters and pleasures, thus weakening the connection to Hashem who is the Source of Life, there it is called ‘the angel of death’.
Even though the Divine soul is already ‘good’, but its desire to connect to Hashem is natural and therefore somewhat limited. However, when it has to overcome the animal soul’s distractions it goes beyond its ‘nature’ and reaches a much deeper love and connection to Hashem. This deeper connection and love is ‘very good’.
So far, we explained the advantage of the love for Hashem in this world like the advantage of light in a place of darkness.
