There are several parables associated with this teaching; one is that if a stone wall was to topple chances are that the top brick would fall furthest away from the original location of the wall. Another is that if one was to drop a penny from a very high place into the sand the coin would fall a lot further into the sand than if he had dropped from closer. The two above parables show how something great can fall into this world and be something small, which is also a classical explanation of why the face of the lion which is on the right of Hashem’s chariot is a non-kosher animal whilst the ox which is kosher is on the left which in Chassidus is always lower than the right. But then there are parables that look at it from the other way around and show how from a small almost insignificant thing one can appreciate where it must be coming from, like the tiniest insignificant single drop of liquid that falls off the meniscus of a large barrel proves that the barrel is actually full of liquid, or a fire that looks small from a long way away, proves that the fire must be quite big in its place and the further away it is, the bigger the fire must be, even though from where you are, the light of that fire is quite dim.
