Let us apply this principle to everything

First and foremost, for us and everything to exist, the Kabbalists teach us, the ultimate existence had to “remove” a part of his being, to make “space” for a new being.

This is called tzimtzum, retraction of one entity for the construct of a new entity (now obviously as God always exists, in truth, this reality occurs in perception for us, so instead of us seeing truth, we see falsehood; allowing for the candle to shine; for example, during the day, light cannot shine, for relative to sunlight, it adds nothing; but if you create darkness – turn the world away from sunlight – suddenly, every candle becomes a most significant creation.)

Following this paradigm, once we ourselves exist, we went through three stages of metamorphosis, from a shallow narcissistic and selfish – purely animalistic type existence – to the creation of the human being who is good.

Generally speaking, this metamorphosis had a three stage process, the first of course was what our sages teach, are the two thousand years of creation – in this, human identity / ego was born.

Then came the two thousand years of Torah, in this, the Jews – who interestingly had their identity crushed through the harsh Egyptian exile – were implanted with a new paradigm, namely, one of adherence to God.

But this is but a step in the right direction, far from the infinite perception of God, to allow man to continually metamorphosize (for example, imagine a worm turning into a butterfly, but that butterfly can continuously go back into the cocoon stage and create ever more beautiful patterns on its wings.)

Similarly, for the redemption to be created, once again man’s ego had to be crushed, primarily this happened obviously to the Jews through the holocaust, a crushing blow, but to the western world through the cataclysmal retched self-repulsion at having created both such evil, world-wars, which is why we find a new policy of liberalism and human rights, as opposed to nationalism and ego posturing, post the holocaust.

But ultimately this was but a cocoon stage for the great messianic revelation – namely, in our time, when one by one, hundreds of millions of people are internally discovering God, who being infinite is both the creator of the human, the destroyer of our ego, and the metamorphosis into ever better stages of light.