If I had to give you the secret of life in three sentences—and if I may say, obviously not for ego, but for a drop of credibility—thank G-d I had the merit of writing and translating over 40 books on Judaism and Jewish mysticism and authoring over 150,000 short teachings.

It is: in the beginning, from infinite unconditional love, the Original, unlimited by His very nature, seeing your beautiful soul and loving it—as in the Hebrew word for love, Ahava, which contains the word hav, to give—wished to bestow the greatest gift possible.

Which is the ability for you, through sifting through the darkness, to find light, and then ultimately to become His light.