It has taken me many years for this penny to drop- you see the Rebbe frequently speaks about Divine levels (nature, supernatural, beyond both, hence with the ability to merge both) the first two thousand years of creation we were purely in the selfish natural state – then with the birth of Abraham and the beginning of the two thousand years of Torah, we entered the supernatural, as it relates to the natural state ( succinctly, we were given a higher Divinely ordained lifestyle) however beginning at the destruction of the Holy Temple we entered into the infinite hence simultaneously both supernatural and natural