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Still another method of understanding our paragraph, and ‎especially the manner in which it is introduced: Service of the ‎Lord may be predicated on one of two considerations. 1) The ‎person concerned, using his power of reasoning, has come to the ‎conclusion that the universe did not create itself but was created ‎by a Superior intellect, an intellect that is many times superior to ‎the human intellect. It seems clear to such a person that such a ‎Creator deserves to be worshipped. 2) Another reason why some ‎people worship G’d as the Creator and Master is that G’d has ‎endowed them with a special divine inspiration, commonly ‎known as ‎סייעתא דשמיא‎, an assist originating in the celestial ‎regions. The former type of person has formulated in his mind’s ‎eye some notion of the essence of such a Creator; the latter type ‎of person, while loyal, has not formed any notion of what this ‎Creator may be like. The former type of individual, having arrived ‎at certain conclusions, is able to communicate them to other ‎people and possibly convince them to share his views so that ‎these people too become servants of the Lord. The second ‎category of individual lacks this ability to convince others to be ‎like him, as he cannot explain to them rationally why he is ‎convinced that he is on the right path. Avram had by now ‎attained a level of intelligence, ‎במחזה‎, that enabled him to get a ‎fairly clear vision of what G’d, the Creator of a universe, is like. ‎Having attained insights, -not unlike a father who hands down to ‎his son his insights- he could now be informed that he would also ‎be blessed with physical offspring, parallel to the intellectual ‎achievements that he had to his credit due to his own efforts.‎