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And God said, “Let there be light.” When a person engages for its own sake, for God’s sake, his speaking then kindles light. Initially, light and darkness served in mixture; for the Torah is called “light” and the foreign turning is called “darkness.” But now God separated the light from the darkness. And that is [the meaning of the Sages] of Blessed Memory’s statement, “Why do goats [izzim] walk in front?” (Shabbat 77b), which is to say Israel, who are called “strongest” [azzim] of the nations as in [the Sages] of Blessed Memory’s statement (Beitzah 25b). What is the reason they have the power to go and attach themselves to the Head, which is the beginning of everything? And they said that “at first [it] was dark,” they are in the darkness of the levels, and they return from there to light, attaching themselves and elevating themselves from there to light, and sweetening the small mind with greatness; therefore they have this power.