Too many candles – too many deaths – too many dead Jews

Earthly reality is fuel to the flame of Divine reality; everything is consumed by G-d.

But earthly reality is not only matter and animality; it is also humanity.

We, too, belong to the world. The difference is that the soul of humanity is capable of using this fire in order to transform and not to annihilate.

Human beings can raise things up to a higher level and thus preserve them.

We are letting the previous essence burn up and, as in every burning, which is actually an essential chemical change, we are changing the composition of the reality of the world.

The justification of our life is that, at every moment, it burns in the consuming fire of the Lord, for our soul is the candle of G-d.