' The love of God '...

"When you desire to eat or drink, or fulfill other worldly desires, and you focus your awareness on the love of God, then you elevate that desire to spiritual desire.

Thereby you draw out the holy spark that dwells within.

You bring forth holy sparks from the material world.

There is no path greater than this.

For wherever you go and whatever you do — even mundane activities — you serve God."



Levi Yitshak of Berditchev
in Daniel C. Matt
The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
NY: Quality Paperbacks, 1995, p. 151