M ore often than not we prefer “big” over “small.” We’d like a big house a big salary a big car. We’re attracted to big signs and big headlines. Most people want to “make it big” in business and have a “big name” among their colleagues.
As we know everything in the physical world has a parallel in the spiritual world.
We tend to consider the physical world the “real” world. When we talk about Yad Hashem for instance we think that the real hand is our hand and Hashem’s Hand is the metaphor. In fact the opposite is true.
As Rabbi Akiva Tatz so eloquently explains the real “hand” is Hashem’s; our hand is a metaphor for Hashem’s spiritual Hand. So it is with every physical attribute. The reality is the spiritual reality; the physical exists to help us grasp the spiritual concept that it represents.
