Editing Matan Torah (section)

== The Excellence of Choice in Torah and Mitzvos ==
The Avos kept the Torah before it was given, however Matan Torah innovated things that weren't present with the Avos, with many details as follows:

In the drawing down through Mitzvos: Before Matan Torah, the drawing down of holiness was only spiritual, and not in the physical object with which they fulfilled the Mitzvah, even in the Mitzvos that the Avos fulfilled physically. Because before Matan Torah there was a decree that the higher realms would not descend below and the lower realms would not ascend above, therefore there wasn't a connection between the holiness of the Mitzvah (higher realms) with the physical object with which the Mitzvah was done (lower realms).

Additionally, many Mitzvos were fulfilled by the Avos only spiritually (like Tefillin which mention the exodus from Egypt which hadn't yet occurred).

But after Matan Torah, the decree and partition between higher and lower realms was nullified, therefore the drawing down in fulfilling Mitzvos is in the physical object with which the Mitzvah is fulfilled, creating a connection between the physical object (with which the Mitzvah is fulfilled) and the holiness of the Mitzvah, to the extent that in several Mitzvos, the physical object becomes a Cheftza shel Mitzvah (object of Mitzvah).

And the drawing down is also extremely elevated - drawing down Ohr Ein Sof that's above the definition of higher and lower (upper and lower realms), and this gives the power for the connection of upper and lower realms that occurred at Matan Torah, as well as in the fulfillment of Mitzvos after Matan Torah.