Editing A stone shall cry out from the wall (section)

== Result of Our Actions and Service ==
This divine revelation began at the Giving of the Torah. When Hashem said: "I am Hashem your God," the Torah states that it was "a great voice that did not cease." The Sages explain that this voice had no echo. The Rebbe explains that an echo is created when sound waves collide with an object, causing the sound waves to return (similar to reflected light). However, at the Giving of the Torah, Hashem's voice penetrated creation without "colliding" with it. As explained by our Sages (in the Midrash), all of creation was silent ("When the Holy One gave the Torah, no bird chirped... the sea was not agitated... rather, the world was quiet and still, and the voice came forth: 'I am...'"). This silence in creation occurred because when Hashem spoke, created beings heard, understood and accepted the words. In other words, the divine revelation that happened at the Giving of the Torah did not contradict their existence despite their physicality, but rather penetrated them and their reality. (This was possible because the divine light was a "great voice." Spirituality is not normally perceived in physicality, but the divine light that was revealed transcends all definitions of both spiritual and physical, and therefore can illuminate even within the physical.)

The Giving of the Torah empowered human actions to penetrate and affect the inanimate reality around them. Indeed, this is the meaning of the Sages' statement that in the future era, the beams of a person's house will testify about their actions, because one's actions influence them both for good and for bad. Through Torah study and fulfillment of mitzvot, a person reveals within them a divine light that will be fully revealed in the future. In a person's divine service, this means that Torah study should permeate one's entire being and guide all actions, so that every detail of life is infused with Torah and mitzvot. This prophecy also expresses the eternal nature of mitzvot despite their future nullification, since the nature of mitzvot in the future will not be as commands from one to another, but rather a complete connection and unification between the commander and the world - where the world itself naturally conducts itself according to the Creator's will.