Editing The Power of Growth (section)

== Its Significance in Divine Service ==
The significance of the power of growth in divine service is explained in Igeret HaKodesh chapter 20 in Tanya. The letter reveals a new principle in Chassidut and explains at length that the power of growth in the ground reveals that specifically in the inanimate (earth) is revealed the power of the Infinite (in the continuous and eternal growth of new plants from nothing to something). The understanding that specifically in '''physical''' things (in which we fulfill the mitzvot) is revealed His essence and being '''literally''' (and not in lights, revelations, and spiritual matters) adds wonderful vitality to the fulfillment of mitzvot.

"The number of heavenly soul words 'His essence and being, whose existence is from His essence, He alone has the power and ability to create something from nothing and absolute nothingness literally' opened new wellsprings of vitality in the fulfillment of practical mitzvot for Chassidim." — The Rebbe Rayatz's talk on Acharon Shel Pesach 5694.