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'''Gold''' is the most precious and important metal among the seven types of metals. It corresponds to the highest part of the attribute of Gevurah that will be revealed in the future times, representing love like flames of fire.

In Likutei Amarim - Chapter 50, the Alter Rebbe writes that the service of the Leviim, which is "love like flames of fire from the aspect of supreme Gevuros of Binah Ila'ah," is achieved through contemplation of the greatness of Ein Sof Baruch Hu, causing the soul to become inflamed and passionate for the precious glory of His greatness:

"There is yet another form of love that surpasses them all, like the superiority of gold over silver. This is a love like flames of fire from the aspect of supreme Gevuros of Binah Ila'ah. Through contemplation of the greatness of Ein Sof Baruch Hu, before whom everything is considered absolutely as nothing, the soul becomes inflamed and passionate for the precious glory of His greatness, to gaze upon the glory of the King like intense flames of fire that rise upward, separating from the wick and wood to which they cling. This occurs through the strengthening of the divine fire element in the divine soul, leading to thirst, as written 'My soul thirsts for You,' then to love-sickness, and finally to the actual expiration of the soul, as written 'My soul expires.' From here comes the root of the Leviim below [and in the future when the world will be elevated, they will be the Kohanim, as the Arizal wrote on the verse 'the Kohanim the Leviim,' that today's Leviim will be Kohanim in the future], and the service of the Leviim was to raise their voice in song and thanksgiving with melody and pleasantness in the aspect of Ratzo V'Shov, which is this intense love like a flame emerging from lightning as mentioned in the Gemara [Chapter 2 of Chagigah]."