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This is called \u201cthe work of man\u2019s hands.\u201d That which a person can depict as being called \u201cspirituality,\u201d to this he prays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when a person repents and is rewarded with opening the eyes in the Torah, in the manner that He who knows the mysteries testifies about him, only then is it considered that the spirituality he has attained is not the work of his own hands, for then the light is revealed to him according to the depiction he is given from above and not according to the depiction that the lower one made for himself. 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