A person who has an ethical, poetic spirit constantly yearns to engage in general principles, because they contain all of the wealth that is divided afterwards to all of the individual details.
And out of the abundance that gathers in his soul due to the brightness of the general principles, a person can make use of the details clearly when they are called upon.
Contrarily, a person whose spirit is dry and this-worldly cannot bear the vast light in the general principles. He tends always to choose details for himself. And from the details, he comes to the general principles.
A person through whose soul the supernal light penetrates is aware of the entire process of the general principles: of how they proceed within the smallest details. Therefore, with all of his love for the principles his love for the details is not diminished, “and he lovingly derives from every crown upon a letter mounds upon mounds of laws.”
Kibbutzim Mi’ktav Yad Kodsho II, p.69
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