It is a Mitzva to love and fear Hashem
How do we attain love and fear for Him? We a person contemplates His wonderous and many great deeds and creations and appreciates His infinate wisdom. We one ponders these things he will recoil in awe and fear of Hashem and how we are just dust, lowly creature with limited wisdom standing before Him.
Everything Hashem created in the world is divided into 3 categories:
1: Creations which are a combination of matter and form. They are constantly being created and ceasing to exist. Example being man/plants etc..
2: Creations which are a combination of matter and form but do not change from body to body. An example would be the stars.
3: Creations which have form but no matter at all. An example would be Angels who possess no body.
Since Angels have no body, what seperates them from each other? They are each below each other and depend on their existence from the Angel above it.
This term of being 'above" is not to be taken in the physical sense of height but rather in a spiritual sense of being higher in spirituality than the other.
The 10 levels and names of the Angels:
1: The Holy Chayot which are the heightest of them all
2: Ofanim
3: Er'elim
4: Chashmalim
5: Serafim
6: Malachim
7: Elohim
8: Bnei Elohim
9: Keruvim
10: Ishim
Above the Holy Chayot is the Chair of Glory. The Ishim were the Angles that gave prohpetic vision to our Holy prophets, they were called Ishim from the word Ish which means man as they were close to men.
All of these spiritual forms are alive. They know the Creator with a very immense knowledge, each according to its own level. Even the Holy Chayot can't conceive the true nature of Hashem since its intellectual capacity is limited but it knows more then the level below it does.
Everything from te first form to an ant came into being through the influence of His truth. He knows all and nothing is hidden from Him.
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