The Holy Ari, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, taught that each of G‑d's creations, no matter how lowly, is sustained by a heavenly spark. That spark yearns to reconnect to its source—which can only happen when a human being will use it for a heavenly purpose.

If so, why does the world fight back against our every effort to rescue it, to reveal its true meaning?

It doesn’t. Nothing stands in our way. A created being cannot oppose its own destiny.

The resistance is an illusion of our limited perception.

It is only our own sense of self, the only free agent. It is when we say, “I will do this mitzvah. I will redeem the divine.” When we inject our ego into our mission in life.

With that "I," we blind ourselves from perceiving mystery.