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Section 12 — Letter יב — The Vision: Part 2 ity within all the above parts of creation is rectified and rises to the ultimate root of its rectification for which it was created. And this is the aspect of the refinement and ascent of the holy sparks that comes through Israel's eating — as is known [see Likutay Torah of the Holy Ari, portion Eikev]. For initially the vitality was garbed, as it were, in the kelippos — namely in the physical substance of the food. And now that Israel ate it in holiness — the holy vitality in that food ascends to the root of its holiness and through it the glory of Hashem is also revealed. And from the physical substance of the food is produced excrement and waste that falls outward and downward. And there is much to elaborate here — how in every aspect and every level there is an aspect of outer and inner — the aspect of shell and fruit. This is the aspect of the wheat garbed in chaff and straw — and the Sages said by way of parable that the chaff and straw imagine themselves to be the essential thing and that all the farmer's labor is only for their sake — until the time and season of harvest comes and then it is apparent to all that the farmer's essential labor was only for the inner part — which is the wheat. And the chaff and straw are lost.