Bridging the Celestial Divide
The number 10 is featured twice prominently in the Torah: In the Creation narrative, where Ten Utterances are said by G-d to create the world ("Let there be light..."), and by the giving of the Ten Commandments.
Our task in this world is to bring the Ten Commandments and marry them to the Ten Utterances. Our mission is to reveal that the Divine, the transcendent oneness of the Creator - the Ten Commandments as it were - and show how it is one facet and one reality with the corporality and physicality of the world - the Ten Utterances that created the world.
The most physical is in truth a vessel for revealing G-dliness in the world. We must bridge the celestial divide and unite all reality as one.
-- Based on a talk given by The Lubavitcher Rebbe in Crown Heights in 1953
