Monday Adar Sheini 29 5703
Chumash: Tazria, Sheini with Rashi.
Tehillim: 140-150.
Tanya: It is this (p. 191)...this was their Service. (p. 193).
My father said at a farbrengen: G-d created the universe and all physical objects Yeish Mei'ayin, something from nothing. Jews must transform the "something" into "nothing,"[1] transform the material into spiritual. [1]
The Avoda of turning the physical into spiritual and making the physical into an instrument for the spiritual, is a personal obligation. Every single person, individually, is required to do this.
Notes:
Meaning, "the intangible" in material terms - i.e. the spiritual. See Supplementary Footnotes, p. 127 in the printed version.