GEN63 There is a piece of God, as it were, inside every human being.  This makes man special as a species and makes each person a special, unique, and important individual.  The Godliness inside every person gives him or her enormous value as, according to the Talmud, each person has incalculable worth, regardless of his or her identity or level of intelligence and accomplishment, since a single individual has the value of an entire world. Sanhedrin 37a.  This general awareness and knowledge should help every person think better of himself or herself.  Each individual is so special that he or she is just a little lower than the angels. Psalm 8:5-6.  But just one verse before this, man is described as “nothing.”  The Midrash Vayikra Rabbah 14a explains that when people have either a low or proper level of self-esteem, they should know that they have achieved a status so high that only angels are higher.  But if a person has excessive self-esteem and as a result thinks too highly of himself, God tells this person not to “think you are so great,” since God created the mosquito first.  AMJV 291