GEN707 Being modeled after the sefirot [per Kabbalah, Divine emanations through which God is revealed and sustains the world-- AJL] , the human body can be a gate-way to the divine.  Contemplation of the human body and its actions not only grants one knowledge of all worlds – of all dimensions of existence, but also indicates how physical actions can influence what happens in these worlds, including the divine world of the sefirot.  In this typically cabalistic view, each human action, each physical gesture, has immense implications and influence.  The physical life of the human being is therefore related not merely to the individual or social realm, but to the disposition of all that exists.  From this perspective, the actions of the human body have transcendent and theurgic implications, effecting the Godhead itself.  In a typical mystical text, the Hasidic master, Elimelekh of Lizensk, observed: The main reason man was created was to rectify his Root in the upper worlds.  It is written, For in the image of God, God made humans” [this verse]. God made humans in the form of the structure that exists on high, making each human being a precise counterpart of it … The main human task is to rectify the divine structure (shiur komah) … Whenever a person sanctifies himself through a certain part of the body, that person rectifies the universes that correspond to that particular limb. Through moral virtue and observance of the commandments, one provides a means for each limb of the body to articulate the spiritual through the physical, to make manifest the divine image embossed upon the human body. SHER20C 17