On the other hand, G‑d Himself (as opposed to His sovereignty) is so exalted, so sublime over the entirety of Creation, that He does not "lower" Himself to relate to individual things; to cause one object to exist as a stone, for example, and another as a human being. To G‑d, Who is so sublime, there is no difference between a person and a stone, after all, for He utterly transcends them both. This transcendent element of G‑d over Creation, called "Sovev Kol Almin", literally "surrounds all realms", may be compared to the manner in which the bodily presence of the king in the analogy encompasses everyone and everything equally, whether they be nobility, peasant, stone, etc. (Note well that this transcendent level of G‑dliness is "transcendent" only in the sense that it is equally present throughout all Creation, but not in the sense that it is not found at all within Creation - for indeed, there is no place which is devoid of G‑d. As in the above analogy, all of Creation, from the most sublime spiritual realms to the lowest of the low, is in the "presence of the King", so to speak, which encompasses everything equally.)
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