After utterly disagreeing with the dry commentary of the fourth and fifth aliyot, I was assisted in guidance regarding holy ascendancy - likely the if not a purpose of life - poetically stated in Bemidbar 21:18 - 19, specifically:
"Well that dig it did the princes, that excavate it did the nobles of the people, through a lawgiver with their staff(s), and from the wilderness, a gift, and from the gift, to the stream of G-d, and from the stream of G-d, up to the heights, and ffrom the heights, to the valley, which is in the field of Moav, at the top of the summit, looking out over the surface [face] of the wilderness."
This is just awesome - and a lesson, some say (and I extend), in the mystical journey of the soul in this life. The soul is born in royalty. It need law for structure and blossoming. With that, it emerges from the wilderness and becomes a gift (to its holder), at which point it can enter the eternal stream of holy nowness, a single point of all past, present, and future, in true holy unity, with no then or now, to the heights of that realization, and then back down, but even that down (the valley) is still a summit - the apex and the reaching of the purpose of life and the creation - looking out onto the chaos that still remains.
A remarkably beautiful and poetic section from Holy Torah.
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