In the rabbinic mystical literature, however, the direction of movement is exclusively from earth to heaven;
Perhaps that is because when heaven came to earth many of them did not recognize the hour of their visitation. Rejecting the movement of heaven to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, unbelieving Jews were left with no mediation—no vital connection—to the God whose Son they despised. What began as God in search of man devolved into new traditions that outlined a new philosophy of man in search of God.
