… and the angels live upstairs

B"H

Whom of us, at least once in a while, doesn't imagine an angel coming and solving all one's personal problems ?
Angels have a task and help humans. Guardian Angels for example and wouldn't we be glad meeting our own Guardian Angel who is supposed to protect us all the time.

Angels are already mentioned in the Torah, the Talmud, in the Zohar and the Midrash. The Baal Shem Tov said that the angels are sustained through our prayers to G - d.
Anyway, how does this work ? Sustained through our prayers ?
Don't they have the power to live alone ? Why do angels need us humans ?

The conclusion is that this concept is only an illusion, as the angels themselves are nothing more than G - d's garments.
According to the Baal Shem Tov and some other sources, the angels are part of G - d. Him acting with different powers just like the Sefirot (G - d's attributes).

On the other hand, the Talmud as well as the Mezritcher Maggid (Rabbi Dov Baer Friedman) state that angels don't have Free Will as we humans do. Each of them only has one task and fulfills the will of G - d. And angel cannot change his task or interfere in a different way.

We, on the other hand, have a Free Will and thus, have a choice in life. Furthermore, the Maggid said that humans are even on a higher level than angels, as their souls (Neshamot) come from the world of Beriah. The angels only come from Yetzirah, one level below Beriah.

The concept of angels in Judaism is anything but easy to understand, and there are quite a few opinions. Most commentators say that when it says in the Torah that an angel spoke to Moshe etc., it was really G - d who spoke. G - d on a certain level and revealing one of His attributes. Usually people, myself included, get confused when it says that an angel doesn't have Free Will or only has one task. Then I do think that certain angels do actually exit. Some kind of a spiritual being.

And when the Maggid of Mezritch claims that the angels come from the World of Yetzirah - there are also angels in the upper world of Beriah where our souls come from. Only the highest World of Atzilut (above Beriah) is pure thought where only G - d "exists".
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Remark: Please take into consideration that all the above mentioned upper worlds are only spiritual entities and not at all physical.