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In the beginning there was light. According to most Biblical commentaries, well before heaven and earth were created, while the cosmos was still tohu vavohu a morass of chaos and void, the first thing G-d created was light. Because the most important thing in life, actually, is light. Light is the source of our inspiration, it is what makes us happy. There can be no question that the sometimes dour national characteristic which seems intrinsic to the inhabitants of the British isles has more to do with the cloudy weather than any other factor, in the same way that the natural effervescence of, say, the Italians, can largely be attributed to the unending sunlight.