Worthy is he who welcomes visitors with perfect will, as though he is receiving the face of the Shekhinah, ‘for by the measure with which a person measures, so do they measure esteem him.’xxixBT Sotah 8b
Rabbi El’azar, his son, came and kissed his hands, and all the companions prostrated before him and said to him: ‘If we had not come to the world except to hear these words, it would have been enough.’
Meanwhile, behold Elijah the prophet had descended from above, with many hosts of souls, and many angels around him, and with the Higher Shekhinah as a diadem upon all of them, ‘a crown upon the head of every righteous-one’.xxxBT Megillah 15b