1) When counting is good את שדרכו למנות it makes it eternal and infinite, and when counting is no good, כל שדרכו למנות, counting limits and reduces.
Counting lifts up and makes us whole.
Yidden are a half חצי צורה and they are made whole by doing their own maximum.
This raises their heads and lifts them to לפקודיהם a much higher level.