The fancy theological word for this, of course, is incarnation. What hits you when you let it, is that for the writer of the Hebrews, Jesus' Incarnation was an essential part of our salvation. The incarnation was not just a "means to the cross" where the "real" salvation happened. Jesus' incarnation was, in itself, part of God's great saving act. Jesus became a "partaker" of our human nature (2.14), so that we might become "partakers" of his heavenly nature (3:1, and 3:14... the same word, "partaker" is used there to describe our union with Jesus).
Like one of the ancient theologians put it, "He became like us, so that we might become like him".
This is deep stuff, of course, but not so deep after all. Because by the end of the discussion, the writer of Hebrews has gotten intensely practical. Because Jesus was made like us in every way (2:17), even to the point of being tempted like us in every way (4:15), he is now able to help us when we are tempted (2:18). One of the rubber-meets-the-road implications of the incarnation is that God knows what it is you're going through today... literally, he knows what it is you're going through ... because whatever it is, in the Incarnation of his son Jesus, he himself has gone through it. If the writer of Hebrews can be trusted, there is no corner of your life before God that Jesus himself hasn't taken on himself and lived through perfectly, to the point where he is now able to reach back, or down, or out, or whatever spatial metaphor you want to use, to reach after you, and draw you through it to himself.
May God will give us all both strength and peace in that knowledge this Christmas.
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