Peace in the World

The lesson on June 28, 2004

Hopes for peace

When those conditions brought society a great deal of strife and endangered the well-being of society, there came about the “peace-makers”.

There are two groups that make up society. Previously, we have discussed the fact that there are people who are successful and wish to use others in order to achieve their goals, as well as people who, by their nature, are not successful and cannot do anything other than to serve those who are able to control them.

However, although the people who are smart, skillful, cunning, crafty and refined really do have a great qualitative power; nevertheless, there are few of them in comparison to those who are stupid, weak, simple and so on. A certain compensation occurs here, because if the quantity and quality of one group are not balanced with the quantity and quality of the other group, then the imbalance between these two parts of society can lead to bad consequences.

For this reason, it is in the best interest of both parts of society (both the weak majority and the strong minority) to preserve a certain balance between each other and to use each group for whatever it is good at doing. Thus, various theories and practices emerge in society, that relate to the way society must exist and the kind of relationship these two groups should have with each other. Socialism, communism, feudalism, and so on; all of these are ultimately based only on the juxtaposition of these two groups.

Where do the various formations in society come from? The egoistic desire increases and, correspondingly, there also occurs a relative increase of the disproportion between the huge number of people who are stupid, weak and lazy, and the small amount of those who are strong, resourceful, deft and intelligent. (The egoism of people who are intelligent, deft and strong increases qualitatively, and this does not happen as much with those who are stupid and lazy.) This is why the dissonance, disproportion and imbalance between these two groups constantly increases, and a different formula of their correspondence becomes necessary. This is called “formation”, or “the social system”.

When those conditions brought society a great deal of strife and endangered the well-being of society, there came about the “peace-makers”. They have assumed control and power in society and renewed the social life on a new basis, which they thought was true, but provide for the peaceful existence of society.

However, this is, of course, only coexistence and nothing more. This has nothing to do with peace in the world, or with friendship and love. Simply, we have to exist together due to necessity, because one group will not survive without the other.

But most of peace-makers (who were trying to create a correspondence between the two parts of society), which spring up after every dispute, naturally come from among the destructors, meaning from those who seek the truth and support the principle, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours.”

Where do all of these peace-makers come from? They come from the group of the strong, and not from the weak. The weak, even when they rebel and organize a revolution, afterwards, again fall into indifference and weakness. The strong, on the other hand, undertake something when they try to clean things up and create some kind of a correspondence between the two groups. However, when they undertake any actions with regard to the weak majority, it still comes from their necessity: “yours is yours and mine is mine”. In other words, it comes from their strong egoistic desire.

This is because they are the courageous ones in society, called heroes, who are willing to throw their own lives before them, and the lives of the entire collective if they do not agree with their opinion.

We can see this very clearly in our leaders. They totally disregard the well being of society, but think only about their own, personal position. They need honors, respect, fame, popularity; and, most importantly, power. It does not matter what will happen, even if everyone were to die and the State itself would cease to exist. This does not matter. The most important thing is their “I”.

This desire is the most important thing to them. If a person has the desire to attain such a high post as, for example, Prime Minister; then this is the greatest desire in a person at this moment, otherwise he will not attain that post. This means that this desire must prevail above all the other desires in this person. Thus, it is natural that he cannot take any other parameters into consideration except his power; and everything else is totally unimportant for him. He can speak all kinds of beautiful words, but it is impossible for any other calculation to have a voice inside of him.

For this reason, it is necessary to appoint an entire Parliament to safeguard against this kind of a person, or some kinds of committees and so on. One person cannot govern, because his entire nation will mean nothing to him in comparison with the possibility of losing power: he would be willing to do anything for it. What will happen to the people is not important. This is the natural result that comes from a single strong desire.

This happens every time a single strong desire speaks within a person. He really proves that it is the strongest desire in him when he realizes it, because he is being controlled only by it. This is why we should not criticize the great people of this world for the fact that they are willing to do anything in order to manifest their egoistic desire for power.

When the minority is in control of the egoistic desires for power, fame and wealth, they are willing to do anything because the majority does not mean anything to them. If they did not need the majority to realize their ideas and desires, then they would be willing to annihilate them.

Whereas the constructors in society, who are the men of mercy and charity, who care for their own lives and for the well-being of the collective, refuse to risk their lives in order to impose their opinion on the collective. Because of that, they are always on the weak side, called the faint-hearted and the cowardly. It is hence obvious that the hand of the brave profligates will always be on top, and it is natural that the peace-makers will come from among the destructors and not from the constructors.

It is very interesting to watch when all of the Prime Ministers and the heads of governments get together. They are really the sharks of our world, that is, the most harmful, the most horrible and the most egoistic people. However, they are also the strongest.

Thus we see how the peace our generation so yearns for is worthless both from the perspective of the subject and the perspective of the predicate (which comes from the destructors of peace).

For the subjects, who are the peace-makers of our time, and indeed at any time, meaning those who have the power to make peace in the world, are forever made of the human substance we call “destructors,” for they are seekers of the truth, meaning to establish the world on the attribute of “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours.”

What is the meaning of “yours is yours”? They do not want this to be the case either, but they say, “Each person deserves to have what is within his power, knowledge and abilities”. The reason a person deserves it is because he has that knowledge, power and abilities.

It is natural that those people defend their opinion firmly, to the point of risking their own lives and the life of the entire collective.

Why are they willing to risk even their own life? Because the most important thing for them is to carry out their huge desire. If you say to a simple person: “You can’t do this”, then he will say, “Well, since I can’t, I cant”; and he will agree. Why? Because what else can he do? He does not have a strong desire. On the other hand, if a strong desire speaks within a person, even if it involves a risk to his life, nevertheless, in this case all of the other desires are not taken into consideration. This is clear.

And that is what gives them the power to always have the upper hand over the human substance called constructors, the seekers of mercy and charity, who are willing to give up of their own for the good of others, in order to save the world, because they are the faint-hearted and the cowardly.

If their desire were to increase, then they would become the same as the destructors. However, they do not have such a big desire, thus they are cowardly and faint-hearted, and thus they are the constructors rather than the destructors.

It turns out that seeking truth and the destruction of the world are one and the same, and the desire for mercy and the construction of the world are one and the same too. Therefore, we should not hope from the destructors to establish the peace in the world.

The strong in this world will not establish peace. So, what should we do, since they will always be in power in all the nations everywhere? The world does not have any hope for peace, since it will always be headed by people who consider power and fame to be more important than all of humanity. They cannot even take it into consideration, and we cannot demand this from them. They are created this way, and this is why they reach that kind of state and that kind of level.

And it is hopeless to hope for peace from the predicate, meaning by the conditions of peace itself. That is because the right conditions for the well-being of the individual and the collective, according to the criterion of truth that the peace-makers so desire, have not yet been established. And it is a must that there will always be a large unsatisfied minority in society, as we have shown the weakness of the truth above. This minority will therefore always remain a ready and willing fuel for the new quarrelsome people, and the new peace-makers that will always follow.

Thus, egoism and the strongest desire to experience pleasure will always devour those who have a weak desire or egoism. This is the law of nature. In addition, it is natural that those who are more egoistic and strong will always win. This is why there is no hope that sometime in the future, as a result of some kind of progress, we will naturally come to a “lovely” change in the government. This is impossible.

However, as the egoism of people who are in power increases, so does the egoism in others who surround them. Once upon a time there was one king, and he was surrounded by stupid and ignorant people. Now, however, there is a Prime Minister, but he is also surrounded by intelligent people. Ultimately, the “Ratzon Lekabel” or egosim, has increased, like dough on yeast. It increases according to a type of pyramid: not only the top exists, but also something around it. Thus, those who are around it are interested in establishing some kind of a balance of this single force. This is why there is a constitution, limited monarchies, and so on; especially in our time.

All of this is being done only in order to balance that huge egoism, which all of the people in government have. In addition, it is natural that each one of them (regardless of the form in which he presents himself to society: liberal, democrat, conservative, fascist, or communist) has only one thing that speaks within him: a single huge egoism, which does not have the slightest care about the way it will be in power.

In this case, if power is selected in a natural way, then elections will never result in the rule by people who value societal benefit over their personal egoistic goal. This comes from egoism’s very nature, in an absolutely natural way. Thus, it is useless for us to hope and think that change for the better can take place in a natural way.

The well-being of a certain collective and the well-being of the whole world

Do not be surprised if I mix together the well-being of a particular collective with the well-being of the whole world, because indeed we have already come to such a degree that the whole world is considered one collective and one society. Meaning, because each person in the world sucks his life’s marrow and his livelihood from all the people in the world, he is coerced to serve and care for the well-being of the whole world.

Unwillingly and, of course, egoistically, we are becoming convinced that we depend on everyone. God forbid an explosion will happen: then everyone will suffer. Or, let us consider oil. They say that the port where oil is acquired is only one or two square kilometers in size. This is the entire area where all of the tubes and pipes are concentrated, which are connected to tankers from which they get oil and on which, ultimately, practically the whole world depends. However much we may hate that country, from which all of the terrorists get their sustenance and so on; but try to destroy it, and what will happen to you?

Ultimately, it turns out that all the people in the world are unwillingly connected to each other. Whether they love or do not love each other, nevertheless, they are already beginning to be obligated to such an extent, and to be so necessary to each other, that we can no longer escape from this fact. That is, we are being forced to reveal the connection between ourselves through the method of suffering.

We have proven above that the total subordination of the individual to the collective is like a small wheel in a machine. He draws his life and his happiness from that collective and therefore the well-being of the collective and his own well-being are one and the same, and vice versa.

Personal well-being depends on the social, that is, it is determined by the social well-being and influences it, because the sum of the particulars comprises the society.

Therefore, to the extent that a person is enslaved to himself, he necessarily becomes enslaved to the collective as well (this depends on the person).

The greater the egoism is, the greater is the dependency on a wider circle of people around you, that is, on the whole world. Today, I depend on China (goods are manufactured there) and on Ceylon; on America and South America. Is there even a place that I do not depend on? If we look at the map of nations from which the government purchases, then we will see 100-150 countries on it.

Who needs this, and what for? Is it really possible that we cannot live without this? We cannot. Egoism has increased so much that it demands this kind of delivery of fulfillments, and thus the whole world depends on everyone. This is not completely revealed yet. Soon it will become revealed to such an extent that we will be afraid for something to happen to any nation in the world. At the same time, we will hate them terribly. There will be no possibility of getting rid of any of these contradictory relationships with each other.

So, what kind of peace can there be in the world?

This is the same as between the two parts of society, the weak majority and the strong minority, who hate each other and try to suck all of each other’s blood out; but they need each other and are ultimately obligated to take care of each other. What else can they do?

And what is the extent of the above collective? That is determined by the perimeter of the drawing of the individual from them. For example, in the earlier historic eras, that perimeter was only the perimeter of one family, meaning that the individual did not need any aid but only from his own family members, at which time he certainly didn’t have to be subordinated to anyone but his own family.

Man used to gather various roots and berries around him, and hunt animals that lived close to him. When he was sick, his family helped him get better: they found healing herbs nearby. He did not have a need for anything. According to his small desire, man was limited by his farm, his village and his family.

In later times (that is, when the egoistic desire increased. We must always look at history as growth or increase, or the blooming of greater and greater egoistic desires in man), the families gathered in towns and states, and the individual became enslaved to his town.

The reason for this is that his huge desire, in comparison to desires in previous times, already demanded to be served by many other people. He, in turn, gave whatever was his own to many people: not only to members of his family, but also to complete strangers. That is, there emerged an understanding of the fact that I depend on strangers or other people.

Later on when the towns and states became countries,…

The internal egoistic desire forced them to unite with an even greater amount of people. Why? Because new areas became necessary to each person’s desire, as well as the subordination of other nations to themselves. An army and a government were created, and so on. This is how nations came about. Everything originates from the size of the egoistic desire present in a person and in society as a whole.

…the individual was supported by all his countrymen for the happiness of his life. Therefore he became enslaved by the country through all the people in the country.

However, we can see that different countries did not really need each other until the middle ages. Only beginning with the middle ages the era of great discoveries came about. Why? Did they not want this before then? Before then this was not necessary. If everything is good, if I am satisfied with what is around me, then why should I look for some America? Isn’t that right?

When the egoistic desire increased, it then became necessary to fulfill it, and that’s when they began to search. This cost a great deal of money; in fact, half of a nation’s resources were spent on this. These kinds of enterprises were sponsored by very rich people, it was done with great risk, and the ultimate outcome was unknown. That is, the economic enterprise of conquering new lands was being realized in order to satisfy egoism, but it was dictated by the egoism’s necessity. Nothing can be done about this.

In our time, a very close cooperation is beginning to form between countries. For example, there is a common market. Although there exist great disagreements between nations, nevertheless, it is impossible to do anything about it because they depend on each other too much. This is why boundaries are destroyed in a natural way. Now, even though there are political boundaries, there are no longer economic boundaries. The whole world depends on the stock markets in Tokyo, Shanghai, New York. Everyone depends on everyone. There is also an additional dependency due to ecology, and so on: we do not even imagine the extent to which everything is interconnected.

Everything comes down to the fact that it is specifically the huge egoism that reveals the common Kli. When egoism is at a small level, the common Kli of Adam Rishon becomes revealed on the level of Nefesh; however, its separate parts are not connected with each other. When it egoistically becomes revealed, to a greater and greater extent; it does not become revealed in quantity.

We say that the amount of souls in the world is always the same. Once upon a time there were 8 million people; and now there are 8 billion: this does not matter. These 8 billion point to the might of egoism present in each person. When egoism grows from its “zero” state into the first, second, third and then fourth; it is the same egoism that is being exposed, except not in the previous quality, but in a deeper quality. This forces egoism to flow into a greater amount of particular souls, because it becomes impossible for each soul to realize its immense egoism, both in quantity and quality. A person simply cannot do this in his life.

Thus, a big egoism is point-like, or very fine. Before, it was so-to-say, smaller, but wider. Now, on the other hand, it is higher, but finer. However, in principle, it is the same, except that we can see that there becomes more people, or “realizers” of this egoism. This happens because it has become much more mighty.

Before, there used to be a universal specialist: a philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and chemist; all together in one person, he was an entire encyclopedia. Today, however, there is physical chemistry, chemical physics, and so on. The same thing is happening with the realization of the common egoism. However, the realization of the fact that each person depends on the whole world is achieved specifically in this way.

However, the realization of the fact that the whole world depends on each person is not present in the world yet. Each person is already beginning to fear for his existence with regard to the whole world. That is, there is fear in us. Although it is personal fear for oneself, nevertheless, it is greater than it was before. This is why there is a great uncertainty in people today, that is, an uncertainty about why they have more worries and the absence of safety? A person did not feel this way before, when he was living in a thick forest together with an animal that could have torn him apart at any moment.

That person felt more confident than someone today, because today a person feels more dependent on others. Before, he did not feel this way; he knew: there is my home, my abode, a few pieces of meat, firewood, my wife and children; everything was in its place. Today, neither his well-being nor his life depend on what he has at home. Life depends on reasons that are very removed, and for this reason, uncertainty increases and the world becomes immersed in depression.

And although this is in fact known and felt, still the people in the world have not yet grasped it properly. And why? Because such is the conduct of the development in nature, that the act comes before the understanding. And only actions will prove and push humanity forward.

Today and generally always, we do not know how we will act, what formation will come to replace the previous, and how society will change in the next instant. Baal HaSulam says that ultimately, we are already facing the finished phenomenon, and only later, by the result, do we see what happened.

We do not control these processes. As long as we act from our own egoism, which was naturally laid in us, we, naturally, cannot control any processes. It is the egoism in us that controls us. Meaning, the Creator, who created egoism and feeds it, developing it at His own speed and His formula of development, is ultimately controlling us. We are like puppets who personify all the events through, supposedly, our own participation. We do not even participate in this, rather, we merely automatically carry out egoism’s orders, which awaken in us each time.

Question: If we depend on the whole world then, correspondingly, our spiritual development also depends on the whole world. In this case, what should we do now: wait for a person in China to begin studying Kabbalah?… How can we have an influence; how are we, right now, able to accelerate our own and the common development?

Right now we are not talking about us, but about society and the world, and about the nature of egoism. If you want to take a spiritual instrument, which is something the world does not have, and begin to act with it in our world; then this is a completely different means and a completely different order.

We will not talk about this yet. We still have to study this system a little more, this connection in which we are in our world, that is, in our natural state or the egoistic state. Then we will study what we are able to do if we use the altruistic Kli. Maybe we will find that it is the worst thing that can be imagined. Maybe it is better to do this slowly, through suffering, the way it is happening now (it does not matter: what can we do?). That is, to unwillingly and egoistically develop: wherever you go is where you will go. What else can you do? This is the way we are.

Along the course of the entire history of mankind, we see that all historical events passed through humanity in a completely uncontrolled way. For example, there were many people before the Second World War who knew what it was all leading to and that this was going to happen. This was revealed to them ten or even fifteen years before the beginning of the Second World War. At the same time, it was clear that this is irreversible, that this process is happening and it is impossible to stop it. No one is asking you whether you can or cannot participate in it, rather, you will be forced to play your role in it.

So, after all, maybe this is preferable to the instrument that is offered us from above? We must sort this out. We should not immediately grab on to the Creator’s offer. If we grab on to it just like that, then we may not be able to control it. We must become convinced of its vital and urgent necessity, the extent to which we must realize it, as well as the fact that everything else is unimaginably bad. Today, we do not feel ourselves to be in such a horrible and hopeless state: after all, we are existing and are even smiling.

Question: Can we use the name “truth” for the real relationships between the souls, which the Creator demands of us, but which we are not able to realize?

In reality, “truth” can be the name of the relationships that exists between us right now: “yours is yours and mine is mine”. How should we juxtapose these truths? Each level has its own one. We only see that we will not be able to correct ourselves with the help of this category, and we will not be able to correct the world.

There is no absolute truth, since I am not able to adapt it within myself. This is not because it does not exist, but the demand for absolute truth immediately causes demolition, since “yours is yours and mine is mine”. If we do not exchange with each other then both parts, “the destructors” and the “constructors”, will perish.

Further on, Baal HaSulam talks precisely about this.

In Practical Life the Four Attributes Contradict one another

If the above practical difficulties, which disturb us helpless people on our way, are not enough, we have in addition, a further mix-up and great battle of the psychological predispositions, meaning the attributes themselves within each and everyone of us individually, and in contradiction from one person to another. For the above four attributes, mercy, truth, justice, and peace, which were divided in the nature of people, whether by development or by upbringing, they in and of themselves stand in contradiction to one another.

Ultimately, all together they form a Kli. However, since we are not in the corrected state, these parts or categories became separated, and are supposedly not gathered together in a mutual yearning or mutual intention towards the Creator. This is why each one pulls in a different direction.

And if we take for example the attribute of mercy in an abstract form, we find its governance to contradict all other attributes, meaning that by the laws of the rule of mercy there is no place for the appearance of the other attributes in our world.

When each manifestation of the desire’s form is by itself (whether it is mercy, truth, justice, or peace) then it, of course, wants to suppress all the others. If all the others were gathered together then they would absolutely contradict each other and there would be no connection between them. The common vector, or the connection between them, is achieved by the common yearning towards the exterior or the Creator, rather than towards fulfilling egoism by one of these categories.

What is the attribute of mercy? Our sages defined it as: “what’s mine is yours and what’s your is yours”. And if all the people in the world were to behave that way, it would cancel all the glory of the attribute of truth and judgment, because if each and everyone would be naturally willing to give everything he has to his fellow man and take nothing of another for himself, then the whole interest in lying to one another would disappear, and there would be no room to speak of the attribute of truth whatsoever, because true and false are relative - and if there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no concept of truth. (Everything is built on opposition. You must reveal the attribute that is opposite to the Creator, and then correct it with the help of intention.) Needless to say that the other attributes that are there only to strengthen the attribute of truth because of its weakness, would also be cancelled.

Truth is defined in the words: “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is yours." That contradicts the attribute of mercy and cannot altogether tolerate it because in truth, it is unjust to labor and strain for another, because besides causing his friend to fail, he accustoms him to exploit his fellow man. Thus, truth dictates that every person treasure his own assets for a time of need so he will not have to be a burden on his fellow man.

We can see what happens to society when mercy is manifested instead of truth. Millions of people immediately appear, who want to receive social help and not work. Social help kills people. We see what was done in our little country. There is no greater detriment for the country than the one that was caused by the service of societal help, because in 20-30 years it transformed the country into a society of loafers.

In this case, a person is able to not work and to simply receive some kind of a minimum, and he feels good. In addition, he works somewhere “on the black market”. This way, they absolutely perverted a person’s relation to society, to himself, and to his responsibilities to society. Socialists did the exact opposite through their, supposed, ideals; because they needed them only to attain power. That’s all.

Moreover, there is not a person without relatives and heirs that in fact, should come before others, because nature dictates that he who gives his property to others (who are not his relatives) lies to his relatives and natural heirs by not leaving them anything.

“Truth” is a very harsh, precise and necessary category. It correlates with a person’s egoism and efforts. All the other categories do not correlate directly with a person, that is, they are, in reality, unjust.

After all, what does truth say? It says, “However much you have earned is yours. You owe to the people who are close to you”. What does “owe” mean? This means: in correspondence with one’s natural desire. In other words, truth says, “If you act with correspondence to your nature or the egoistic desire that is present within you, then you are acting correctly”. It is really this way: if someone ideally acted with correspondence to the attribute of truth, then that person would never make mistakes. Do animals make mistakes? No, they do not make mistakes. They act only with correspondence to the egoistic instinct that is present within them. Again, only with correspondence to their egoism.

Since a person is not able to realize the category of “truth” and other categories emerge within him (such as justice and peace), thus problems emerge and we wind up with a farce, and we do not know how to work with them. Truth is something we would have been able to work with in a precise way, but it does not give us the possibility to exist: we would exterminate each other.

This means that a person is specifically placed within these boundaries. He finds himself in these “scissors”, meaning that he is unwillingly obligated not to act in correspondence to egoism, and this is opposite to all of the rest of nature. Our entire upbringing, as well as all of our systems of support which we build around ourselves, are necessary only in order to compensate for the lack of the possibility of working with egoism in reality. It is impossible to work with the category of “truth”.

The Attribute of Singularity Within the Egoism Acts For Ruin and Destruction

And the truth is that the root of this whole disorder within us is no more than the attribute of singularity that is within each and every one of us whether it is more or less.

There exist truth, mercy, justice and peace; and this is all good. However, why do we work with them incorrectly and why do we realize them incorrectly? Where is the problem: in the categories themselves?

No, the problem is something else. It lies in the fact that each one of us perceives himself to be the only one, and for this reason we use any one of the above categories with correspondence to the perceptions of singularity that each person has. If I did not perceive this singularity then, probably, I would be able to use the categories differently.

And although we have clarified that it (the attribute of “singularity”) comes from a sublime reason that that attribute extends to us directly from the Creator, who is single in the world, and the root of all creations, still out of the sensation of singularity, when it sits within our narrow egoism,… then this is bad.

That is to say, singularity is neither good nor bad when it is all by itself. If it unites with the direction “away from oneself” or altruism, then this is the greatest quality that can exist. On the other hand, if it unites with egoism, then this is the most faulty thing that can possibly exist, because a person who has the perception of singularity together with egoism: this person is simply a maniac. Usually this kind of person shouts that he is the Mashiah (the Messiah). Why “Mashiah”? Because the attribute of singularity comes from the Creator, and that person is opposite to this. This means that he egoistically shouts, “I am the Mashiah!”

…still out of the sensation of singularity, when it sits within our narrow egoism, its action becomes ruin and destruction and the source of all the ruins that were and will be in the world.

And indeed there is not a single person in the world who is free from it – from the perception of singularity (each one of us perceives himself as the only one, because the light that emanates from the Creator created the Kli), and all the divisions are only in the way it is used, or the realization of individuality that is perceived by each person, …

Each person want to realize himself. There is something within me that I must build, realize and sculpt. I, personally, must appear this way.

…whether for the desires of the heart, or for rule, or for honor - that by that, people are different to one another.

I want to be wealthy, I want to be the most intelligent, or I want to be the greatest one, or the most famous, or the one who gets the most pleasure from the animal pleasures; it does not matter. “I want. I must be the only one in this regard”: this is the only way a person feels.

But the equal side in all the people of the world is that each and every one of us stands ready to abuse and exploit all the people for his own private benefit,…

Singularity and the egoistic desire speak within us, and we are willing to use any of the categories in order to realize those attributes. However, the perception of the neighbor also speaks within us; it is expressed by the fact that I am internally willing to use everyone for my goal.

This does not exist with animals: they do not subordinate one another. As we can see, the maximum that occurs with them is the fight for the female or for something else, and then they leave each other in peace. There is no such thing, that one of them would constantly rule over another one.

The yearning to use others for the sake of personal gain is awakened only on the human level. This comes from the perception of the neighbor, that is, from the fact that we exist as a consequence of the breaking of the common soul.

…with every means possible, without taking into consideration that he is going to build himself through the ruin of his friend.

This relates to any person who rises above others. It is impossible to be bigger or higher than someone else without building that elevation, even a millimeter high, on the demolition of another. The elevation of one person always occurs at the expense of demolishing another.

And the allowance that each of us gives himself according to his chosen direction - that the desire is the root of the mind, and not the mind the root of desire, does not matter here.

In the beginning, the desire determines everything. Later, you invent the reason for having done something. This no longer has any importance, as the saying goes: first we will do, and then we will find a way to justify it.

And the truth is that the greater and more outstanding the person, so is his attribute of singularity greater and finer.

This is the reason that he wants to subordinate and use everyone for his own sake, to an even greater extent than others do. Besides justice, truth, peace and mercy, we also contain the attribute of singularity, which compels us to use everything at our disposal only for our own benefit and for harm to others. Why “for harm to others”? Because my level is measured with regard to others, and the greater the difference is between us, the greater is the pleasure and fulfillment that I experience. My fulfillment is not absolute; rather, it is relative: it is in relation to those around me. This is why the attribute of singularity leads to the absolute opposition between people.

However, the property of singularity is the only thing that comes to us directly from the Creator. All the other categories of desire present in us are built by the light. The light is primary, and the Kli is secondary. The attribute of singularity comes directly from the Creator, and not through the building of the Kli by the light. It is like a copy of Him: He is the only one and I am the only one. For this reason, I am able to correctly realize this attribute, which was directly received from the Creator; that is, I can realize it the same way as it exists in Him. It exists within me in the opposite state because it becomes imprinted in my egoism, but it nevertheless exists as an imprint from Him, or from this attribute that He has.

If I use the altruistic intention, that is, if I neutralize my egoism, then this property of singularity will immediately make me equivalent to the Creator. This is because it is opposite within me only because it has sunk into egoism. However, if I neutralize the egoism, or this sheet onto which the property of oneness was imprinted; or even if I alter it in the opposite direction, for the sake of bestowal, then this property will immediately create an object of the Creator within me. This is the reason for its presence in us.

Question: How can we accelerate society’s realization of the fact that the world depends specifically on each person?

This can only be done through a bad method; it is impossible to do through a good method. A good method is if we spread the Science of Kabbalah to such an extent that people will think and hear about it more, and will study and understand it. To the extent that a person will hear even a little, will think a little, will read something somewhere just a little bit, even if he does not want to, but he still somehow catches a corner of it; to this extent we will evoke the surrounding light on us, and to this extent the light will show us the insignificance and faultiness of our current state.

Then we will no longer have to descend to the realization of evil at its collapse. It is sufficient for us to perceive that this is a collapse already on our current level, without having to descend; to perceive that this is the end in comparison to that light. Everything is measured relatively. If we evoke a greater emanation on ourselves, that is, a greater intensity of the surrounding spiritual light, then, right now, we will perceive ourselves as if we fell into the very last state. This way, we will be able to ascend.

However, we still have to perceive that last state within ourselves, that is, the state of total insignificance, faultiness, weakness, and the lack of any way out. We have to perceive this. However, we can either perceive this through incredible suffering, or we can see this in the light ahead-of-time, when a good goal shines for us. That is, it simultaneously gives us hope and gives us strength.

Nevertheless, I will feel that I am in a terrible state. However, this is equivalent to the state of a sick person, to whom it was revealed that he has a serious illness, but also that it is curable. He already sees himself after the surgery and after all of the treatments. This is the difference; that is, a person begins to experience everything differently and advances more realistically.

This is why, in our world, everything depends only on the spreading of our science as widely as possible. Only on this, it does not even matter how people will react to it. Its study to any degree will ultimately evoke a huge surrounding light within that huge number of people.

Question: What should be done in order for this to happen, besides that which we are currently doing with regard to spreading Kabbalah?

You are before large and specific masses of people. I think that even there, there is, of course, something that can be done and is being done. I think that the spreading must happen through people.

You are saying that they do not hear and are not located in this. They are just people who come to a concert and are in a specific state. Maybe they would appear differently in a different state. However, even in this case it is still possible to "turn them on" and to do something like a mass training. We should think about this: how to do this. This is not easy, maybe experts are needed; and it can be done this way.

However, we are speaking through science, because that is where people who think are , and they are closer to the questions about the meaning of life. We cannot offer people a universal remedy, we cannot tell them that with the help of Kabbalah they will make more money and their health will improve, they will find a good spouse, will win the lotto or something else like this. We cannot tell people that they will feel happy in this world. A person cannot feel happy by fulfilling himself by anything in this world, and a person cannot become fulfilled by this world at all. He is created only for the purpose of becoming fulfilled by the spiritual world or the Creator. The light fills the Kli, and nothing else does.

We can only give a person the suggestion to exit into the following fulfillment or the following desire. Who can you offer this to? Only to someone who already has this embryo or the point in the heart, that is, some kind of striving upwards. That is why we cannot go out to great masses of people. We go out only to those who are searching for the meaning of life, but are not looking for the answer to the question: “why do I earn little, and why do I feel worse than everyone else?”. Rather, they are searching in a more exalted meaning of the word, that is, a person is looking for the purpose. In other words, he is no longer interested in how to live through this life, but whether there is a general meaning to life and so on.

Of course, our studies and our suggestions are intended for a small amount of people. Every year, naturally, there is more and more of them, but still, every time we will encounter the same problem. Although you can speak to a wide audience, only a specific and narrow circle of society will “pick up” what you are saying.

As a rule, these are the destructors, that is, those who have an immense egoism and who have already arrived at: “mine is mine and I do not want anything more”. The attribute of individuality speaks to such an extent that it says: “the Creator and I”, or “I instead of the Creator”. To this extent. They are the people we are speaking to, because they are already ready for realization.

When we will talk about the use of singularity as the means of developing the individual and society, then we will clarify how this can be done.

Question: What difference does the motivation make, which brought a person under the correcting light (Ohr Makif)?

If a person does not have the necessary motivation then he simply does not feel this light, that is, he is not located in the correct direction. Put a cat next to me and I will teach or, for example, listen to a symphony and suffer great agonies; while the cat will sleep next to me. It does not have the same motivation that I have; his motivation is to eat and sleep.

The cat does not have a point in the heart, and the same thing happens with a person. Can you say that everyone has this point in the heart? There is a concealed point, or one that has not been revealed. However, we need people who have the motivation, that is, people whose point in the heart has already come through.

Question: How can we overcome this contradiction that, on one hand, it is necessary to spread Kabbalah as widely as possible in order for as many people as possible to find out about it; and on the other hand, the fact that we can speak only to a very narrow and specific circle of people?

This is really a big problem, and I hope that we will solve it soon.

We must prepare popular books for the general circle of people; these books will lay everything out very clearly and in a popular way. However, they will still say the truth, rather than entice people by giving them various magical means (in Hebrew this is called Sgulot). We cannot promise a person that, by studying Kabbalah, he will feel good in this life.

When I say “in this life”, I mean his regular fulfillments. If something hurts me, then the pain will not stop because of this. If I have a problem with my kids and wife, they will not get better from this, and may even get worse. If I have a problem at work or in the bank, nothing will change from this as well. We can only say to a person: “You will receive fulfillment, you will feel happy and fulfilled, but through totally different means, in a different way and in a different volume: you will understand all of this differently”.

We cannot speak to the desire a person has today. If his desire today is concentrated within, “my neighbor feels good and I feel bad. I do not have what my neighbor has”, then I cannot turn to that desire he has today and say, “You will become fulfilled by what your neighbor has, and even with something greater. The neighbor has a car, and you will have a good car. He has a big apartment, and you will have the same one. His wife is beautiful, and yours will become beautiful”, and so on. Everyone already understands that this will not happen.

Why am I saying this? You can no longer speak to the concrete and current desires of a person, and this is where the whole problem lies. This is why we must search for a way to speak to him, in order to explain that he will acquire a different desire, that he will have a different Kli, he will grow and will want something that is, in reality, more necessary. Then he will receive everything he wants. And then he will reply to this: “I don’t want what you are offering me. I want specifically what I want today”.

This is the whole trick that we must perform: how to clothe our approach to the masses, in order that they devour it as bait. That is, in order that it will be outwardly acceptable to them as the clothing for their desire.

That is why it is said that the Science of Kabbalah must be revealed gradually, “Lo Lishma”, to the extent that it is suitable for women and children and so on. That is, for those who are still within egoism, and small egoism at that, or the average one. They will slowly grow, that is, their egoism will increase and become more grown-up, more inclined to being expressed and fulfilled. Then people will begin to understand that there exists something greater than their current and average existence. However, for this, we have to work with the masses. We have not learned to write books on that level yet.

There is another part of society. These are people who strive towards science, they are people who strive to comprehend themselves and express themselves. That is, the search for the Creator speaks within them. This person wants to find out where the world came from, why it spins the way it does and what is happening to it. The desire is not yet apparent in him, however, in principle, he is looking for the Creator and the source of everything that happens. Subconsciously, this is already the search for the Creator. It is easier to speak to them because they are closer to us in their desires.

This is why it is said: from the animal desires to the desires for wealth, fame and knowledge; and then for the spiritual. The reason for this is that knowledge already refers to the fact that I am searching for the understanding of the system that influences me and in which I am located. It is easier to speak to this kind of people, because today we are already beginning to search for, and to find, the approach to them and contact with them.

But how can we turn to the second part, or the masses? That is, how can we find the clothing for our science, for our offer, in order to sell our goods to the masses? Unfortunately, I do not yet see how this can be done. It is fully possible that this is not an idea for our time; it is possible that we will get smarter, or that someone else will come who understands more and is more intelligent, and he will establish contact with the masses.

However, on the other hand, I hope that the spreading of Kabbalah through scientists will force the masses to relate to it differently, because the masses respect science. They perceive that the desires of scientists are special and exalted. “Knowledge is power”, “knowledge is status”: this lives in any animal, because it originally understands that the ladder of strivings: towards animal pleasures, or money, or power, or knowledge; exists inside each of us and is perceived to a greater or smaller degree. A scientist is considered to be more remote from various earthly desires in comparison to the politician, or compared to a businessman or a regular person.

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