A thirsty man, holding in his hand a broken glass, must first repair the glass before he can fill it up and drink from it. He who feels the detachment from spirituality must first mend his bond with the Creator before he can receive the offered goods.
There is a root in the spiritual world for all that exists – a root that initiates and motivates our behavior, our thoughts, our emotions, and the various events we experience. Everything that we can possibly imagine.
Kabbalah deals with the question about the purpose of life. From a very young age man starts asking this question, but then forgets about it in the course of his life. Man cannot traumatize himself indefinitely with this unanswered question. The answer can be found only in one source – the wisdom of Kabbalah, which was available only to a chosen few throughout the centuries. Generations came and went, but only representatives of the last generations can receive the irrefragable answer to the most important question.
People, who very sharply feel this question, come to Kabbalah. They do not feel satisfied, filled in their daily life. They suffer neither manias, nor depressions – they simply cannot reach peace of mind in this life. Why? Kabbalah gives the answer to this question.
Like all others, a man tries to be satisfied with what this world can provide, but to no avail. He sees how other people crave for riches and success, and realizes it is no more than just a game. He participates in these “games”, often not without success, but it brings him no satisfaction. Gradually, trying himself in this world, disappointed and disenchanted, man begins to feel that his soul demands a different kind of filling. Having at last received a desire for the spiritual, man feels that he can no longer fill himself with earthly pleasures and feels his life is empty. Then he begins to look for the way to fill a new, spiritual desire.
Humankind is developing evolutionally starting from animal desires. Animal desires are desires of our body: for food, shelter, family, and sex. They all pertain to our body, and should we live outside of any society, or in the forest, we would still have these desires. The next stage of the development of the egoism is aspiration for wealth. Following this stage is the desire is for power, glory, and fame (combination of these). And finally, the desire that is the highest in our world, the desire for knowledge.
After having tried all these desires in the course of thousands of incarnations, after descending into our world thousands of times, a person reaches a state called recognition of Evil. In other words, each of us accumulates inner record which convinces us that nothing we do will give us pleasure.
