Meaning, our language only aims us toward the roots; it does not do more than that. It does not explain the roots to us. Rather, the explanation depends on the person, how that person rises from branch to root. He might be the most intelligent person, but not be in this process, and will not reach the root. The explanation must always be, if it is an explanation from person to person…just as in our world, I can explain something to someone who has the same intelligence, sensations, and understanding of what I am talking about, who has the same knowledge, who is in the same society, had the same upbringing. Meaning, that person has the right foundations to understand what I am conveying to him, and receive a picture according to what I am passing onto him. So there are many conditions that have to be met in the other in order to convey from the wise to one who understands with his own mind. Otherwise, it might be a great corruption. He will misunderstand it, and I have no way of testing if he understood it correctly or not. And perhaps, instead of benefit, there will be only harm. That is why the wisdom is not just passed onto anyone, but it says that you do not study unless “this and that” condition is met. Only on such conditions: “From the mouth of a wise Kabbalist to the ear of an understanding receiver.”
Commentary by Rav Michael Laitman PhD
The end result of an action is already contained in the initial thought.
All actions and thoughts of an individual contribute to the whole human system.
When a person is unaware of their effect on the system, they automatically act with an egoistic intention.
When these intentions are combined, they are naturally in conflict.
At the global level these crises reveal the initial thoughts behind our actions.
Becoming aware of these egoistic thoughts, the individuals can then consciously determine the purpose of their actions.
It is clear to see that changing the thought behind an action, is the only way to produce positive, and purposeful results.
Character: Unfortunately, no one ever really looks at their intentions…
But we must still understand what was the purpose for which the Creator created this lot? Indeed, it is to elevate him to a Higher and more important degree, to feel his God like the human sensation, which is already given to him. And as one knows and feels one’s friend’s wishes, so will he learn the words of the Creator, as it is written about Moses, “And the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.”
Any person can be as Moses. Undoubtedly, anyone who examines the evolution of Creation before us will see and understand the great pleasure of the Operator, whose operation evolves until it acquires that wondrous sensation of being able to converse and deal with one’s God as one speaks to one’s friend.
Baal HaSulam
The Teaching of Kabbalah and its Essence
Kabbalah For the Student
Page 31
Basically, Kabbalah does not do that so as to tell us what else we are going to experience under the light’s constant influence, from our present state up to a complete equivalence of form with the light called the Gmar Tikkun. It, rather, encourages us to make our own earnest effort and by our personal and independent participation shorten this process.
In general, if one shares one’s feelings with another person, the two create a common vessel, a larger vessel for sensations. There is an additional feeling in that vessel: that of the other person. That is why it is more pleasant to share an experience than to experience something alone.
