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
