Question: You say that we have to take the opportunities that the Creator gives us. Are the sufferings that we feel these opportunities? How should a person who doesn’t have a point in the heart [1] live in a world in which the spiritual ascent has already begun?
Answer: If a person doesn’t have a point in the heart, if he has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah [2], he doesn’t owe anything to anyone whatsoever. He can live his life peacefully until this point appears in him.
Such a person suffers because he still advances toward the revelation of the goal of creation, but he does so instinctively, subconsciously, by receiving blows, just as all of nature develops.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/14/16
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