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A Spiritual Leader

Question: The man is the primary breadwinner in the family, a social leader, and the driving force in different frameworks. Should a man also be the same in spirituality?

Answer: It makes no difference who yearns for the Creator [1] in order to resemble Him, whether it is a man or a woman [2]. I wouldn’t say that a man is the driving force of advancement, and not our progress of devlopment in any way.

Compared to a woman, a man is more productive in science, but this isn’t necessarily advancement. We see that everything is moving toward a crisis [3] and that people begin to understand that material, technological, and scientific development are not the foundations of this world; spiritual development is.

The question is whether a man advances in his spiritual development. As for now, I would say that those who yearn for spirituality are 80% women and only 20% men.

Women feel the deficiency in this world and in life much more. They feel the lack of filling more acutely so they are ready for self-sacrifice, for helping, for disseminating, for everything.

It is very hard to pull a man out of a state of complacency or indifference.

We are all egoists and are made of a desire to receive, but a woman feels this desire as emptiness and is wiser in choosing the filling. She will not waste time on football and will not feel the momentary excitement and attraction like a man because this is how a woman’s nature operates—in favor of advancing in spirituality. Although basically we should know how to combine both corporeal pleasures and the yearning for spirituality in our lives.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/26/16

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