When a Person Needs to Humble Oneself and When Not

962.2Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet (Proverb).

My Response: In general, yes.

Question: The question is if patience is the trunk of a tree, then what is it in a person’s life?

Answer: It is humility. In general, for an ordinary person, it is humility. For a Kabbalist, this is humility to a large extent! This is because he receives all sorts of internal pressures and pushes. The main thing for him is to bow his head.

Question: Does it mean to accept them? Is this called “humility”?

Answer: Yes, because they come from the Creator. He perceives correctly everything that comes to him, sorts it all out, determines that it comes from the Creator, and bows his head.

Question: What does humility mean for an ordinary person?

Answer: It is the same for an ordinary person. But he is not arranged to rise above this like a Kabbalist.

A Kabbalist rises above the blows in his humility. A simple person, however, just humbles himself in order to suffer less. What else can he do?

Question: Is his task to humble himself?

Answer: The task of any person is not just to humble oneself, but to come closer to the Creator. Humility leads to this.

Question: Another question is toward what should a person cultivate patience, and toward what should he be impatient?

Answer: Patience should be applied to almost everything except personal egoistic pressure. I would say so; he must be impatient with his egoism. For everything else, maximum patience.

Question: Does he have to be patient with other people?

Answer: In everything!

Question: And impatient with himself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why are the roots bitter in this case according to this proverb? Is this so from the point of view of Kabbalah?

Answer: The root is actually bitter, but the fruits are sweet.

Question: Why?

Answer: Because everything starts from the roots. Until you find out, see, get acquainted, take them on yourself, grow a trunk with them, and reach the fruit, until then of course, it is all bitter.

Comment: That is, the trunk grows from very bitter roots.

My Response: Yes, and the trunk itself is also not very pleasant.

Question: What is it when sweet grows out of bitter? Is this my attitude to what is happening to me?

Answer: No, this is the revelation of the purpose of creation, which gradually is manifested in such a sequential chain of events, when, in principle, everything is considered bitter. Like a baby who is born and cries, and then through his awareness, consent, support, justifying the Creator’s actions, coming closer, connecting, and adhering with the Creator comes to a sweet fruit.

Question: The conclusion, the quintessence of this proverb: what should a tree be and what does it represent according to Kabbalah?

Answer: A tree is a tree of life. This is where a person begins his journey on earth, and how he should finish it.

Question: Is a person personified with a tree?

Answer: Yes. A person is a tree that grows and develops with the help of all sorts of possibly bitter, unpleasant sensations, without knowing how or what. He is at the inanimate level, at the level of earth, and then gradually grows and gives birth to a fruit that already reaches its maturity.

This is very complicated, we usually study this in lessons on the holiday of New Year of the trees, Tu B’Shevat in Hebrew. This is when we study it all.

Question: What is a sweet fruit to which the tree, that is, a person, should come?

Answer: It represents the fruit of the Garden of Eden. Heaven is the revelation of the Creator.

Question: Does a person reach heaven?

Answer: Yes. When the Creator is revealed in some form before him, he already sees this field in which the Creator is revealed before him, and then the tree and its fruits.

Question: Is this when he kind of produces a fruit?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the fruit?

Answer: The fruit is the attainment of the upper wisdom, eternity, perfection and complete connection with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/4/22

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