Question: People can simply go crazy when playing a game because they become so engrossed in the game that they can go for days without tearing themselves away from it. This is especially true for the current generation that practically lives on the Internet.

How can we create the same level of engagement in spiritual development? Not by forcing oneself, but by presenting it as a delicious candy that draws you inward.

Answer: Enter spiritual development and you will see that it is the most captivating game. It is the game of life, a game with the Creator! You can create it!

Any game is a weak imitation of what Kabbalah offers you: the ability to create, to change, and to shape things yourself. That is why we get so absorbed in games. It is because they contain an act of creation, even destruction, it does not matter. But it is creation; you are making something new. You are, in a way, the master, you have power in your hands, choice, tension, joy, resolution, a kind of ecstasy.

All of these are small fragments of the process that Kabbalah grants you when you gain the ability to change worlds within yourself. It is a game that no computer can ever compare to!

I sit in front of the text of The Book of Zohar from which you have just distracted me, and I am waiting for only one thing—for you to get tired of talking to me so I can return to it. And so it is for 20 hours a day.

I take short breaks to walk, eat, do something when necessary just to sustain myself. But all the rest of the time, I am ready to be in it. It is such a fascinating process, an enchanting and unexpected path that nothing else can replace!

In my youth, I lived in Leningrad and was like any other student: girls, Preference (a card game), parties, songs, and trips. I voluntarily worked as a sound engineer for a rock band called Nomads. Once we even won first place in our city.

But spiritual attainment cannot be compared to anything! In a computer game, you are given more possibilities than in regular, real life. You have to go somewhere, crawl, do something. In the end, it is all difficult and quite time-consuming before you achieve something.

This is not for our egoism, which wants everything right now, immediately, as soon as possible, much brighter, and in a controlled manner. That is why it has all shifted into the virtual computer world.

But here, in the spiritual world, everything is billions of times brighter. And it is not a game, not an illusion—turn off the computer, and it is gone. The virtual world was created by someone either to make money from it or because they themselves enjoy playing.

But in spirituality, you are not playing. You are building, creating! You were made for that! This is the most natural fulfillment, the most vivid experience you can have! It cannot be compared to anything at all. Our world, with all its lures? I is just…

That is why, after all the obsessions with computers, the next level is only Kabbalah, only the introduction of a person into the real spiritual world. Otherwise, they will drown in an unreal, virtual world, and they will need nothing but a narcotic pill to immerse themselves inside their computer, and that is it. And that is exactly how it will be—through the realization of evil, through recognition of the deceit of those pursuits.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. A Game at the Cost of Life” 7/29/10

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