Question: Is the inner desert a condition inherent to every person, or not everyone?

Answer: There are people in whom the egoistic desire has developed so much that they begin to feel dissatisfied with their lives.

It is like being in a desert. A person wants to know why this is happening. Is there a purpose, a higher program? Why does he feel such dryness, such emptiness in his life, from which no fruits grow?

He tells himself he needs to investigate the desert in him. This means he escapes into the desert, like our forefathers, looks for purpose, and does not find it. He plunges even deeper into inner scrutiny, tries to figure out why he feels such emptiness in life, and is unable to do anything.

This is the state of the desert, where one searches for sources of water, for wells, like Abraham or Isaac once did. There are many stories in the Torah about wells, which are so necessary especially in the desert. After all, if a person feels the dryness of life and has nothing with which to revive his soul, he must find a source of living water, that is, an upper force capable of answering him—what the purpose of his life is, its essence and meaning.

He is looking for the force that created these two states—drought and water, that is, egoism and the desire to love, evil and good. When he finds out that they come from the same source, he wonders how this can be. After all, people believed there were two forces: good and evil. Even Abraham himself once made idols in ancient Babylon, half of which were evil and half were good.

It is by going into the desert and digging wells for water that he finds the middle line. The middle line is the same upper force that brings both drought and water. This is the answer to man’s search: the feeling of drought and desert is given in order to seek and find the upper force that is the source of both phenomena.

Question: How do you find the upper force in the desert?

Answer: It is precisely because a person feels the drought and the absolute emptiness of life that he reveals the upper force.

Question: Why specifically in the desert?

Answer: A person must answer the question of why there is such dryness in his soul. And then he finds a well with living water, which is located precisely in the desert.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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