Question: A person who feels dissatisfied with their life runs into the desert in search of themselves. After all, the desert is silence, a sense of eternity, something primordial, completely different from the endless cycle of daily life we constantly spin in.

Why is it that people seek inner fulfillment specifically in the desert?

Answer: I would not advise not to get too fixated on the external image of the desert. When the Torah mentions the desert, it refers to an inner state of a person. The inner desert is a search within a dried-out life that bears no fruit.

Egoism has completely drained the person and gives no answer to the question about the meaning and purpose of life. That is why they feel as though they are in an internal desert. This is precisely where one needs to find a well of living water, meaning, the upper light that is revealed specifically in dryness, in the desert.

Question: How does one dig a well in the desert?

Answer: A well emerges through questions. A well is always initially covered with a stone, and then the stone is rolled away, revealing the well. There are always disputes surrounding a well.

Question: What kind of questions are these that bore through the earth?

Answer: A person wants to reach the source of life. One constantly examines oneself and investigates reality. Where can they find the source of their own life? They search precisely in the middle of the dryness of the desert; they do not flee from this question, but dig deeper into their life.

Those people need to find their source and understand why they live, for what purpose, and what is the outcome of this short, painful life. Through this kind of digging, a person ultimately reaches the source.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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