Question: Why does Kabbalah become the meaning of life and something valuable for some people, while for others it is something unacceptable?

Answer: Those for whom Kabbalah is unacceptable have not yet felt the desire that responds to spiritual light, and therefore they reject this wisdom.

A person, being egoistic by nature, does not want to think about it. Kabbalah irritates him; on a subconscious level it obligates him to something and directs him to a completely different area from the one he is drawn to. He does not want this realm to exist; he does not want there to be a soul or a future world; he prefers to remain within the framework he has invented for himself. This is the first reason.

Secondly, people who come to Kabbalah and begin to study it suddenly discover that it says they must change themselves!

“I came here in order to receive and reveal knowledge, qualities, and feelings; in other words, to be filled. But here it says that I must fill the Creator by filling others, and that only through such movement from myself outward can I begin to sense the spiritual world. I don’t feel any attraction or inclination toward this. So, excuse me! Stay with your Kabbalah, and I’d rather leave.”

There are many people like that. When they leave, they feel deceived: It seemed that at first, they were captivated and drawn in, but then suddenly they discovered that it was not what they thought at all and that they only wasted time and energy. And they leave very disappointed.

They imagined that they would immediately grab the Creator “by the beard,” obtain this world and the future world, begin to control everything, uncover some secrets in order to fill their own precious, beloved self.

But it turns out that it is all different, in an entirely different key. The spiritual world is located on the next level, the level of bestowal, in simultaneous connection with our world, like in an electric motor.

Therefore, they leave very disappointed and become our opponents.

Yet we still support this. It is said that a thousand enter the study, and only one remains. It does not matter that they become haters of Kabbalah. How else can an egoist react?

But the person still retains a connection with Kabbalah, and gradually something seeps into him. Even as our opponent far away from us, he is still connected with us. Within him the spark he received has already begun to stir.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/29/17

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