Question: What is the desert that exists within a person?

Answer: The desert within a person is their egoistic desire that cannot be corrected immediately. One must come to this desert and try to dwell in it in order to eventually come out into a “land flowing with milk and honey.”

That is why our forefathers began with the desert. Abraham went into the desert, descended into Egypt, returned to Beer Sheva, and so on. Isaac and Jacob were connected with the desert their entire lives. Moses fled from Pharaoh’s house and met Jethro in the desert, and he traversed the desert.

Naturally, this refers more to spiritual actions than to corporeal ones. However, they also occurred in corporeality in accordance with the law that every spiritual force must at some point touch its corporeal branch and imprint the same sequence in the physical world.

Therefore we must come to understand what the desert is and how it can be transformed into a blooming, fruitful land, as it is written in the Torah. This does not depend on physically relocating, as in our world. In spirituality, a change of place means a change in one’s internal qualities.

“Place” in the spiritual sense is a person’s inner desire. If my inner desire is like a desert, then I dwell within it. And if my desire is like a seashore or a garden, then I live in a garden. Everything depends on how a person corrects their inner qualities. Based on this, one should understand what is described in the Torah.

The Torah describes the process that takes place within a person who transitions from the internal state of a desert full of scorpions and snakes to a flourishing land. After forty years of correction while wandering in the desert, we arrive at the land flowing with milk and honey.

Question: So does that mean the desert is bad?

Answer: The desert is not bad; it is the initial state from which we begin our development both internally and externally.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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