Question: If there is a program for the development of creation, known as Reshimot, how should we relate to attempts to correct spiritual genetic defects?

Answer: Today, science has reached the point where it can correct genetic defects. If so, are we not interfering with the inner properties of the soul, which were formed by the Creator?

After all, our work should be focused only on the group, on choosing the best possible environment each time. But if we work with the spiritual gene, study what it consists of and what is damaged in it, and try to correct it on the material level, are we not affecting our spiritual development? After all, one is clothed within the other.

This question arose even before genetics, biology, and all the possibilities of correcting genes, DNA, and everything related to our genetic information came into being. Essentially, the question is: “Is a doctor given the right to heal?”

Suppose I was born with some defect, or I have developed one now. What should I do about it? Should I correct it only on the spiritual level, through the light that reforms? Or am I allowed to use what this world offers within the limits of its possibilities?

There is a law that applies here: As human beings develop and our desire, our egoism, grows, we expand our ability to intervene in the external world and in its inner world, meaning the human being himself. We are allowed to do this, and that is why these possibilities are being revealed. The fact that these discoveries emerge as a result of the growing desire to receive means that they reveal bad things, not good ones, because egoism cannot bring us anything better.

Is it good that today I crave a thousand and one pleasures, cannot live in peace with anyone, including myself, and am never satisfied with anything? Perhaps this leads me toward correction, toward recognizing how unbearable my state has become. But in themselves, these are bad things, because they result from the development of the ego.

Nevertheless, we are allowed to use what our egoism forces us to develop. This is a defect arising in response to another defect, and a correction in response to another correction. We are permitted to act in this way.

For example, the ego may lead to the development of a particular disease. My ego has grown from one incarnation to the next and reached a new level. As a result, this new level in the current incarnation is accompanied by new diseases.

As egoism grows, new misfortunes arise, including new physical illnesses. If, in response, I invest enormous amounts of effort, money, and resources in trying to improve the world in some way and manage to achieve a certain correction through these great efforts, then I am allowed to benefit from that correction at the same level.

In other words, the law that a doctor is given the right to heal does not go beyond the framework of natural corrections. I invest effort in the area where a defect exists and correct it. The size of the defect corresponds to the degree of egoism that has developed. If I invest effort, money, and other resources, dedicating myself to fighting this misfortune and being prepared to give everything to overcome it, then in this way I bring about a correction.

In other words, it is not the doctor who heals me, but my own investment of effort at the level represented by the doctor on the animate level.

The same applies to our intervention in genes and all the related issues. We must explore every question that arises, wherever we live, and investigate matter in whatever ways we can, developing our knowledge and using it correctly for the benefit of people. If my ego pushes me toward development, and I advance because of this push, then it happens involuntarily, not because of my conscious decision.

People around the world are shouting, “We must stop genetic cloning experiments!” But who can really stop them? Do you believe that no one is working on this? Everyone is working on it. People shout, but in reality, their protests achieve nothing.

It is clear that our ego will push us in this direction. Will we develop an even more sophisticated bomb? Of course we will. All the bad things will inevitably come to light. Whether we want it or not, our ego will lead us there. We see that all the latest technologies and scientific advances, including those in biology and other sciences, are used primarily for military purposes, while only a small part benefits ordinary people.

We will also see that this, too, is certainly programmed into the desire to receive and into our development. The more the desire to receive grows and forces us to reveal more of our nature, the more it exposes all the filth, sores, and abscesses within us. Through this process, we come to recognize evil more quickly.

This corporeal development may seem to show that we can somehow protect ourselves from diseases, and indeed, such possibilities exist. We recognize evil in the form of a particular disease and can treat it by investing enormous effort. But this must not interfere with our spiritual correction. Later, we will see this entire picture in its complete and perfect form.

Therefore, we are allowed to use the latest technologies, but we will not achieve true correction through them. Ultimately, all corrections will come from above, through the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/12/26, Rabash, Notes 882 “Rosh Hashanah”

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