Question: Researchers from the Weizmann Institute in Israel have found that human tears contain a substance that suppresses aggression. For the study, they collected emotional tears from women. Then, men were given the opportunity to smell these tears or a physiological saline solution. It turned out that female tears induce changes in the brain that reduce male aggression by more than forty percent. What is the spiritual root of tears?
Answer: Tears are excesses of the desire to bestow. In Kabbalah, this is called Ohr Hozer, the reflected light that comes out from the source of the light and envelops it. In other words, tears are a great force.
Question: Even in a spiritual sense?
Answer: Especially in a spiritual sense.
Question: So, it overwhelms me, I want to bestow, bestow, and bestow?
Answer: When a person feels that he cannot solve the problem of bestowing, then tears manifest. I really want to bestow, but I cannot; my nature is different.
Question: It is one thing when a child cries. Another thing when an adult cries. Are tears still a form of helplessness?
Answer: Yes, it is helplessness every time.
Question: So, I have to reach a dead-end and then tears come?
Answer: And then tears appear. These tears are the reflected light in which the direct light from the Creator is dressed.
Question: Can you explain the terms reflected light and direct light more simply?
Answer: It means that a person appeals to the Creator and receives help from Him. This is called light.
Question: Is this the direct light?
Answer: Yes, and reflected light is the light that comes to a person and reflects from him in the desire to merge with the Creator.
Question: In our world we have tears of happiness, tears of sorrow, pain, hatred, and all of these are still tears. Why are they all tears?
Answer: Tears are a lack of the ability to embrace the immensity.
Question: Do I want to embrace the unattainable?
Answer: Yes, those who want to encompass the unattainable and find that they cannot do it, they cry. This can happen to a little child or an old person as well.
Question: In Kabbalah, there is a concept called “gates of tears.” They say that the gates of tears are always open. Can you explain?
Answer: When a person has a complete realization that he has done everything possible to come close to the Creator and sees that he still cannot achieve it, he then explodes from within in sobbing, thus opening the gates of tears. In other words, all gates are closed, but the gates of tears are open to a person who comes to them in this way.
Question: When you said that he has been through everything, already done everything, does that mean that all gates are closed? So, he checked all the gates?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, one must still check all the gates?
Answer: Otherwise how will one explode in suffering and prayer?
Question: Can we say that, in principle, our life is to check all the gates? Is this our life? And all the sufferings we get along the way, are they because the gates are closed?
Answer: Yes.
Question: We come to it with age, with wisdom? What do we come to the gates of tears with?
Answer: With a plea out of helplessness. With a request that we have done everything, and besides the Creator no one can help us, and only to Him do we turn. But we are capable of it! Not just crying and screaming like a child. But when you have been through everything and your despair is greater than all the problems that came to you.
Question: Have you ever cried?
Answer: I have cried. The last time I cried was when my friend was drafted to the army. And with this I felt that childhood and youth were ending.
Question: Was it your childhood friend leaving?
Answer: Yes.
Remark: So, you had that period of happiness called childhood, and it ended.
Answer: Yes, something like that.
Question: This is an overflow of what?
Answer: It is an overflow of emotions. We were very close friends, and it was the end of it.
Question: Another question: Your teacher Rabash, did he ever cry?
Answer: No, I imagine that it could have happened, but I never saw a single tear.
Question: Even, as you said, when his wife died, when he was distraught by that blow?
Answer: No, he did not cry and did not show any emotion.
Question: Why?
Answer: He did not have it in him. He did not have anything like it. I was with him for 12 to 13 years; he passed away in my arms, and never did he cry.
Question: But when you think about him, very often tears come to your eyes?
Answer: I am not him.
Question: What do you feel at that moment?
Answer: I feel bitterness that I could not bestow to him more than I did. And sometimes, it caused him a sense of offense toward me. So… I still have to figure this out.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23
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