The Meaning of Life
Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2008
by Bernadette Schaepdryver
There is a tremendous amount of knowledge wherein people can delve into with regard to this particular subject. And it's of course quite understandable that questions will keep bothering us regarding this matter for as long as we live, and won't have find the perfect answer, the pure light, the one that will heal our entire being when we finally will have discovered who we truly are, above all what the real meaning of our existence is, its purpose, the essence of its depth, the core deep within us, the root that never changes, but stays the same everlasting throughout the universes encompassed by the wisdom of its nature. Anyhow, the answer to all those most sincere and understandable questions that could be asked is something we ourselves as individuals can only answer correctly when we have found that particular light, the very energy that keeps us alive, keeps our nature afloat so that we may one day begin wandering beyond its revelation into what we today call the world to come. It's thus not so much a question of time, but rather an essence of courage, of vision, even the will to change, to evolve, to not be afraid of taking the next step, and again another one, and so on because stagnation in this is never something healthy. It will destroy our wisdom, our drive to keep learning what we still don't know, eventually putting our entire existence in jeopardy. But evolution is something that doesn't exist within the nature of our body, as we only can evolve and mature properly when we would be willing to connect ourselves to the spiritual level of what life is all about. Nature on itself is only bound by nature. After all, has the Torah been written by the natural environment we live in?
In a certain way is it thus as such that Moshiach will only help us in a more profound way, in a manner that will guide us towards a higher level of awareness, a level no one has ever reached at this very moment in time. He or she; every person is in fact both, as a soul has no sex differences or preferences; will guide us to that state of the mind in a more concrete way when we will have become spiritually mature enough for this to happen, a point of no return that is. Our strength in Him will have become strong enough. Man will have build himself a sound foundation whereupon he can build further on without fear nor danger of it ever collapsing. But we need to prepare ourselves properly, above all correctly for this most blessed event in human history to occur. We will also have to be ready in coming to terms with the faults we've made, and without hesitation renouncing on all of our non-kosher thoughts, even teachings, also the religious ones, because nothing will happen at all when we would keep refusing the light within that tries to connect us to the one of above, the same as G-d wouldn't have been able to guide Moshe and the Hebrew/Jewish people out of Egypt when they would have refused to accept His Light within the night of their lives and His cloud of protection during the day. The same will it be within the era of Moshiach. He or she can't do anything really unless we accept his or her presence within our midst wholeheartedly, but as how it is supposed to be done. There is nothing that can become achieved when the ego keeps prevailing, even within those who think that they are ready to respect, and live their lives by what will be taught. It is even said that Moshiach ben Yoseph will fail, but if this is the case, then we have to understand that it's a prophecy with a negative warning. This means that it lays within our own power to change this, to evolve, and to help Moshiach ben Yoseph to succeed because a negative prophecy isn't supposed to happen, as the people of Nineveh have showed us, but even the king who listened to the warning of the prophet Eliyah after a very harsh drought. And every single one of us knows very well what needs to be done so that it can happen, so that Moshiach ben Yoseph's teachings will not be lost within the winds of time, or the dust of this world. It better don't get lost for the sake and betterment of many people's lives, but instead becomes lived.
This means that we as seekers do need to be on our guard constantly throughout our present lives so that we would become in the ability of residing on the same spiritual level so to grow till we reach the highest one possible, as the ultimate key can only be given once everyone has reached the level needed. Only when the human nature, when humankind has successfully reached a state of mind wherein the above and the below does become fully one in the One, then and only then will humankind enter the world to come. It can only be as such because we in the oneness of G-d are a oneness ourselves which means that we are a team, and we as a team can only succeed in our mission when we think and behave as one based on who we are as an individual within the body itself, an individual with special gifts to the assigned task, the same as it was when craftsmen were chosen to build the Tent of meeting during Moshe's lifetime. If even one element in this oneness can't adapt properly to the foundation it is a particle of, then the entire oneness can't fulfill itself as such. It can't and won't become a unified whole yet. The structure, the foundation keeps being unstable, its strength weakened, and the entire house that is being build upon it can and will fall in ruin if changes do not occur on time. If the worst possible scenario would happen, then it will become a wasteland, a ruin, a land of thorns and thistles until it becomes a desert wherein nothing wants to grow anymore unless we find the cure that would heal its soil and makes it fruitful once again no matter the costs, as it's something priceless. For that reason are we as humans a team, and only as a team will we become in the ability of changing the course of history from one wherein evilness/wickedness still resides into one of pure light. We have the example to such a statement when we take into account the fact that whenever the Jewish nation did return home after having been exiled, and does follow G-d's guidelines that the entire world becomes at peace with itself. It was so during the era of Adom when man resided in the Garden of Eden as well, as it was with Noah in the Ark. There was even a relative calm during Avraham's lifetime, even the one of Yitchak and Yaacov. But then the threat of assimilation started to hover dangerously over the world of the Torah within Egypt. Man needed to learn again. The Jewish/Hebrew nation needed to regain her strength first of all once again.
That's the reason thus why we as Hebrews/Jews have been able to stay being a light unto the nations, namely not by our desperation for survival at all costs, but rather of what lives within us, our awareness of that light, the help G-d once gave Adom, or the era where man became deeply aware of it that is, the people where out it emerged as a beacon into the entire world from then on. That help has always been the solution to man's survival, and his ongoing evolution, his quest of finding new ways to improve, to better the lives of everyone, above all his awareness of this most precious gift. We as Hebrews/Jews refused to let us become erased, be wiped away from the face of the earth by the forces of nature. We knew how most important that gift was for all of humankind no matter the dangers from the world all around us, no matter the alienation of that world, its disrespect for who we are, and what we belief in the way we did, do and will keep on doing so everlasting, fulfilling our commitment to the covenant G-d made with Avraham, even Yitchak, Yaacov and Moshe. The path of evolution is what we took for granted because we knew and do know deep inside us that there was, is and will always be more to life than just being alive, or living our life as if there's nothing else that counts, as if it's everyone for him-/herself. Thus whether G-d is a reality or an alien from outer space is not important anymore because what matters is the core essence of the meaning behind our existence, the purpose of our life. If there would be none, then there is nothing to live for, nor to die for either in fact. Life would be a void, and we, or every lively form for that matter non-existent. As such did we became taught in the root language of the universes, the language wherewith we will become in the ability to understand other human life beyond the constraints of this planet, even this galaxy and universe. It's the language we have called Hebrew, a language that seems not to be very important on this planet, but in reality is the only one that will help us to understand, to communicate with others beyond our realm, the same as English is it today in our present world on this very planet alone. It has the key woven into it that will open the door to many other languages, and thus the ability to understand, to comprehend one another and have a universal peace. Hebrew can therefore be regarded as the universal language of all life wherever it resides.
It's a holy language not because it being the language of the Torah, but one that found its root within the creation of life itself. It's the language that has opened the doors to the science of mathematics, philosophy, physics, geography, economics, biology, astrophysics, astronomy, psychology and so much more, culminating eventually in what we have achieved to this day, and will keep on doing so tomorrow. But it above all did brought us much closer to G-d, as without Him, the knowledge of His existence that is, not even one single matter of life nor Hebrew would have come into existence at all. What we as Jews are therefore on this very planet, and what Eretz Yisrael/Eretz Tziyyon is for us, namely the center of Earth, is a reality for an equally chosen people throughout all the universes together, even their place of residence being the center of the galaxy they reside in. We in fact can state that the Hebrew language is the one that will bring every life within all of creation closer and closer to the revelation of what the meaning of life really entails, its secrets, its reasons, but above all its visions when we refer to the future ahead of us, and how to understand it all correctly, but also in how we will have to be taught with regard to the past, as we never won't be capable of teaching what lays ahead properly when we refuse to acknowledge our past, or would try to revise it by means of our ego, as some within the gentile world have tried to do so when it comes to the Torah. Nevertheless, as said before, only every individual personally can find it for him-/herself, meaning the key to his/her redemption ultimately salvation. No one of us does know everything. We can therefore only try to guide by using the best way we can, and by what we know at present, but never by force, nor by taking away a person's freedom, and neither by proselytizing. Moshiach won't know everything either. He or she won't have the key to the Kingdom of G-d. Only He is in the possession of it, as every person, every life has its very own special key that is a bit different from all other keys, as we are unique, even when we refer this to identical twins. But Adom (=human) lost it when s/he became older. As such has no man the ability to unlock the door to G-d's kingdom till we all regain what we've once lost.
However, life on this planet after Adom became even very haughty, and the language became confounded till we couldn't understand one another anymore, except for one chosen family out of the root of the second Adom, the Chava (= Soul/Eve) one, that was chosen to safeguard its secret, its ability to heal those who became lost in translation so to speak. The language became exiled. It became dispersed to every corner of the then world without no one really being aware of it. But the chosen ones cultivated it, and kept its fruits in a safe place till it would be safe to reveal it more openly to the world once again. G-d guided them and eventually resettled them into His home, the land we have come to call Eretz Yisrael, the home of the Jewish people, or also named Eretz Tziyyon (Zion) by prophecy, as it is said that Yerushalayim will expand to the east, the west, the north, and the south. It's a home that belongs to no human being. No one can claim it as his or her property, nor being the sovereign ruler over it. No Jew, nor Christian nor Islamic personality whether Muslim or Arab, or anyone else for that matter can truly state and acclaim that it is his/her. This special blessed place of residence on this planet belongs to only one, namely the One. Even when everything is created by Him, that tiny spot, the center of our galaxy, is His home amongst us all. He does share it with them who He has decided it to share it with everlasting, and sealed in a covenant for all of man to know throughout every generation without exception. Only with those who are spiritual fruitful will this land become fruitful by nature. Only those who show sincere respect to its foundation, its root can claim it as their home amongst the nations, not their property tho, and to share its blessings with the entire world, even its light. It's the cradle not of civilization, but of life itself, even of the one before the Adom of the Garden. There it all began, and there man begot his Chava, his soul, his help. There it is that man's maturation will become sealed as being completely fulfilled. Shells will fall from the eyes, and man will see what he never saw before, then only Moshe once. He will not fear anymore, as he will have matured spiritually so to see and not die doing so, but will truly start to live, to give meaning to his life ever after.
But what does it all mean now? What does He mean by sharing it, by letting the entire world know about, and become lectured in its light? And what does it being a home to the chosen means to us being Jewish or gentile? Does it has to be seen as it being the home of every human being, or that everyone is entitled to live in it? Does it mean that He can share it with whomever He wants? But does it also mean that a certain people will have to move out one day or another based on what the Torah teaches us about Lot when he was about to enter the land with Avraham?
Yes, of course is it as such that every human being can call it his/her home while He can share it with everyone, as no one can claim it as his/her property, not even one inch of the land because the home referred to in these questions above is His kingdom, and not Eretz Yisrael. Every human being has the right to share its light with everyone when s/he is prepared to do so within the respect and love it deserves to be given, meaning in all honesty about what is being taught in that home. There is nothing wrong about doing so when it's done with justness, rightness, and without changing anything, the same as Moshe did with the Torah, and every Patriarch, even Matriarch when we refer to the Mishnah. But when we point especially the last question towards Eretz Yisrael, even in our time, then the answer is yes too. And no matter how hard this can reverberate within the nature of a man's ego, even when every human soul is connected to the core of this land, then the reality of nature will always try to teach us what's all about when it comes to showing respect for the decisions the world above made so that we could live in harmony with one another for the betterment of all life. The below and above can never become a unified whole for as long as man won't accept the restrictions of the nature he lives in. Nevertheless, He has only ordained the Hebrew/Jewish people as universal priests, and as a light unto the nations. They are the Priests of priests in a manner of speaking. This means that every gentile can only be a guest, a stranger to this land, even when s/he can also call it home, or rather is entitled to share it with Him based on His laws and commandments to this regard made, specifically for the land in question. It's something that is clearly revealed within the commandment of keeping the Sabbath whereas it is written that also the stranger will keep it when residing in His home, even when just being a tourist. But it's also written that the land will not be great enough to sustain two people. Let us therefore never forget that most important reminder that Avraham transmitted to us because it also teaches us that when the Torah speaks about procreation, that it doesn't mean giving birth to tens of children. It tells us to be a light unto the nations so that the souls within man can reveal themselves, and eventually become themselves a beacon of light to others within their own surroundings, a beacon that can give strength to many other souls to reveal themselves as well so that the host they reside in will become who s/he as a person has always been since his/her birth into this world. A soul becomes as such a parent to another soul who on itself can become a parent to another soul and so on and on and on until the work is finished, and goodness flourishes allover within the Jewish and Noahide (gentile) world.
A man will thus leave his parents, and will join his wife and they will become one. But a man/Adom will also become one with his Chava, his help, and they together will become a light for other souls to give light till the very last inch of darkness vanishes. For that Avraham left his kindred, the home of his parents. He didn't leave it when he married Sarah, but did so when he went when G-d asked him to do so at a time when he had freely chosen his Chava as a bride, his spiritual help, and not the gods of his father's home. One bright light will therefore shine next to another one, as is prophesied. Two suns will shine as they have never done so before, namely the one of the chosen ones (Hebrews/Jews) and the one of the gentiles (Noahides). Yes, the story of procreation within Genesis is not really about giving birth to children by natural birth because G-d knows that such an act, and in a very literal interpretation, will eventually destroy His creation, which is not what He wants to see happening at all. If man will keep it seeing that way, then G-d's wish will forever die with it, as the earth will not have the ability, will not have enough room to replenish in time what has been taken from her at the speed it is being taken away from her. Nature will start to die, beautiful creations becoming extinct, and so will man when he keeps being stubborn to this matter out of egoism, out of selfishness and yes, evilness/wickedness. The same will happen with G-d's home when we don't show it the respect it deserves to be given based on what He has taught every single one of us whether we are Jewish or gentile. To sustain ourselves we need food, and to have food we need nature, but nature can't and won't give it us when we keep destroying it out of our disrespect for the beauty of the below, the sanctity of life. G-d represents life, and so is it that He hasn't created the world below for that world to become destroyed by one single element within his creation. Therefore, we due to that basic and very simple knowledge do come to know that procreation in Genesis is above all and first of all about souls. And that's something that as a seed does go even beyond grains of sand, beyond this planet.
As such do we come to understand that there are no evil souls in existence at all because G-d is goodness, is light, even is life, and out of Him only goodness can become a reality, a fact. After all, we have been created in His likeness. This means that we as a soul are a light, the same as He is. If we would be something otherwise than what He represents, then so would He be as well. And this is not the case. Nevertheless, we as a human being within the capacity of our ego, and thus our nature, can falter in our relation with our Chava, our help, as Adom of the Garden has proven, even the fallen angel that we have nicknamed the serpent, in reality thus just another adom of the ancient world, the one that still lived without the knowledge of having a soul. But Adom stood not still. He refused to let his help go away, or rather he leaving his Chava. He wanted to keep learning, and something that the ancient world didn't want that people did. Eve kept guiding the steps of this human being thus knowing that humankind will from now one eventually find its way back to the Garden of Eden, becoming a full oneness again with G-d. And that's in reality the purpose of our entire life, the meaning of why we live, namely in bringing Chava back to her husband, to Adom wherefrom we tried to take her away so to speak. You could even connect this to the Jewish people and a large part of the gentile world still adamantly trying to pull it away from Judaism, to convert them to a gentile religion, even if it's a monotheistic one as well. Still, when we would not be afraid to analyze it and accept its outcome, then it's the same old trick and reason why Adom once truly fell, and something we witness within the life of Avraham too albeit hidden within an Egyptian passage of time. For this purpose have we been given many tools and utensils, even writings. But they are only a means to help, to guide, even Kabbalah, and thus the Zohar. It is no science, then merely a writing that can guide us back to the Garden when we acquire the proper strength to respect its wisdom and richness within the honesty of our light. A guide it merely is thus, and not a science because Adom was born within the Torah of his life. Adom knew everything, but s/he lost it, and so Kabbalah became a reality as a means to help, to hide it as well from others till time would come to reveal when no wicked one would be able to cause harm anymore to the world of the soul, of the light. Yes, even when Adom didn't grasp everything yet to its full extend and depth of what s/he was learning about after having been ousted from the Garden, then s/he was aware that humankind one day will come to know, and find its way back home, the home s/he lost.
We in fact don't need Kabbalah, nor the Zohar thus to attain a very high spiritual level, even not for attaining the highest level because everything has become created out of Torah, not out of Kabbalah. One who does teach Kabbalah the other way around is not a true Cabalist, and a false teacher in it, nor is s/he one when referring to it as merely a science by concept, and thus showing contempt to its wisdom. This is one of the reasons why so many things have gone wrong in human history, especially for the Hebrew/Jewish people, even Yisraelites, over the centuries. Whether we would speak or write about the birth of Christianity, or the one of Islam, then gentiles became taught wrongly about something the people were not yet ready to absorb, even when it would have been taught correctly to them at the set time. Their mind was not yet strong enough, the strength of their soul too weak. People became immersed into a kind of madness in a way of speaking due to having first of all mostly being forced into another religion, even having to confront a lot of violence within the process of their forced conversion, and at the end having been guided by those who wanted to lead the people by way of their ego onto a journey man today are still paying a very heavy price with a lot of innocent bloodshed flowing everywhere within the world of man, even within Judaism, in Eretz Yisrael, and the Jewish nation, just one giant pool of blood. Yeah, people started fighting, but completely uncontrolled because they could not see anymore, and became afraid of everything that surrounded them, even their neighbor. Christians and Islamic people became indulged in something they could not grasp, that went above their head, and it frightened them so much that it made them even become more blind than they already were, not really knowing anymore where their roots were and are. It didn't spur them to leave their gods. It just aggravated their belief in them under the disguise of monotheism, and thus became their fighting for even extreme, a ferocity not seen before, or rather not having been seen for a very long time since the Adom of the Garden left the ancient world, the home of his parents. They in a way were following both beliefs in fact within one, and as such fought for both instead of one. But they already believed in G-d before this switch, and so became believing in what you could call a concurrent god, almost equal in character and personality as G-d, but rather the anti-G-d in this case, a very tactical and military idea of ancient Rome by the way. And every time that Kabbalah resurfaces again, and becomes taught and studied wrongly, then the psychological trauma will emerge again as well. It will start to hover over the entire Earth due to that many of the gentile ancestors, even Jewish ones, have been brutally forced to convert. It's like awakening the tormented dead bodies once again, and torturing these innocent souls of light once more.
It doesn't thus matter when the teachers in Kabbalah do behave nicely and friendly in such circumstances because when they teach it wrongly, then their teachings do and will become a teaching of violence to the soul, and to other human beings, even nature, as a result of their wickedness, their very own ego. It will do harm to the very light that every man needs for him to be guided to a prosperous life, a better life, a healthier one. And every single soul who has truly attained a higher spiritual level without the need of Kabbalah will know it. It will hurt the depth of their heart tremendously, almost to the brink of killing the body because it saddens them so much in that evilness, the ego of man is using Kabbalah as a means to destroy, even to the point of exterminating all life on this planet. So every teacher in Kabbalah who tries to deny this reality, to twist the words is a teacher who better would have never been born unless s/he changes direction to the better, as s/he has become merely a tool within the wicked world of man for he has eaten from the tree of good and evil, and therefore knows how to use everything for the purpose of goodness, but as well for the purpose of evil, to let it serve his ego. Anyhow, the meaning of life at the end, the reason of why we exist, why that we have been given the opportunity to live is to bring our Chava back to her husband, and we can only attain that kind of spirituality by studying our Torah properly, and through the guidance of a teacher, a rabbi and/or rebbetzin who has/have not been compromised in any way. Nature follows a cyclic, but so does everything within the spiritual world. Every soul has the given grace of the L-rd to regain what it has lost, namely to bring the host wherein it resides to the place it came from so bringing the below and the above into a holy matrimony sealed by Heaven. Life is thus more than just living it. It's our duty to regain conscience, even when being conscious, and to do so with utmost respect not only to the values of the natural world we live in, then also to those of the world above for we without it wouldn't have been able to live our life at all, or have come that far in human history for that matter either. Sometimes is it as such by occasion that evil and good do go hand in hand when it could serve the benefit of good, but eventually is there only one who can settle the land, and it ain't wickedness, nor both together thus! As the soul, man's help, can only listen to one master, so will the body have to choose between its ego or its help, but with the knowledge of what will happen when the ego becomes chosen.
The Hebrew/Jewish world is a world of goodness, of pure light, but when it is surrounded by a world wherein evilness rules, then it has to keep being strong against a twisted ideology, one wherein good is seen as evil, and evil as good. You even witness this still today when being confronted with situations where the culprit gets away with whatever s/he has done, and the victim becomes forgotten, his/her rights trampled, even in our technology age like in online forums for instance when it refers to the matter of banning someone, or calling someone to the order first with a warning that should have been directed at the real culprit, and not at the victim. It's a very simple example, but nevertheless one were words of violence are the cause due to the ego of those who moderate the forum and/or in connection with certain members' ego as well. It seems to have no value within this writing. Tho it has because it is a sign of an ever growing problem within our world because when wickedness is not stopped in its bud, then the risk will become real that it will grow completely out of proportion. And we have witnessed what happened when it does so during the Shoah, even before WWII when we remember Kristallnacht. There therefore cannot be a law within the law when it concerns the proper rights of the individual, also when it concerns forums for instance related to software businesses versus the customer of the software in question. And these and other more extreme matters cannot be confronted by means of teachers who teach with the sole purpose of aggravating this evilness by consent, as it is not the soul that speaks, but rather the ego that prevails, that dominates. A teacher wherein the ego prevails can't be given the authority to teach because those teachers don't mind that many innocent people will be killed in the process. They themselves have become blinded by the ego of power, and have left the path of teaching for the good of humankind, of turning the tide in favor of goodness worldwide. They are merely beings who knowingly, and even unknowingly, do want to prevent Chava of ever returning to her husband, as it will prevent them to have power over people who don't know better than what they have been taught wrongly in. When they are Jewish, then they are a disgrace to the entire Hebrew/Jewish nation, and the Yisraelite ancestors. When they are Christian, follow Islam, or belong to another world religion, even being an atheist or whatever, then they are a disgrace to the entire human race within a universal context seen. As is said, the meaning of life is to be a light, a beacon helping, giving more strength to other souls so that they would acquire the power to reveal themselves to their host, and bring Chava back into the oneness of her Creator so that we all become a oneness with G-d, even having the ability to procreate founded on respect with regard to every life within our world, and in freedom. That's the goal. That's the meaning of life that will bring us into a new world, the world to come, a new dawn for the entire human race once the era of Moshiach ben David comes to an end, once the world and era of Moshiach evolves into a human evolution beyond our comprehension to this day, or what we can refer to as G-d's eight day.
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