{"id":8323,"date":"2025-11-16T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=8323"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:49:11","slug":"the-question-of-life","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-question-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Question of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we set our hearts to answer but one very famous question, I am certain that all these questions and doubts will vanish from the horizon, and you will look unto their place to find them gone. This indignant question is a question that the whole world asks, namely, \u201cWhat is the meaning of my life?\u201d In other words, these numbered years of our life that cost us so heavily, and the numerous pains and torments that we suffer for them, to complete them to the fullest, who is it who enjoys them? Or even more precisely, whom do I delight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is indeed true that historians have grown weary contemplating it, and particularly in our generation. No one even wishes to consider it. Yet the question stands as bitterly and as vehemently as ever. Sometimes it meets us uninvited, pecks at our minds and humiliates us to the ground before we find the famous ploy of flowing mindlessly in the currents of life as always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, it is to resolve this great riddle that the verse writes, \u201cTaste and see that the Lord is good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Baal HaSulam,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIntroduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,\u201d Items 2-3<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we set our hearts to answer but one very famous question, I am certain that all these questions and 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