In his Introduction to the Book of Zohar, Rabbi Ashlag explains that we are made of a substance described as “will to receive.” It means that everything we do, every thought we think, and indeed, every breath we take, is meant to achieve one of two things: increase our pleasure, or decrease our pain. When one is completely satisfied, content and happy, one never asks about the meaning of life. It is simply impossible to want something else when we are already fully satisfied with what we have.

Our problem is that we are NEVER satisfied. It is arranged like that on purpose. We are not meant to be satisfied with anything. Instead, our will to receive forces us to participate in an endless pleasure hunt. The more we have, the more we want. The end result is that there is not a person in the world who dies with even half the things he wants to have.

Where Answers are Found

Kabbalah is an ago-old science, the archi and meta-science that is the progenitor of every science and stands above all other sciences. That is because it provides the answers not to how things work, but to WHY they were designed like that. Not only that, it tells us what is the purpose of our lives, and what we must do in order to achieve it, and consequently, as we have shown above, be eternally happy.

The beautiful thing about Kabbalah is that no lab is needed, no high-tech institutions. All you need is a keen desire to know the truth about life. (Mankind’s Search for Meaning by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD)