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The Hebrew word for money, “Kesef,” comes from the word for “covering,” “Kisuf.” It stems from the idea that money is a covering over our desires.
Money is not merely cash or the numbers in our bank accounts. If we can cover our desires and aspirations for what we want with what Kabbalah terms a “screen” (“Masach”), i.e., a force that can resist the egoistic inward suction of fulfillment for ourselves alone, then with this force, we pay for our desires. We can then rise above our inborn egoistic desires to receive with an altruistic desire to bestow and accordingly achieve any fulfillment we aspire for according to the strength of our desire.
Covering our desires with a screen means that we can only truly fulfill our desires via its covering, which is the transformation of the intention behind the desire: from the desire for ourselves alone to the desire to benefit others and nature.
Therefore, if we wish to earn in a way that is truly beneficial to other people and the nature we are parts of, i.e., in a way where we “earn life,” we need to understand the definition of money and covering described here, and what the change of our egoistic intention to its altruistic opposite entails. By acquiring a screen that covers our egoistic desires, changing them into altruistic ones, then in the new altruistic force we experience, we start receiving much loftier fulfillments than the ones we experience in our narrow egoistic perception. That is true wealth.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on June 3, 2019. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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