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Speech distinguishes the human species from the other inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of nature, and it earns us the title of “speaking beings.” All of our communication has developed through speech, words, language, and writing.
When we examine evolution in the inanimate, vegetative, and animate realms, we see that nature evolves through the connection of opposites and communication between elements. The earth, air, and water influence each other, and plants and animals are interconnected. Nature is an integral network that exists on the basis of systemic reciprocity. The action of a particular element complements the others, and this is the general form of communication in nature.
In the evolution of the human level, however, communication assumes an opposite form. As the human ego has grown, speaking with others has ceased to aim at complementing and helping, and instead the intention behind that speech is to use others and nature for self-benefit. Therefore, people have distanced themselves from nature and from one another, creating a need for many words, sentences, laws, and rules to define what is permitted and forbidden in various forms of connection and relationships.
Different nations, languages, and communication formats have developed, including spoken language, written language, communication tools, newspapers, radio, cinema, television, and social networks. At the root of all speech lies the same narrow view: “What will I get from you?” Since a similar inner language speaks within others, we fail to reach a connection that brings a sense of wholeness.
Perhaps we understand each other’s words and know our spoken language, but internally, we fail to feel a connection. The story of the Tower of Babel, the tower of human egoism, hints at this misunderstanding between people. It describes how people stopped understanding each other’s language, scattered in all directions, and developed a variety of languages and cultures.
Today, the ego has reached enormous proportions, and therefore communication between people is poor. It is filled with lies, deception, falseness, exploitation, confusion, violence, and corruption. The list goes on. Couples struggle to communicate, as do parents and children, and even work teams.
Eventually, we will reach the realization that we are all in the same boat, mutually influential and dependent. If we do not create a new form of communication, a new language, a new relationship between us and everything that is not us, then we have no positive future. Instead, we will evolve to a total collapse.
From this, the next stage in the evolution of the relationship between the individual and society will emerge. The goal will be to create a feeling that we are all one family, connected as one, truly at the level of the soul. We will need a language that drives us toward uniting hearts in love.
Originally, from such a need, the Hebrew language was formed at its foundation. Its letters, symbols, and sounds represent different modes of this optimal connection, a connection oriented at love, bestowal, and a mutually harmonious influence. Hebrew is suited for a complete and complementary connection between people, for forces that act in desire to benefit all. That is why Hebrew was called the “holy language,” and sacred texts were written in it, where the term “holy” means a state of mutual bestowal.
When there was ruin in the inner connection among the people of Israel and unfounded hatred took over their hearts, during the years of exile they refrained from speaking Hebrew except for the study of sacred texts. In daily life, they used local languages, such as Ladino, Yiddish, and others.
With the return to the Land of Israel, we returned to speaking Hebrew, but we have not yet advanced to build the loving connection that the language symbolizes. When we begin to learn how to do this, and there is a complete method for it detailed in the wisdom of Kabbalah, we will discover what is called the “inner Torah,” that which is embedded in the sacred texts, the form of connection symbolized by every Hebrew letter and word, the inner nature of reality, the operating system of all existence.
Abraham the Babylonian was the first to discover this. He taught what true communication is. He spoke of the unity of all, of kindness, peace, and love, and of the need to rise above the ego and all hatred that emerges and separates us. Those who were drawn to his idea from across humanity became a community, which later became the people of Israel. They learned to speak the language of the heart—directly from heart to heart—and as they united “as one man with one heart.” They penetrated the depths of creation. Today’s crises in relationships, which is expressed in poor communication, is pushing us and the world to rise to that same level of connection that we once enjoyed: the discovery of the language of love, the language of the heart.
Based on “New Life 130 – Heart To Heart Communication” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.