Does Anything Create the Value Behind Diamonds and Gold Besides Rarity?

Diamonds and gold hold value only because people agreed to view them as valuable. They bring a sense of confidence, a feeling of possessing a treasure, but the treasure exists solely in our perception, not in reality.

Look at a place like besieged Leningrad during wartime. A piece of bread became the greatest treasure. That is real value, something tied to life itself. In contrast, our shiny trinkets serve only to artificially inflate the sense of the importance of life. They will eventually lose all meaning.

I trust that we will reach a state where completely different carriers of value will arise. The genuine eternal treasure is not gold or diamonds, nothing material. True treasure is the intention to bestow to others and nature that we can attain above our inborn desire to receive for personal benefit alone.

The intention to bestow belongs to whoever attains it forever. It cannot be stolen, sold, or even transferred. It alone gives our lives meaning. Most importantly, it opens the door to the eternal and perfect life that exists beyond our transient corporeal one.

When humanity begins to spiritually rise and discover the eternal and perfect reality beyond our physical existence, then objects of our material wealth will instantly lose their value and a new “spiritual currency” will replace them.

What is spiritual currency? The Hebrew word for “money,” “Kesef,” comes from the word for “covering,” “Kisuf.” Just as money and wealth in our material lives covers our desires with the ability to somewhat provide for them, in our spiritual lives, our desires to enjoy acquire a covering of an intention to bestow, which in Kabbalah is called a “screen and reflected light” (Masach and Ohr Hozer). Through this intention to bestow, we gain the ability to cover and navigate our desire to higher and greater spiritual attainments.

Each person individually possesses this spiritual currency of the covering of the intention to bestow over their desires, and thus measures it according to their own application and attainment. We cannot exchange, buy, or sell it, but we can grow it in increasing connection with the source force of love, bestowal, and connection that dwells in the higher nature above ours, which Kabbalah calls “the Creator.”

Then, we become spiritually rich to the extent that we can connect others to ourselves, to enter them, and to fulfill them. That is genuine wealth: the connection with and fulfillment of others.

Our spiritual treasure chest lives inside everyone else. It is eternal, perfect, and will never disappear. We acquire it and make it our own through the bonds we create with others.

Then, our “diamonds and gold” are the qualities with which we fulfill others, which in Kabbalah are called “the lights of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida.” We do not fill ourselves, but we exist solely to give and to become the vessel for fulfilling others. It becomes the greatest and most fascinating experience.

In our world, diamonds, gold, and material wealth in general are symbols of power. They represent our power over others. But if we find ourselves alone in a desert, no diamonds, gold, or material wealth will save us. Power over others is wealth in the physical world, but in the spiritual world, wealth is power over ourselves, over our egoistic desires. We thus become spiritually rich when we conquer our egoistic nature and use that strength to increasingly connect with others and nature. Then, we discover a wealth of eternity and perfection.

Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on August 26, 2024. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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