The Spiritual Role of Man
The spiritual hunger:
And also the soul will not be satisfied."
This can be explained by a parable: A towns man once married the daughter of a king, but everything that he brought her was as nothing to her. So it is with the soul: even if one were to bring before it all the dainties of the world they would be nothing to it. Why? Because it comes from a higher realm.
Man, who is created in the image of G-d, is searching for his spiritual roots, and the materialism that surrounds him cannot give him what he seeks, since because the soul derives from a higher spiritual realm it desires spiritual nourishment. Therefore the farther man distances himself from faith the more he succumbs to despair.
Dr. Carl Jung in his book "Modern man in search of the soul" writes that: "In the last thirty years many men from all corners of the globe have come to seek my advice. I have treated sick people by the hundreds, many of them in the second half of their lives, that is, over thirty five years of age, There was not one whose problems was not due to a depressing religious outlook on life. It is possible to state with certainty that each one of them had sickened due to the giving up of that which religion provides to the believer,... and they were only cured if they returned to recognizing religion."
Our generation has enormous opportunities for enjoyment, and yet i hungers for satisfaction more than any other: this is because it lacks the spiritual satisfaction that soul desires.