The Kabbalah doesn’t go into such particulars. It teaches the general law that governs the Jewish People – one we have not really been obeying. We were chosen to bring the world to perfection – to be a light unto the nations. Moses offered the Torah to all people, but it was only the Jews who accepted it. In the meantime, however, we haven’t been fulfilling our role.

According to The Book of Zohar, all the world’s troubles are the result of this. The current situation of the world is one of serious crisis and uncertainty in all realms. There is terrorism, drug use, an unraveling of the family and a decline in education.

On the one hand, the people of the world are becoming increasingly connected to each other because of globalization; on the other, individuals can’t even be connected to their own families or with themselves because of egoism.

This dichotomy has led to the sorry state we are in. Here, The Zohar says, is where tikkun [correcting the ills of the world] must emerge. This concept is not new. It was revealed in ancient Mesopotamia following the fiasco of the Tower of Babel – the first incident of humankind’s aim to build and control through pride and egoism. It was then that the Kabbalah was revealed to Abraham, who sought to correct this ego-driven state of mankind. He was unsuccessful, and humankind began a process of development through egoism. This is how we arrived where we are today – at a dead-end – with a renewed search and necessity for the wisdom of the Kabbalah.

This post is an excerpt from a larger article found at http://www.kabbalah.info/