Question: Why do we need to disclose the science of Kabbalah, if it directly addresses only people with a point in the heart ( ie. people who originally want to reach the Creator) and has no direct relationship to the rest?
This is not true. It is important that we operate in the generation, in other words, in a state (because there are no hours in the science of Kabbalah, but a state, and its change is called time) when all people are suffering because we are not connected. What does it mean «not connected»? It means that we don’t give anything to each other. This also means that the opposite development is in progress, and this is a very interesting phenomenon.
It happens in this way: a man feels the desire to explore the eternal force, the Creator, and therefore wonders about the meaning and essence of life. He feels the urge for something higher, but people in this world are not the subject of his thoughts, and even if they would disappear – it wouldn’t make any difference for him. He wants to rise above them and the whole world! That is, a man is awakened by the Upper Force and thus the development of his point in the heart begins. He’s attracted and moves ahead.
On the other hand, there is development when a person is awakened and pushed from behind by the miseries and sufferings as are evident everywhere around the world. While developing in his point in the heart, the person feels the need for light, the urge for the so-called upper partsuf. But others are dissatisfied by a bad life as they feel it. These are different types of development – supposedly opposing each other: in one case – a thrust forward, and in another – a pushing from behind.
But pushing from behind is special. This is not the push which some individuals received in past generations as a stimulus of spiritual advancement. Today all of humanity feels this shoving pressure. But even before people received miseries just to move them forward, didn’t they? It’s true, but nowadays there is the realization that the troubles come from the lack of unity among people: the global crisis is the overall problem! In this general distress it becomes evident that it arises because we are not connected. In other words, through the physical impact reveals the need in spirituality.
It turns out that if people, that is, the whole world, want to succeed in earthly life, they should unite with each other – it is very clear and, I would say, it is spiritually healthy connection. We can’t say that humanity doesn’t need that, on a contrary, it’s all that it needs.
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