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To understand the dangerous situation we have found ourselves in, we need to zoom out.
All of reality is one system. One general force operates throughout nature, and we exist under its providence.
If we are wise, that force is far wiser. Moreover, if we know how to make plans, that force already knew them. We contain nothing beyond what it originally implanted in us, because we are its result, its children. That single force is given many names, including “God,” “Creator,” and “Nature.”
This perspective on reality as an integral system is essential for advancing our understanding of everything happening to us.
There is thus one force that creates and organizes nature from the beginning of the evolution we discover, and perhaps even before that. Everything operates according to laws, according to a comprehensive operating program. We can call it “evolution” or a “divine plan,” but how we name it does not matter. What matters is how we find a way to discover that higher force. This is the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah, our inner wisdom that investigates the foundations of reality.
The more we discover the higher force and the overall evolutionary trajectory it leads us through, the more we understand why various states come to us, and what we should finally do to evolve optimally, without blows and pushes from behind, but through conscious progress, with clarification and awareness.
The discovery of the higher force takes place according to a law called “equivalence of form.” This law states that the perception of any phenomenon requires the emergence of a similar form within us. For instance, this is how a radio receiver works. To receive the wave transmitted by a specific radio station, the receiver generates the frequency of that wave within itself.
The higher force’s nature is bestowal, i.e., pure love and giving. To discover it, we need to create among ourselves a similar connection, a deep connection to the level of love. Moreover, we should do this above our differences of opinion, and all kinds of rejection that surfaces, i.e., above all ego and hatred.
Therefore, the general law is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is no mere pleasant moral recommendation, but the definition of the only code of connection through which we can discover the single force. It is that which we can access the operating system governing everything happening to us and the whole of creation. The more we learn about how we can optimally connect, for which the wisdom of Kabbalah details a complete method, the closer we come to this higher force. Then, and only then, we can also feel its influence on us as benevolent.
There is no way to fundamentally solve today’s problems without approaching the higher force. Our myriad problems today point to a single broken place: the egoistic relations between us, and it is precisely this place that must be corrected.
Abraham was the first to speak of the unity of all people. He taught how to connect through a common attitude of love. A community of thousands of students from all nations and tribes in the area gathered around Abraham and this idea he taught. As Maimonides explains in the Book of Knowledge, our nation was later formed from these people who gathered around Abraham.
Since then, we have a mission within this universal puzzle. It is our responsibility to present an example of life in connection and love, i.e., a life aligned with the single higher force and its tangible revelation within the nation. We went through ascents and descents in this matter, until hatred destroyed our connection and sent us into exile around 2,000 years ago.
After a long exile, we were brought back here, to the Land of Israel, and not by chance. The world we live in has become interconnected and interdependent, connecting everyone to everyone, but ego games threaten to destroy everything built by humanity. Human beings need a new way of life, access to the higher force that will unite everyone. That is the underlying reason why humanity focuses so much on what happens here on this tiny piece of land called “Israel.”
The blows we receive, from inside and outside alike, indicate that we are behind. We fail to stand up to the demands of the times. Nothing will help us other than the awareness that we face a higher force. It is the one fighting us, through all the figures and situations. We need to come to terms with it and align with it by uniting and connecting among each other, above all differences.
We will receive strength, intellect and emotion, and mind and heart, from this higher force, if we only wish to draw near it. This mind and heart will be a new and integral, capable of perceiving reality as a single mechanism, and always thinking of the good of all. Such an approach will organize us from within, and it is what will shine from here worldwide. It will even calm down everyone who hates us, turning them into supporters. Gradually, humanity will learn how to live as one collective, and we will rise to our next level of existence as the crown of creation.
This is the evolutionary map discovered by the great sages of the nation of Israel, as explained in the wisdom of Kabbalah. All that remains for us is to help each other internalize this picture.
Based on “New Life” episode 58 with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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