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Today, the method of Kabbalah, which is a method of connection in order to discover the single force of love and bestowal that dwells in nature, is open to everyone. Through the application of this method, people become Jews in the spiritual sense. However, this was not always the case. In ancient Babylon, around 4,000 years ago, only a small part of humanity used it. Throughout history, many people from different nations joined this path. If we look at ancient history, from the exodus from Egypt, through the existence of the Kingdom of Israel, and up to the ruin of the Second Temple, we see a period when vast numbers of people from many tribes joined the process of spiritual ascent. Among them were many great Kabbalists.
When people joined, it did not mean they became Jews in a biological sense. To “join” means to take this method and begin to realize it within oneself. This is exactly what happened in ancient Babylon, when Abraham, himself a Babylonian priest, gathered a few thousand people around him. He created a group united by a single spiritual goal, and from this group a nation was formed. A nation in this sense, means individuals united by one goal: spiritual ascent. Whoever wants this goal joins it. On the level of our world, there is actually no such thing as a Jewish nation in the ordinary national sense.
Even today, what we call Jews are not a nation but a gathering. When will we become a nation? It is when we unite by the force of mutual love, i.e., the very single positive force that dwells in nature. There is no other force that can bind us together. In other nations, there is a natural bonding force that comes from below. It might be shared land, blood, language, or culture. But here, the bond needs to come from above.
That is why, for example, an Italian can become a Jew in the full sense if he takes upon himself the method of spiritual ascent. He may say, “I am no longer Italian; I am a Jew.” This has nothing to do with parents, blood, or origin. The laws of conversion to Judaism are based on this spiritual principle. When a person accepts this path, they cannot simply “go back,” because this is an inner transformation. It is an irrational model from the perspective of this world, but it exists because it is built on spiritual laws, which we constantly try to force into corporeal frameworks where they do not quite fit.
People do not yet understand this, and it sounds strange to them. But we are gradually approaching a time when humanity will begin to clarify the entire historical picture: why things unfolded this way, what it all leads to, and why it must be so. For now, humanity mostly has questions, and almost no answers.
Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Children of Israel, Part 2” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on October 1, 2010. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.