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Reality does not have to complete its development through some catastrophic explosion. The process described in the sources as the War of Gog and Magog does not necessarily have to unfold as a global disaster. It can take place within a small “laboratory,” within the inner work of people who examine themselves and their nature. Whether it manifests internally in a limited circle or externally across the entire world depends our ability to recognize the evil within us.
What does it mean, to “recognize the evil within us”? If we possess the right “microscope,” meaning the inner tools that let us examine our egoistic nature, which constantly prioritizes self-benefit over benefiting others and nature, then we can detect this evil egoism long before it erupts into large-scale crises. Just as a scientist identifies a dangerous virus under a microscope before it spreads and harms the entire world, a person who works with the wisdom of Kabbalah can identify the destructive forces within human egoism before they break out in reality. When we see such danger in advance, we understand that it has the potential to destroy everything if it remains unchecked.
Therefore our task is to draw the light as much as possible, the force that illuminates our nature and reveals its true egoistic state. This light shows us where the problem lies and lets us correct it before it develops into suffering.
There is no external marker you can point to and say, “Here is Mount Sinai,” as if it were a physical place or event. Mount Sinai is an inner state. The very word “Sinai” comes from the linguistic root for the word for “hatred” (“Sinah”) in Hebrew. It is the tension we feel when we can no longer tolerate the evil within our own egoistic nature. Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) explains that this level of awareness depends entirely on the level of a person’s development. The more developed we are, the more clearly we see the destructive nature of egoism within us.
A person who studies and uses the wisdom of Kabbalah, who draws what in Kabbalah is called “the surrounding light” or “the reforming light,” can already see today how terrible and destructive our egoistic nature is. For such a person, no further external blows are needed to prove it.
That is why there is no point in waiting another hundred years for suffering to force humanity to this realization. If we wait until nature compels us through crises, wars, and disasters, then we will be on what Kabbalists call “the path of suffering.” However, we were given the Torah, the wisdom of Kabbalah, precisely so that we could recognize the evil in advance and correct it consciously.
In other words, we can go through this development through awareness and understanding instead of through painful natural evolution. Either way humanity will have to do the work of correction. The only question is whether we will do it through suffering or through a joyous path of increased awareness and conscious effort.
Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on December 2, 2026. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.