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Today the world is again approaching a state very similar to ancient Babylon, and that is why antisemitism is now rising from all directions at once. It is no local phenomenon and no mere political or social trend. It is a global, deep, and instinctive reaction built into the very process of human development.
If we look at the plan of creation through the wisdom of Kabbalah, then humanity develops according to a clear program. Kabbalists wrote not only about the spiritual roots of reality, but also about the stages through which humanity would pass. They described periods of concealment and revelation, exile and redemption, and the point at which the wisdom of Kabbalah would once again have to be revealed openly to the world.
From the ruin of the Temple onward, humanity entered a long period called exile. Exile, in its spiritual meaning that Kabbalah defines, means a loss of connection with the upper force of love, bestowal, and connection, which Kabbalah calls “the Creator.” It is a descent from the sensation of spiritual life where the force of love and bestowal thrives in the midst of positive human connection, into ordinary corporeal existence, where we prioritize self-benefit over the benefit of others and nature at every given moment. During this exile, the people of Israel mingled with the nations of the world. This mingling was necessary. Its purpose was to connect the souls of Israel with the souls of the nations, so that eventually, when the time came, the method of connection could pass through the people of Israel to all humanity.
This process has reached its final stage in our era. Kabbalah itself began to open up once again, especially from the beginning of the 20th century. The great Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) wrote a commentary on The Book of Zohar and opened the wisdom for our generation. From him onward, the revelation of Kabbalah was no longer meant only for a few individuals, nor only for the Jewish people, but for the whole world. Why? It is because the world itself had become globally interconnected and interdependent. Humanity had returned to the same condition once seen in Babylon, but this time on a planetary scale.
Back then, in ancient Babylon, Abraham saw the crisis and proposed one solution: unity above egoism, or in other words, unity above the desire to enjoy at the expense of others that brought about myriad forms of exploitation, manipulation, and abuse between people. A small part of humanity followed him, and that group later became known as “Israel.” The rest of Babylon dispersed across the world. Today, after all the exiles, dispersions, and integrations, the world has closed the circle and returned to that same crisis. Only now the entire planet is Babylon.
This means that once again there must be a group that opens the path of connection. That group is the people of Israel. Kabbalah describes the people of Israel not in a nationalistic or political sense, but in an inner sense: those who carry the method of connection, the tendency to unite (“love your neighbor as yourself”) above division (“love will cover all crimes”) in order to spread such unity worldwide (to be “a light unto the nations”). In the past, Israel lived according to this principle and therefore attained the upper world. Then it fell from brotherly love into unfounded hatred, lost the spiritual sensation, and went into exile. Now the time has come to restore that connection.
The problem is that the world feels, subconsciously, that the Jews possess an essential “something” for its salvation and are not providing it. That feeling is what appears in the nations as antisemitism. They do not know exactly what they lack, but they feel that the Jews have access to some source of life, some answer, some key, and that it is locked behind some kind of closed doors. In Kabbalistic language, they feel that the channels through which upper abundance should pass into the world are blocked.
This is why antisemitism intensifies especially during times of intensifying problems. When people feel helpless, when economic, social, ecological, and cultural systems begin to break down, an instinct awakens that someone is withholding the answer. And their inner nature directs this feeling toward the Jews. It was so a hundred years ago, and it is so again today.
What is expected of us? Only that we connect. We must reconnect among ourselves as one people, above all divisions, religious and secular, right and left, in the physical land of Israel and around the world. It is not only for our own sake, but because by doing so we reopen the channels between humanity and the upper force. As soon as a little real positive human connection awakens among us, the light begins to pass through us to the entire system of humanity.
Then the nations of the world will no longer feel that we are withholding something from them. On the contrary, they will feel that through us, life, hope, and a solution enter the world. Their attitude toward us will change accordingly.
This is what it means to be “a light unto the nations.” It has nothing to do with superiority. It means fulfilling a role that has been implanted in us. We must become the passageway through which the force of connection, the upper abundance, spreads to all humanity.
How do we begin? Through implementing positive human connection among each other. We must learn and teach what it means to live in an integral world, how to connect correctly, how to open the heart toward others, how to build mutual responsibility. This is a practical form of education for life in a world that has already become one system.
Intensifying problems worldwide show us that no one can survive alone anymore. The same is true spiritually. Either we learn how to harmoniously connect and become a conduit for the force of unity, or the pressure on us will continue to grow. That is why this wave of antisemitism is happening now. It is nature pressing us toward the realization of our role.
Based on “Global Anti-Semitism – Jtimes with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.” Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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