Kabbalists on the World's Problems
Why a Kabbalist Won't Relate to This World's Problems
If a Kabbalist is someone who has achieved a perfect existence and knows exactly how nature works, then why doesn't he fix all the problems in the world?
Who are Kabbalists?
Kabbalists are people who attain the spiritual world. The spiritual world is a completely different perception of reality to the perception we receive through the five senses (i.e. the perception of this world). The spiritual world is perceived through an additional sense that one develops through working on oneself using the Kabbalistic method.
What is the difference between a Kabbalist and a person on the street?
The fundamental difference between the spiritual world and this world is an opposition of inner properties: the sensation of the spiritual world is entirely altruistic whereas the sensation of this world is entirely egoistic. In the spiritual world, one does not feel oneself as separated from others. Instead, one feels oneself as part of a (much) larger system, where each part is functioning for the wellbeing of the whole. This is the system of souls; a system concealed from our level of perception in this world.
Our World - Defined in Kabbalah
To a Kabbalist, this world is considered as only a tiny, temporary level of existence that was designed in order for people to find that they cannot be satisfied in it (i.e. that a person cannot be satisfied while only trying to satisfy him- or herself), and to develop in a person the desire to rise above this level of perception. Kabbalists say that this entire world, with all its problems, is perfect and good, however only with regard to the purpose for which it exists. As such, they don’t interfere with this world because they see that the problems and increasing crises that are taking place in this world do indeed have a purpose: to develop the desire in humanity to want to advance toward the spiritual world.
What do Kabbalists see that we don't?
Kabbalists attain and see the final purpose toward which this world (i.e. our inborn egoistic level of perception we have as separated beings) is headed, and provide a method for anyone who wants to advance toward the spiritual world. They state that everyone will reach the final purpose, and that there are two paths by which people will reach it:
1) The path of pain – i.e. following the demands of our inborn egoistic desires, and being pushed to discovering our human nature’s oppositeness of form (i.e. egoistic) to the form of the energy source that created it (i.e. altruistic).
2) The path of Light – i.e. discovering (through a time-tested method) the energy source of what creates our egoistic nature (called “Light” in Kabbalah), and learning how to work with this energy source in the same way it works upon us (i.e. reaching balance with it).
Moreover, Kabbalists in the past stated that the desire to attain the spiritual world would start becoming felt in humanity from the end of the twentieth century onward, and that the method of Kabbalah would start becoming disclosed in this time according to humanity’s need for it.
The Inner and Outer Work of a Kabbalist
This is why Kabbalists focus primarily on their inner work and attaining higher, altruistic levels of perception, and additionally in our era, also work on disseminating the method in a common language suited to increasing numbers of people who have become dissatisfied with other methods. Other than inner change—from temporary egoism to eternal altruism—and disseminating the method for inner change—Kabbalah—Kabbalists see no other means capable of improving anything in anyone’s lives.
Related material:
- Kabbalah.info - concepts in this article are based on the fundamental principles of Kabbalah taught at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute: www.kabbalah.info
