According to Levels of Society
Question: Baal HaSulam writes about the group, the teacher, and the books. If we say the masses will not learn the way we do, can it be that these plans will change?
Answer: Of course the masses should not study the science of Kabbalah. And in general, one should not see studying as studying for the sake of learning, in which case “one’s knowledge is greater than his deeds.”
First of all, studying is a means of leading a person to the decision that one needs to change in accordance with the upper force to merge with It and to attract some higher forces in order to correct himself.
The upper forces that descend for correction come according to the raising of MAN, a request for correction. In other words, all this should not be tied to a book or a study at all. What is there to learn? These are extremely practical things that happen in a person: I have a desire, and it happens! Still, there must be preparation and explanations.
In what form will it reach society? In a more practical way. There are people whose duty it is to immerse themselves in books and extract these ideas from them, to fervently discern them in such a way that they can be conveyed to an ever wider public, that is, to make them simpler and clearer in accordance with the levels of society.
The lower the level of society, the more practical they become. After all, they are less able to perceive the abstract part of it, so much so that, as Baal HaSulam writes in the article “The Last Generation,” there will be those who do not perceive anything at all.
“Do you want me to sign? I will sign it.”
“Why?”
“I do not know why. I see that you act like that, and so will I.”
That is, there will be people who will join in only nominally.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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