Look at Yourself First!
Question: It is written at the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar that all the troubles in the world come from those who are obligated to engage in the inner part of the Torah but instead engage in its external part. How should we relate to this?
Answer: First of all, look at yourself and see that you, too, are engaging with the external part. There is still an inner part that you have not yet attained and with which you are not yet engaged.
What benefit will I gain from looking at others and blaming them? Am I pointing a finger at someone from the Ministry of Education to the ultra-Orthodox or religious-Zionist educational systems? What will that achieve?
I can accuse anyone I want, but what good will it do? How can I act in a practical way, according to my abilities, as a part of the order, the pyramid that Baal HaSulam speaks about, so that the system functions correctly? Will blaming someone else correct either them or me? All it will give me is pride and contempt.
We have received direction from above, we have, unlike those who do not know where they are. I cannot say anything bad about them; they are like infants. But about myself I can say that if I understand something, then I am obligated to act in accordance with it one hundred percent, as much as I possibly can.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?”
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