How Can We Convey the Key to Solving Problems to the World?
Question: You say the rest of the world does not possess the key to solving problems. How can we convey this key to the world?
Answer: I think that even if we all started shouting about this from every corner and I continued writing articles about the threat of annihilation, the people will still not wake up. After all, we know the stage of development the masses are at. Even in a developed society, people are unable to perceive the spiritual idea embedded in this. We cannot expect any response from them.
In other words, I must act regardless of the reaction. After all, I am the one acting, not them! I am activating the law of advancement according to which all mankind must make its qualities resemble the qualities of the Creator and attain His level. I activate this law because I have received this knowledge from above. A few dozen other people here also received it.
Why do they possess this understanding and awareness? Because they have reached this level in their own development. If a person has not yet developed to the necessary level, no matter what we tell him, it will be a meaningless mantra to him, one of many.
Even if such people hear about it, write it down, and repeat it, what good would it do? There is nothing more foolish. Can they possibly act in this direction? Of course not! If they are psychologically attracted to it, that is great. On an ordinary human level, this is a good thing, just like many other things.
Therefore, although we undoubtedly need to work on dissemination, our primary work is internal rather than external.
In that case, one might say: “If so, let’s curtail our dissemination efforts and pour all our energy into working in the group!” But the fact is, we cannot do without external support or without drawing in new forces from outside. Therefore, we cannot do without dissemination. In addition, lifting all the students of the outer groups by just one millimeter is equivalent to lifting ourselves by ten meters!
Therefore, we need both components of our work. Baal HaSulam writes about this that we need to spread Kabbalah among the masses. But, of course, in this environment, we cannot expect the specific reaction we desire from that environment. Things unfold there according to the laws governing the masses; whereas we operate under the laws that apply to the individual. Therefore, it is our responsibility to act.
From the masses, there will only be support; they will follow you, but to make this happen, you must distribute our material among them. Yet it is you who must lead the way. You yourself must constantly adjust and refine the direction of the goal, and pull everyone along with you! There is no other way.
Therefore, you should not shift the responsibility onto someone else. It is written that those who deal with the external aspects of the Torah instead of the internal are to blame for everything, but what difference does it make to me? Can I afford to wait for them? They will not do anything, they are incapable of it. I am duty-bound to act! That is how everyone must think.
We must also teach this in external groups: a person who receives knowledge becomes an active participant in the work. Therefore, we must lead them to sense the obligation that rests upon them.
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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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