“… bring up the young generation to be physically and psychologically healthy, ethical, and aware of the purpose of their existence…”
Posted on October 31st, 2010 at 10:02 am
Question: Don’t
you think that we need much wider dissemination of Kabbalah without
mentioning its name, but rather explaining its ideas, the causes of the
current crisis, and the necessity to unite in our world?
Answer: I
totally agree with what you just said about the necessity of being more
open in our external dissemination. I agree that special programs with
the intent of spreading this wisdom more broadly are essential. We also
have to prepare professionals in this field.
However, before acting, we have to conduct research in order not to
drown in the sea of similar slogans and mottos urging “unity” that are
already being spread by other people that know how to use “beautiful
words.” There are so many organizations out there. The Internet is
crowded with them, but no one listens to them. Why?
The reason is that nature is just a desire to receive pleasure and
delight selfishly. A person can “hear” only within the radius of his own
desires, but he cannot go beyond them. This is how creation was built.
Screaming is useless here.
Rabash once said that while desire is not sold in the drug store, we
can only address those who are “sick.” We all are indifferent to
everything except ourselves. We cannot blame people for that. So what
options do we have?
We can only do the following:
1. Disseminate our ideas and bring together those who already have “a point in the heart.”
2. Disseminate our ideas a little wider than only to those who
already have “a point in the heart,” also to the people who are very
close to getting it.
3. We know that, so far, humanity doesn’t want to acknowledge the
global crisis and tries to hide it. The only thing that is impossible to
cover up (and that is being felt by each of us) is the predicament in
the upbringing (not education!) of our children and the critical
situation at schools, in families, and in our personal lives.
If we can manage to demonstrate to others that we are able to bring
up the young generation to be physically and psychologically healthy,
ethical, and aware of the purpose of their existence to its very width
and depth, we would definitely attract everybody’s attention. Thus,
through such upbringing (a collective one, through the attraction of
Ohr Makif,
the Surrounding Light) we would enlighten children instead of adults,
that is, we would form a new generation that will replace their parents
several years from now.
We have to set up a chain of schools all over the world. We have to
use the Internet to create an open school for everybody; virtual space
should become a platform for upbringing and education, the creation of
interest groups, communication networks, and whatever else is popular
among youngsters. We have to raise them from the material plane to
virtual space and then to spirituality.
For that, we have to launch a virtual school. Even if we happen to
attract only our friends’ children worldwide, it still will bring in
hundreds of thousands of kids that will achieve good results and that
later on will become active and educated participants of our movement.
As a child matures physically, he will grow spiritually as well.
We can implement the third item in practice and thereby push the
world towards correction, as it is said in The Bible: “Return the hearts
of fathers to their sons, and the hearts of their sons back to their
fathers.”
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