Individuals need to observe mitzvot according to their natures.
However, this does not depend on their desire to come closer to the
Creator; many believers and non believers never ask themselves
questions about the Creator, the purpose of Creation, corrections
and so forth.
These men have simply not received from above the desire to transform themselves and they perform mechanically what tradition has taught them. It is those mechanical gestures, which differentiate men, nations, man and wife, and children and adults.
Clearly, a man who wishes to elevate himself spiritually has received this aspiration from the Creator. He will therefore be different from another man who has not received the same aspiration from above.
Hence, men should not be distinguished according to their appearance, race or gender. Whether or not they should study Kabbalah is not the issue. Those who study it are simply those who have received the call from above and express the desire to study it. Among women there are also examples such as the prophetesses Deborah and Hulda who were also Kabbalists.
Angels are robots who perform certain tasks in the spiritual world: they "move" things from one place to "another", nothing more. They cannot grow spiritually or move through various spiritual levels like human beings. They are spiritual forces acting on each spiritual level.
Degrees of prophecy result from personal efforts. In our world there is only the Creator, man and the path leading man to the Creator, who is called Torah. Man's environments (society, family, friends) are only sheaths separating him from the Creator and through which he influences us. Man is placed in often complex and unbearable situations, sometimes leading to suffering and disappointments.
These men have simply not received from above the desire to transform themselves and they perform mechanically what tradition has taught them. It is those mechanical gestures, which differentiate men, nations, man and wife, and children and adults.
Clearly, a man who wishes to elevate himself spiritually has received this aspiration from the Creator. He will therefore be different from another man who has not received the same aspiration from above.
Hence, men should not be distinguished according to their appearance, race or gender. Whether or not they should study Kabbalah is not the issue. Those who study it are simply those who have received the call from above and express the desire to study it. Among women there are also examples such as the prophetesses Deborah and Hulda who were also Kabbalists.
Angels are robots who perform certain tasks in the spiritual world: they "move" things from one place to "another", nothing more. They cannot grow spiritually or move through various spiritual levels like human beings. They are spiritual forces acting on each spiritual level.
Degrees of prophecy result from personal efforts. In our world there is only the Creator, man and the path leading man to the Creator, who is called Torah. Man's environments (society, family, friends) are only sheaths separating him from the Creator and through which he influences us. Man is placed in often complex and unbearable situations, sometimes leading to suffering and disappointments.
