The way our desires evolve both defines and designs the entire history of humanity. As humankind’s desires developed, they urged people to study their environment so they could fulfill their wishes. Unlike minerals, plants, and animals, people constantly evolve. For every generation, and for each person, desires grow stronger and stronger.
People began to want to change nature and use it for themselves. Instead of wanting to adapt themselves to nature, they began wanting to change nature to fit their needs. They grew detached from nature, separated and alienated from it and from each other. Today, many, many centuries later, we are discovering that this was not a good idea. It simply doesn’t work.
Mr. Gorbachev noted in 2005: “History increases in velocity and there is danger of falling behind in consciousness.” “Today,” he said, “we need new thinking for a new century,” including new vision for politics, business, and civil society. “The future needs to be for all of us or we won’t have it at all,” concluded Mr. Gorbachev.
Well, let’s move close to the clearer point of view:
“The reason for this crisis is human egoism which increases every generation. But we cannot fight it directly and force people to love one another. We cannot force love. That is why we have to utilize the power of society over individuals. Each and every one of us is greatly affected by society: each of us wants respect from society; each of us is influenced by the opinions of society. If we can make it so that the most appreciated thing in the world will be giving-more appreciated than any other act of man, then people will want to give, they will want to bestow and to share, because they will want the respect of society. We have to see how we can cancel, revoke all of the prizes in society, except for one prize: the appreciation of a person’s contribution to society. So when we point to a person and say that he or she gives to others that would be the greatest reward of all. That will make people give to one another, and love one another. Because we see how society influences people. I think we can do that. I hope that together we can build a new civilization.” (Rav Michael Laitman)
The history of Kabbalah goes hand in hand with the history of mankind. It literally goes back to the emergence of the first man, and reaches a state of entering Eretz Israel, the spiritual land of Israel, the so-called World of Atzilut, where mankind resides within its eternal realization, outside the boundaries of time and space, immortal and perfect.
It is said that his name was Adam, Adam ha Rishon in Hebrew, the first human being who marked the beginning of the entire human race. He is the author of the first book on Kabbalah.
The year 1995 was marked by Kabbalists as a very special year; a year that is a historic cornerstone from which begins a genuine change in man’s relation to the world, in his relation to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and his relation to his destiny.
That change is a consequence of a process of evolution that man goes through, which compels him to bond with the leadership of creation, to take an active part in it, to rise to the same degree where he will be master and guardian of the whole world. If he does not aspire for that, then the collective law of creation will make him do it by torments that will force him to think of such questions as: “What am I living for?” “What do I exist for?”, and examine the purpose of his life and ask why is he living so poorly.
