| What's it like to be a Kabbalist? Can you see | | | | "proper behavior." Any changes in his attitude |
| through walls? Do you live in seclusion, meditating | | | | occur naturally, without any coercion or external |
| all day and using just the barest necessities? Can | | | | instruction. |
| you manipulate other people's thoughts and | | | | Kabbalah maintains that any teaching or activity |
| feelings? Can you stop a train with just your | | | | that restrains a person is faulty. We cannot |
| thoughts? | | | | enforce any kind of behavior on people, since this |
| The fact is that a Kabbalist's only concern is to be | | | | is simply ineffective. Therefore, Kabbalistic |
| in harmony with the force that enlivens the whole | | | | education does not try to suppress any of our |
| of reality, called "Upper Light." When one gains | | | | habits or preferences. Rather, Kabbalah guides a |
| contact with this Upper Light, one changes from | | | | person on how to achieve balance and harmony |
| within and begins to feel new sensations. Actually, | | | | with Nature from within, and only if the person |
| what one feels are the qualities that are present | | | | desires this. Through Kabbalah, one learns about |
| in the Upper Light - qualities of love, bestowal, | | | | the qualities of the Upper Light, how to gain |
| perfection, and eternity. The Kabbalist's relationship | | | | contact with it, and how to become similar to it. |
| with the Upper Light is called the "Upper World," a | | | | Therefore, there is no coercion in teaching people |
| realm beyond time and space. | | | | the wisdom of Kabbalah. When Rav Kook, the |
| As a result of the Kabbalist's internal changes, his | | | | great 20th century Kabbalist, was asked who |
| relation toward others also changes. He naturally | | | | could study Kabbalah, his answer was: "Anyone |
| begins to feel love toward other people, as if | | | | who wants to." And in fact, it also works the |
| they were his kin. This is because he is occupied | | | | other way around: You can't really study Kabbalah |
| with his relationship with the Upper Light, and since | | | | if you don't desire it; because what you study - |
| the Upper Light is all love and bestowal, the | | | | the connection with the Upper Light - is felt |
| Kabbalist naturally adopts these qualities as well. | | | | specifically through your desire. So it would be |
| However, this isn't something that you will | | | | incorrect to urge anyone to study, since it can't |
| necessarily be able to discern on the outside. A | | | | bear any fruit. |
| Kabbalist doesn't change because someone | | | | Today, Kabbalah is available to all, and anyone |
| teaches him how to behave and preaches moral | | | | who wishes is able to learn about the Upper Light, |
| principles to him, or because he reads about | | | | its qualities, and how to achieve harmony with it. |