Building A Person
April 18, 2009
The entire essence of life is to teach ourselves and the younger generation. Education is the main thing a person has to do in this world. The entire process of our life is simply to become educated for something increasingly bigger. A person who is developing is called ‘becoming educated’.
There has never been a generation like the one growing up today in our time. As Baal HaSulam, the greatest Kabbalist of our time, writes, this is the Messiah’s generation. This is a generation that must change, that must go from the level of exile we are all in, and reach the level called the ‘level of redemption’. This can only be attained through a new education, a new perspective, through a new inner development inside man. The souls descending to our world today are new souls. They are very important souls, very big souls, and we must give them the appropriate filling.
These are our children’s souls and we can see how this is being expressed through hyperactivity and all the demands and their attitude to life. Kids nowadays ask, “What for?” instead of “How?” When we were younger we used to ask how to do, how to achieve. We looked for a way to progress in life. But today’s generation does not even ask how to progress, it wants to know what it has to progress for.
These children are interested in their purpose for being here but the problem is that their parents do not know how to explain it to them. That is the reason why there is such a large gap between generations. A grandfather may ask himself, what can we do with children today, we weren’t like that at all, we didn’t educate our children like that either and what is happening with grandchildren today is unacceptable. What is actually happening in our society?
We are currently in the midst of a very big education crisis and this is a global crisis. Everyone is aware of the problem but no one seems to know what to do. Humanity has no alternative education for the younger generation apart from the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is willing to serve the whole world. Kabbalah is a system through which we can educate the younger generation today, to lead it to its development and reach the purpose man was created for, for discovering divinity in our world, for adhesion with the upper force, for an entirely new life – to no longer feel that we are at such a degrading level, in such a desperate state that we don’t even know where we are or how to exist.
All this is only dependent on the implementation of the wisdom of Kabbalah. And until we reach it, we will not find a solution. All this is because we are not giving children what they demand. They themselves also don’t understand what they need exactly, but we are the ones that should be solving this issue, not them. And it cannot be solved by giving them Ritalin. The hyperactivity problem is no longer sprouting up in individuals like twenty years ago, but rather everyone nowadays. Almost every second child today is like this, and from year to year the phenomenon is increasing throughout the world. So we must understand that the generation has been born already and is built that way, and that we must supply it with what it needs. The medicine is simply calming kids down a bit, and that is very bad because in a way we are putting inner handcuffs on these children, and this will bring about an outburst elsewhere. We are stopping their natural inner impulses and they need to come out, and later on they will come out in a sick way. With more outbursts, more violence, more terror. It will come out in many ways because it has to come out.
(Words of Kabbalist Michael Laitman)
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