The current Russo-Ukrainian war awakens the awareness that as human beings, we desperately lack correction and positive connection. It shows how hatred can brew between two nations that have lived side-by-side for a long time, which share similarities in religion, language and history, and which play host to millions of families that were built with no regard as to whether the spouses’ respective families were Russian or Ukrainian. Despite all of their similarities, we see how these nations are emphasizing their differences, differentiating and distancing themselves from each other up to a point of hatred. And the hatred between them has reached a boiling point, igniting into war, as if they share nothing in common at all.
Why does such a dire state come about? It is because human nature—the egoistic desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature—is uncorrected at its basis. Moreover, this ego is already overblown and also constantly inflating. Thus, if it explodes, it bursts into great flames and brings about conflict and much suffering.
We then have no choice but to extinguish the flames of war by correcting ourselves, our egoistic nature, which presents itself as the ego of one nation attacking to overpower another. We need to see that the ego’s correction is the only solution to this problem, as it is the only solution that treats the problem at its very core.
We also need to understand that we cannot fix the war at its root cause—the growing uncorrected human ego—with the same egoistic powers at our disposal. Instead, through connecting to each other above our egoistic drives, which requires a guided methodology, we can invite the positive force dwelling in nature into our connections, and by doing so, we can be granted peace. Let us pray that the good inclination (desires to positively connect to each other) will overcome the evil inclination (our innate egoistic drives) from one person to another, from nation to nation, and among all nations.
Based on the Writers Meeting with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on February 24, 2022, and the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on February 25, 2022. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Photo by Artur Voznenko on Unsplash.
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