I was a child, probably about 7 years old, and I was starting to attend classes at Hebrew school. I felt like what they were teaching was a bunch of nonsense. They were telling stories about things that happened to people thousands of years ago and not relating anything to people in the present.
What I consistently find so interesting as I study Kabbalah is how it relates to and retells the scriptural stories and prophecies.
Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists all have prophecies about how the Messiah (aka Christ, Buddha, Vishnu, etc) is going to return to our world, defeat evil, and bring about a “Golden Age” or “New Jerusalem” that will be Heaven on Earth.
And in each of these prophecies the world is in a state of low morality, chaos, war, disease, famine, and natural disasters just prior to the “correction” that the Messiah is going to disseminate.
The Buddhists have a metaphor about the “drawing back of the bow” where we have to go backwards before we can be propelled forward.
I see humanity in this state of “drawing back the bow.”
I found the retelling of the story of Babylon, Abraham, and Nimrod from the Kabbalist perspective was fascinating.
And this course is giving me a bit better perspective and understanding of the 10 Sefirot and how they relate to the different worlds as well as each person in the present corporeal manifestation.