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First of all, sorry if this is not exactly related to the topic this week. But the following questions are related to the overall purpose of Kabbalah and the will to receive / bestow. Thanks ahead of time for any answers!
What does Kabbalah say about existential issues – such as poverty? If you could sacrifice your life and donate all your possessions to a starving family of 10 in Africa, thereby giving them much more total pleasure and happiness than you could possibly perceive, then should you?
Or with climate change. How can so many people in developed countries continue to live their lives and contribute to capitalist economies / materialistic societies – when the consequences of these societies are so catastrophic? At what point should someone literally go to war in a fight against oil companies, or plastic companies, or the factory farming industry? The consequences of their actions are destroying so much of the web of life on Earth and Humanity’s overall potential to go through the Great Transition. At what point does the value of our individual pleasure / desires (myself for example) become overshadowed by a duty to help preserve the Earth and future humans from the short-sighted and destructive actions of modern society?
A deeper sense of the invisible (yet very real) connections between ourselves and 1.) other people, 2.) the web of life here on Earth, 3.) all of Nature, 4.) the Universe, 5.) and beyond.
It seems like this lesson will provide a general understanding of Kabbalah, in order to better understand later concepts.
