The Zohar and other Kabbalistic works are replete with comments indicating that in future times the prerequisite for leaving Exile will be that the the inner teachings of the Torah would have to be revealed in their fullest sense. Based on what we have written so far we can understand that this is due to the fact that Kabbalistic thought is the Torah of the Schechina. These are not teachings which relate only to few individuals or certain aspects of people, rather they are teachings that relate to the entire body - the essence of the Schechina. The Kabbalistic teachings come to educate people in how to focus their essential selves as part of the Schechina as opposed to individual work for one's own perfection.
Every aspect of Kabbalistic thought is directed towards לשם יחוד קודשא בריך הוא ושכינתיה, for the sake of the uniting the Holy One, Blessed be He and his Schechina, to focus on the rectification of the Schechina rather than on one's self individually. This concept is expressed as עבודת צורך גבוהה, namely that the most significant acts we can do, the ones that come from the deepest recesses of our souls are not distinct from the Schechina and the Nation, but are serving the entire Jewish Nation. This can be compared to a cell that serves the entire body and whose purpose is not self-preservation, but that of the entire corpus.
This is the life of גאולה, redemption, with the Jewish Nation on its land. A life of Inner Torah in which one is focused on the entire Schechina rather than on an individual cell alone. Redemption depends on achieving this consciousness which is why it is dependent on the Zohar and the revelation of Kabbalistic concepts.
Every aspect of Kabbalistic thought is directed towards לשם יחוד קודשא בריך הוא ושכינתיה, for the sake of the uniting the Holy One, Blessed be He and his Schechina, to focus on the rectification of the Schechina rather than on one's self individually. This concept is expressed as עבודת צורך גבוהה, namely that the most significant acts we can do, the ones that come from the deepest recesses of our souls are not distinct from the Schechina and the Nation, but are serving the entire Jewish Nation. This can be compared to a cell that serves the entire body and whose purpose is not self-preservation, but that of the entire corpus.
This is the life of גאולה, redemption, with the Jewish Nation on its land. A life of Inner Torah in which one is focused on the entire Schechina rather than on an individual cell alone. Redemption depends on achieving this consciousness which is why it is dependent on the Zohar and the revelation of Kabbalistic concepts.
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