| Everyone knows that we are affected by the laws of | | | | relating to each other and establish arbitrary education |
| nature. For example, take the law of gravity. It is | | | | systems, social institutions and systems of |
| invisible and imperceptible, but it is always affecting us. | | | | government. But in fact, for all these systems to |
| It’s simply a part of our lives, whether we notice it | | | | function flawlessly and to our benefit, we have to |
| or not. And the same can be said about all other | | | | study the natural laws of the social realm and build our |
| physical laws. | | | | systems accordingly. |
| Moreover, there’s been a lot of talk about other | | | | The wisdom of Kabbalah studies the social laws, and |
| kinds of forces acting in the world, such as the power | | | | other laws that are concealed from our five senses. |
| of thought and intention. Many scientists and | | | | When one begins studying this wisdom and learns |
| philosophers are noticing that these non-physical | | | | about the laws of Nature, one discovers that they |
| forces also follow specific laws, and that thinking in a | | | | operate only to benefit him and then, naturally desires |
| certain way has specific effects on one’s life and | | | | to comply with them. |
| well-being. | | | | What makes one want to act in harmony with the |
| But what many people don’t realize is that our | | | | hidden laws of Nature? Kabbalah explains that they |
| relationships in the social realm are also affected by | | | | influence us with just one purpose: to elevate us to the |
| permanent and absolute natural laws. Just like the | | | | state of eternity and perfection. In that state, all people |
| invisible laws of gravity and electromagnetism are | | | | act as parts of one integral body, in which they feel |
| always affecting our bodies, there are invisible laws of | | | | the innate quality of Nature itself - complete, |
| Nature that constantly affect our human interactions. | | | | unconditional bestowal. |
| What would happen if you tried to ignore the law of | | | | Presently we don’t feel these laws, and therefore |
| gravity and jumped off a cliff, something not very | | | | we think that our lives are progressing from one |
| pretty? Kabbalah explains that in the same way, all our | | | | coincidence to another. But if we felt the forces of |
| problems in life are caused by the fact that we | | | | Nature that constantly drive us toward a single, exalted |
| unknowingly transgress natural laws of a higher order. | | | | goal, we would know that nothing is coincidental and |
| Hence, we could avoid most problems if we learned | | | | that our lives are systematically moving toward |
| about the higher laws of Nature, the invisible forces | | | | Nature’s goal. This goal is described by the great |
| that regulate our human relationships. | | | | Kabbalist of the 20th century, Baal HaSulam, as "The |
| Since we do not know the laws of Nature that | | | | revelation of His Godliness to His creatures in this |
| regulate human relationships, we think that we can do | | | | world. |
| as we please in this realm. We invent our own rules of | | | | |