Kabbalah Is Not A Doctrine But A Power
Rabbi Simeon began to weep, saying : "Woe is me if I reveal these mysteries and woe is me if I do not reveal them." (Zohar (III, 127b)
When the Baal Shem Tov, Master of the Good Name and founder of Hassidism, had a difficult task before him or saw a misfortune about to befall the Jewish people, he went to medidate in a certain part of the forest ; there, he lit a fire, lost himself in prayer and what he had decided to do became possible: the miracle was performed, the misfortune was removed.
A generation later, when his disciple, the Maggid of Mezeritch, had to intervene with the Heavens for the same reason, he would go the same same place in the forest and say: "Master Of The Universe, hear me. I no longer know how to light the fire, but I am still capable of saying the prayer."
And the miracle was performed yet again.
In the following generation, in order to save his people, Rabbi Moshe Lev of Sassov also went in the forest and said: "I do not know how to light the fire, I do not know the prayer, but I remember the place and that ought to be enough."
And it was enough.
Then it was the turn the turn of Rabbi Israel of Rijine to lift the threat. He sat in his gilded chair within his castle, put his head in his hands and addressed G-d in these terms: "Master Of The World, I am incapable of lighting the fire, I do not know the prayer, I cannot even find the place in the forest. All that I know how to do os to tell this story, that ought to be enough."
And yet again, the miracle was performed.
It is now our turn to assume the infinite responsibility of continuing to transmit the spark, the fire, the histpry of the narrative.
Rabbi Hanina teaches: "I have learned much from my masters, even more from my fellow scholars, but it is from my own students that I have learned the most." - Talmud, Taanit (7a)
(MYSTERIES OF THE KABBALAH ; MARC-ALAIN OUAKNIN)
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