Israeli Doctors Save Iraqi Child’s Life - A Kabbalist’s Response

Israeli Doctors Save Iraqi Child’s Life - A Kabbalist’s Response

Jan 24, 2022
Faruk, a 14-year-old from Northern Iraq, was dying due to congenital heart disease and doctors in Iraq had already given up hope. A Middle East Organization, which helps children undergo lifesaving treatment in Israel by doctors in one of the hospitals, saved his life. On returning home to Iraq, his father said: “I am saying this from here, from Iraq to Israel. I kiss the eyes of your doctors, one by one. Israeli people are a merciful nation.” Such stories are indeed heartwarming, and raise the question: why can we not normalize the relations between these two countries? On one hand, such stories touch the hearts of many, but on the other hand, they fail to touch the hearts of leaders. In short, we should not look to leaders for a positive solution, but instead look to tuning ourselves toward positive connection. Otherwise, we can expect to see our world heading toward greater and greater evil. We need to understand human nature and the nature of the world. The only reason we are “stuck” in a negative tendency toward worsening relations among people, societies and nations is due to the people of Israel. The ball is in our court: we need to reach positive connections among each other first and foremost. It is very difficult because we accumulate within ourselves the entire ego of the world, all of its evil. Nonetheless, we need to perform a special heart operation on the people of Israel by inviting the positive force dwelling in nature to improve our connections. We do so by becoming an example to all people that we wish to come closer and positively connect. It is the only way to save ourselves from all problems and troubles. We are hated only to the measure in which we hate each other. The nations of the world are not evil. As a result of our negative connections, we project our evil onto them. We are the ones who can bring about correction, since we are the nation who originally reached “love your neighbor as yourself,” and we need only want to achieve that state again. If we implemented such a correction of our relations to each other, then we would see myriad positive responses to us, with one of them being the feeling of Muslims not just as our cousins, but as our brothers.