How to Achieve a Harmonious and Peaceful World

“How can we reach peace and calm? We can achieve harmony and peace by raising ourselves to the human degree in the fullest sense of the term. The word for “human” in Hebrew is “Adam,” and it stems from the same linguistic root as the word for “similar” (“Domeh”). It means that a human being is the one who is similar to the upper force of love and bestowal. We are born in our world opposite to that state, as egoists who prioritize our self-benefit at the expense of others and nature. The more we develop and grow as egoists, the more we disbalance ourselves with nature, the upper force of love and bestowal, and that is the cause of every problem and crisis we experience in our lives. Achieving harmony and peace thus involves transforming ourselves from being opposite to the upper force to becoming similar to it, i.e., to becoming a human being, Adam. By undergoing this transformation, we then calm down the system of nature we exist in, and our problems will then disappear.