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Last generation - time of the biggest opportunity
QUESTION: "You often talk about the last generation, and I'm wondering if you could just talk about what that is. Sometimes it feels like it's the last chance. Sometimes it feels like the greatest chance. Sometimes it seems that maybe additional tools, or some limits or boundaries, have been released or relaxed, so that it's possible to complete this light coming into the vessel, to discover the light and create something new. I don't know. If you could just talk about what this means: Last."
RABBA: "You most probably know that a definition of Shekhinah (Divinity), or the way the Higher defines itself through Shekhinah, is called Ani, or I, in its translation, meaning it's the real presence of infinity, of the Ein, but in a different order, in an order that is an ark that can carry the Higher. So in Hebrew, to be the last is to be the first, because this is the definition of the Higher. “I am the last, and I am the first," meaning the last generation is, in itself, in a way, the last chance of feeling by choice and being very, very close to the first.
This is why this generation has been able to see the extension of the Zohar in such a way, or (it was exposed) to such publics, that it was never allowed nor possible. What is the ‘trumpet of the Messiah’? - it is the extension of Kabbalah to everyone. Meaning that if we observe carefully, when Kabbalistic wisdom is being opened, we can be sure that it is not because the generation is of high attainment, but it's because of the real genuine need of the time. So it's like spreading your seeds everywhere, wherever they can capture their essence and grow something.
So, in a way, you can say: last chance, a very desperate time, and on the other hand, it's the biggest opportunity-time. Because it's like the ouroboros snake, it's actually at the point when the head and the tail are being joined. So therefore, the definition of the self, the I, should change itself from limitation to limitless infinity, as it should be. How should it enter the body of the snake?
The body of the snake is the ark, so what actually can happen inside it?
I would like to go to the meaning of our generation as a calling, which is looking at the way humans treat each other, treat the earth, as a few minutes before the deluge. Therefore, the Zohar becomes a calling into the ark, and this is how the Zohar views itself.
It's not calling us just to come into it, it's calling us to make it, to build it. Therefore, the last generation has the opportunity to be a partner in building something which the previous generation did not have.