Why Is There Antisemitism in Countries Where There Are Not Even That Many Jews?

“Israel were made by the Creator, the heart of the whole world. And so are Israel among the nations, like a heart among the organs. And as the organs of the body cannot exist in the world even a minute without the heart, all the other nations cannot exist in the world without Israel.” – The Zohar, Pinhas, “Why Israel Are More in Sorrow than the Rest of the Nations,”  item 152.

The connection to the source of life, the force of love, bestowal, and connection, goes through Israel. Israel here is meant in the spiritual sense (“Israel” from the words, “Yashar-El” [straight to the upper force]), not as a geographic location or nationality, but as the innermost desire that resides within people that attracts us beyond bodily fulfillments and materialistic pleasures to the discovery of the eternal force of love, bestowal, and connection.

When people, anywhere in the world, feel an accumulation of suffering and emptiness in their lives, they can start subconsciously feeling that Jews are holding back something from them, that their suffering is somewhat linked to Jews acting incorrectly. The phenomenon of antisemitism in countries with very little Jews is testimony to this principle.

Although they hold no conscious awareness of this reason, the true reason is that they feel that they cannot find the connection to the source of life itself, which is why genuine and lasting fulfillment eludes them, the fulfillment of the soul. This is the kind of fulfillment humanity is increasingly feeling a need for today. Therefore, antisemitic sentiment rises within them, and they think that there is a growing problem with Jews in general, and with the State of Israel in particular. It is also why many people increasingly feel that there is no other choice but to eliminate the State of Israel in order to find a way to exist on their own.

Antisemitism is a nature-set pressure on Jews, which is sourced beyond human rational understanding, at the level of emotions and desires that act on human intellect, functioning in order to prod a profound connection of love, bestowal, and unity among the Jewish people. Such a connection would then let the source force of love, bestowal, and connection stream through their unity to humanity as a whole. This is the meaning of the Jews being “a light unto the nations.”