Kabbalah: Would it Be a Picnic Without Ants?

Summer is here! After feeling isolated during the long winter months, summer is a season that brings us a renewed connection with each other and Nature. Summer is a season for picnics! Picnics come in all shapes and sizes, from small gatherings around a picnic basket filled with goodies to huge community and public events. Yet, no matter the size of the picnic, one thing is always the same; yes, I mean ants! A picnic is what educators refer to as a positive place experience, a special opportunity to explore and connect to each other and to Nature. Is this why picnics are so popular? Would it be a picnic without ants?

When we explore Nature, we discover that the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels of Nature are all driven by instinct. Ants are a great example of this; ants are social insects that live and work together in harmony. Ants work together in colonies to care, feed and educate younger ants, to carry out social planning, garbage disposal, engineering, farming, cultivating, and foraging - food from our picnics! Watching ants, we discover that somehow, their actions seem to follow a general force that operates and sustains this level of nature in harmony. What is this force? And what can we learn from it?

The Single Force
"This is an altruistic force that impels all parts of Nature to exist as organs in a single body, in balance, and in harmony."

Michael Laitman PhD, "From Chaos to Harmony"

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains that the single force of Nature aspires to bring everything into balance. To maintain this balance, everything in Nature operates as part of a single interconnected, comprehensive system. It is easy to see this in the ant colony. An ant separated from the colony would not survive for long. It is not meant to exist as an individual. Instead, each ant fulfills a specific role in the colony. With each ant's contribution, the colony stays strong and, as a whole, the ants in it prosper.