Since 500 B.C. history records approximately 1196 rebellions, revolutions, revolts, uprisings and protests across the known world. Only a tiny fraction of these contestations of power have resulted in victories for the rebels. Nonetheless, as people struggle under the burden of systemic violence, the unrest remains seething if albeit petrified in our global midst. And though very few will admit it, calling these rebellions, revolutions, revolts, uprisings and protests the REAL history of our world is not unjustified. “You will be smashed like a piece of pottery— shattered so completely that there won’t be a piece big enough to carry coals from a fireplace or a little water from the well.” Isaiah 30:14 Clinging to the broken shards, klipot, are sparks of the light left over from inside the bowls. These precious sparks are to be gathered and restored to their original place, higher in the cosmos. A broken world, which today we experience as petrified unrest must be repaired, or, as we now see, we will suffer the consequences.

Inclusion by Hugh Levick