Due to our many sins, we have witnessed everything described in that passage in Tikkunei Zohar. The divine attribute of justice has attacked our best, as the Sages state: “[Calamity befalls the world only when wicked people are in the world], but the [calamity] begins only with the righteous first.” All of the glory of the people of Israel in Poland and Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the Holy Land.
We, those who remain, must now repair the horribly distorted situation. Each and every one who remains must commit his entire being to increasing [the study] of the internal aspect of Torah and granting it its rightful place. For that is more important than the external aspect of Torah. Each and every one of us will be worthy of increasing the level of his own internal aspect, i.e., his Jewish aspect, his soul’s needs. Those will become greater than his external aspect, the aspect of the “other nations,” the needs of the body.