Entries by Katie

The Acting Mind

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   Every person is obliged to attain the root of his soul. This means that the aspired-for purpose of the created being is Dvekut (adhesion) with His qualities, “As He is merciful, etc.” His qualities are the Holy Sefirot, and this is the acting […]

This Is for Judah

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   That bread, which our fathers ate in the land of Egypt. The Mitzva of eating Matza [23] was given to the children of Israel even before they departed Egypt, relating to the future exodus, which was to be in haste. It follows that the Mitzva of eating […]

Matter and Form in the Wisdom of Kabbalah

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   As a whole, science is divided into two parts: one is called “material research” and the other, “formative research.” This means that matter and form are perceived in every element of the entire reality before us. For example, a table […]

Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   1) It is written at the end of the Mishnah (Okatzin), “The Creator did not find a receptacle that holds a blessing for Israel, but peace, as it is written, ‘The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will […]

Preface to The Book of Zohar

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   1) The depth of wisdom in the holy Book of Zohar is enclosed and caged behind a thousand locks, and our human tongue too poor to provide us with sufficient, reliable expressions to interpret one thing in this book to its end. […]

Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   The second concealment, which the books refer to as “concealment within concealment,” means that one cannot see even the back of the Creator. Instead, one says that the Creator has left him and no longer watches over him. He ascribes […]

The Freedom

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   “Harut (carved) on the tables”; do not pronounce it Harut (carved), but rather Herut (freedom), to show that they are liberated from the angel of death. – Midrash Shemot Raba, 41 These words need to be clarified, because how is the matter of reception of the […]

Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)   1) At the outset of my words, I find a great need to break an iron wall that has been separating us from the wisdom of Kabbalah, since the ruin of the Temple to this generation. It lies heavily on […]

The Agenda of the Assembly

Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (The RABASH)   In the beginning of the assembly, there should be an agenda. Everyone should speak of the importance of the society as much as he can, describing the profits that society will give him and the important things he hopes society […]