Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) My dear son, Baruch Shalom, I have received your letter and I congratulate you for the Semicha (rabbinical ordination) that you have obtained. This was the first wall that blocked your path from marching forward. I hope that from this […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) The Baal Shem Tov gave a clear sign by which to know how much the Creator is playing with one—to examine one’s own heart and see how much one is playing with the Creator. So are all the matters, by […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) It would seem that one should be precise with the word Teshuva (repentance/return); it should have been named “wholeness”—that everything is predetermined and each soul is already in its utmost Light, benefit, and eternity. It was only for the bread […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) Keep your feet from suffering a man’s jolt prematurely, since “one is where one thinks.” Hence, when one is certain that he will not lack anything, he can focus his efforts in words of Torah, for “blessed cleave to blessed.” […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) Let me write to you with regard to the middle pillar in the work of God, so as to always be a target for you between right and left. This is because there is one who walks who is worse […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) I have already said in the name of the Baal Shem Tov that prior to making a Mitzva, one must not consider Private Providence at all. Instead, one should say, “If I am not for me, who is for me?” But […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) …I can no longer restrain myself with all that stands between us, so I will try the true, open admonition, for I need to know the true value of a word of truth in our land. This has always been […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) “Four entered a PARDESS,” [7] etc. Before the world was created, there was He is One and His Name One, because the souls were not considered souls, since the whole issue of name refers to when one turns one’s face away […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) It is written, “for one higher than the high watcheth, and there are higher than they.” As a fierce answer is required, I shall answer you that everyone believes in Private Providence, but does not adhere to it at all. […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) In the verse, “O ye that love the Lord, hate evil; He preserveth the souls of His followers; He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked,” he interprets that it is not enough to love the Creator and […]