Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) When one feels oneself in a state of ascent, that he is high-spirited, when he feels that he has no desire but only for spirituality, it is then good to delve into the secrets of the Torah, to attain its […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) In order for a person to obtain Lishma (for Her Name), one needs an awakening from Above because it is an illumination from Above, and it is not for the human mind to understand it. But he who tastes, knows. It is […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) The essence of one’s work should be how to come to feel taste in bestowing contentment upon one’s Maker, since all that one does for oneself distances him from the Creator due to disparity of form. However, if one performs […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) It is written (Song of Songs, 2), “Until the day breathes, and the shadows flee away.” We must understand what are shadows in the work, and what is “two shadows.” The thing is that when one does not feel His […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) Through accustoming oneself to something, that thing becomes second nature for that person. Hence, there is nothing in the world that one cannot feel its existence. This means that although one has no sensation of the thing, by accustoming to […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) When a person is studying Torah and wants all his actions to be in order to bestow, one needs to try to always have support in the Torah. Support is considered nourishments, which are love, fear, elation, and freshness. And […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) It is not in one’s hands to understand how to be rewarded with Lishma (for Her Name). This is because the human mind cannot grasp how such a thing can be in the world. This is because one is only permitted to […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) We must know the reason for the heaviness felt when one wishes to work to annul one’s “self” before the Creator, and to not care for one’s own interest. One comes to a state as if the whole world stands […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) It is written, “There is none else besides Him.” This means that there is no other force in the world that has the ability to do anything against Him. And what one sees, that there are things in the world […]
Found in the book “Kabbalah for the student“ Noam Elimelech May it please You, our Lord, God of our fathers, who hears the outcry of pleas and listens to the voice of the prayers of His people, Israel, with mercy, to prepare our hearts, establish our thoughts, and send our prayers in our mouths. […]