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K a b b a l a h

for the

S t u d e n t

LAITMAN

KABBALAH PUBLISHERS

KABBALAH FOR THE STUDENT

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kabbalah for the student. — — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-897448-15-1

1. Cabala. I. Ashlag, Yehudah. II. Ashlag, Barukh Shalom, ha-Levi,

1907-1991. III. Laitman, Michael.

BM525.K27 2009

296.1’6 — — dc22

2008040178

Copy Editor: Claire Gerus

Associate Editor: Michael R. Kellogg

Proofreading: Natasha Sigmund

Layout: Luba Visotzki

Diagrams: Alex Rain

Cover Design: Rami Yaniv

Printing & Post Production: Uri Laitman

Translator & Executive Editor: Chaim Ratz

FIRST EDITION: AUGUST 2009

First printing

T a b l e o f C o n T e n T s

Foreword (Bnei Baruch) 5

The Tree of Life – a Poem (Rav Isaac Luria) 7

Time for Spiritual Attainment 11

Time to Act (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 13

Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 15

The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 21

The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 31

The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 51

Body and Soul (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 59

Exile and Redemption (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 65

A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 69

Peace in the World (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 83

The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 99

Introduction to The Book of Zohar (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 109

A Handmaid that Is Heir to Her Mistress (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 147

Messiah’s Shofar (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 153

Kabbalists Write about the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Assorted Authors) 157

A Prayer before a Prayer (excerpt from Noam Elimelech ) 183

Spiritual Attainment 187

Divinity in Exile (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 189

The Reason for the Heaviness in the Work (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 193

Lishma Is an Awakening from Above (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 195

Support in the Torah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 199

Habit Becomes Second Nature (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 203

The Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)205

The Essence of One’s Work (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

207

Lishma (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

208

The Time of Ascent (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

211

You Who Love the Lord Hate Evil (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

213

Raising the Slave through the Ministers (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

214

PARDESS (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

217

Sit and Do Nothing — Better (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

223

If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me? (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

224

Walking the Path of Truth (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

227

One Is Where One Thinks (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

231

An Allegory about the Rich Man’s Son in the Cellar (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

232

The Lord Is Thy Shade (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

235

The Labor Is the Most Important (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

236

Association of Mercy with Judgment (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

237

Society as a Condition for Attaining Spirituality

239

Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah) (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

241

The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee) (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 251

The Peace (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 261

The Message in Matan Torah (Bnei Baruch) 277

Unity of Friends (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 281

Love of Friends (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 282

The Influence of the Environment on a Person (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 283

Purpose of Society (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 286

Concerning Love of Friends (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 288

They Helped Every One His Friend (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 290

Purpose of Society (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 291

What Does “Love Thy Friend as Thyself” Give Us? (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 293

Love of Friends (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 294

According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend” (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 295

Which Keeping of Torah and Mitzvot Purifies the Heart (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 299

Which Degree Should One Achieve? (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 301

The First Degree When One Is Born (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 303

Concerning the Importance of Society (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 305

Concerning the Importance of Friends (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 308

The Agenda of the Assembly (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 311

Stages of Attainment 313

Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 315

The Freedom (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 375

Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 403

Preface to The Book of Zohar (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 407

Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 431

Matter and Form in the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 471

This Is for Judah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 473

The Acting Mind (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 477

Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 479

Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 489

The Evolution of the Worlds 497

Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Michael Laitman) 499

Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 565

HaIlan (The Tree) (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 645

Explanation of the Article, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 663

Preface to the Sulam Commentary (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

681

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part One, Histaklut Pnimit (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

721

General Preface (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)

745

Appendix A:Kabbalah Glossary (Bnei Baruch)

775

Appendix B:Acronyms and Abbreviations (Bnei Baruch)

811

Appendix C: Diagrams of the Spiritual Worlds (Bnei Baruch)

813

About Bnei Baruch

857

f o r e w o r d

Why are we here? What does the future hold? How can we avoid suffering

and feel tranquil and safe? These are questions we would all like to answer.

The wisdom of Kabbalah provides the answers to these questions and to many

more. It allows us to ask any question and experience the intimate, profound

fulfillment that comes with answering the deepest questions to the fullest. This

is why it is called “the wisdom of the hidden.”

Kabbalah teaches that we all want to enjoy. Kabbalists call this desire “the

will to receive delight and pleasure,” or simply, “the will to receive.” This desire

propels all of our actions, thoughts, and feelings, and Kabbalah depicts how we

can realize our desires and fulfill our wishes.

Although the wisdom of Kabbalah often tends to sound technical or

obscure, it is important to remember that this is a very practical science. The

people who mastered it and wrote about it were just like you and me. They

were seeking solutions to the same questions we all want to answer: “Why are

we born?” “What happens after we die?” “Why is there suffering?” and “Can I

experience lasting pleasure, and if so, how?” And when they found the answers

to these questions and implemented them in their own lives, they wrote the

texts within this collection, so we may know them, too.

In this compilation, you will find precise explanations as to how you can

achieve that sublime feeling of unbounded pleasure and complete control of

your life.

Kabbalah teaches how to enjoy life here and now. It explains such concepts

as “the next world,” “souls,” “reincarnation,” and “life and death.”

How can we, novices, experience such perceptions? How can we discover

the true picture of reality?

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