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The Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag
The Crossing of the Red Sea was an extraordinary event, a miracle, described in detail in the book of Exodus. The waters parted to allow the...
The Torah is not a history book. The outer events of our forefathers’ lives are recorded in the Torah, but the meaning of these events and t...
We all experience our thoughts as being our own. They feel like ours. We don’t usually consider where our thoughts arise from, and we either...
I live in tsfat but today I am traveling to Jerusalem. I am  looking forward to seeing my sisters ,  my daughter-in law and my lit...
and what is the Torah? The Zohar teaches us that  the essence of the Torah, the essence of God, and the essence of the soul are one. Bu...
When we first look at the Haggadah, it seems to be a collection of somewhat disconnected paragraphs, with the overall motif being the story...
The archetype of exile is the Children of Israel’s servitude in Egypt. The Sages teach us that this exile was in fact a spiritual exil...
Before the story of Joseph and the brothers, brotherhood does not seem to have been an important value in family life. In the selling of Jos...
In Genesis Chapter 12, the Torah relates: “And there was a famine in the land, and Abram descended to Egypt to sojourn there because the fam...
The story of the two brothers Cain and Abel is written in Genesis. This is what it says: “And Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the...
The word with which the Torah opens is Bereishit. This word is one of the most discussed words in the Zohar because it contains within itsel...
On the night of Shavuot 1948, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag the great Kabbalist gave this teaching: When we think about the giving of the Torah w...
Seder night is the night in which the greatest light of God, the light of redemption, comes into the world. It is the night in which God del...
Most of us try to push away the dark side of ourselves by denying that it even exists, or we cover it up with fear, shame, and guilt. Feelin...
The story of Joseph and his brothers is a story filled with passion, anger and reconciliation. Most of all, it is a story that describes the...
Why is it important for ourselves to know what we are made of? What we really are?  Can such knowledge help us live our lives in an aut...
Many people contact me and ask me if Judaism has a spiritual path. What they have in mind is the connection with the soul. The spiritual war...
Drawn to the study of Kabbalah from a very early age, Rabbi Ashlag understood the Kabbalah’s unique integrating function of heart and mind,...
When we look at the mourning on Tisha b’Av, we are actually mourning the disconnect with our spiritual source. Destruction of the temple in...
Our world, both politically and culturally, is in turmoil. Our value systems are being turned upside down. Freedom of speech in the West is...
When the Holy Blessed One gave the Torah, the bird did not sing, the eagle did not fly, the ox did not low,  the Ofanim did not stir, t...
I remember when I still lived in my parent’s house in London, my father, who was a religious man, taught us that it was forbidden to learn K...
A podcast from the Zohar The Zohar teaches us that when we act in holiness, that is in giving unconditionally, we cause blessing and holines...
The code of Jewish law, known as the Shulchan Aruch, states that we need to prepare the prayers of the High Holy days in advance so that whe...
This piece of Zohar is traditionally read studied during the night of Shavuot when we stay up in the night studying the Torah in order to pr...
As we move through Seder night, we drink the four cups of wine and we relate to the elements on the Seder plate, we are not usually cognizan...
Have you ever wondered what standing at Mount Sinai felt like? Tradition teaches that all the souls of the Jewish people, past, present and...
Tu Bshvat is the New Year for trees. But why should trees have a new year? There seems to be a comparison made between the tree and the huma...
On this week of the Parasha Toledot, we read the story of Ya’acov and Esau. This story is such a perplexing one when we read the simpl...
This Saturday night starts the fast of Tisha B’ Av. This is a day in which we mourn the destruction of the Temple. But are we really mournin...
Zohar: Rabbi Shimon said: Woe to the man who says that the Torah comes to tell literal stories and stories of people like Esau and Laban and...
One evening in 1892 in a suburb of Warsaw, a seven-year-old boy was lying in bed when, suddenly, a book fell off the bookshelf, hitting him...
When we read books of kabbalah, as for example English  translations of the Zohar , or look at diagrams of the Sephirot, we often end u...
Why is it important to understand the language of Kabbalah? Many people learn about Kabbalah using terms such as light, Sephirot, the Tree o...
“Happy is the man who does not forget You and the son of man makes an effort in You.” In this happy and optimistic letter for th...
Rabbi Ashlag in the Perush haSulam, his great commentary on the Zohar, teaches: During the 12 months of the year we work on the tikkun of th...
When we look back on our lives, we find many things we wish we had done differently.  Yet ultimately everything that transpired did so...
The holy Zohar says, Rabbi Yehudah opened his discourse, “the Scripture says (Psalm 100:2), “Serve the Lord with happiness, come...
The Torah was given to the Children of Israel in the month of Sivan, in the third month of coming out of Egypt. The holy Zohar takes this to...
Each year as we sit down at the seder table we read in the Hagaddah, “In every generation every person is obliged to see himself as if he ca...
Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag, in his teachings on the Parshat Shavua, Vayikra, wrote as follows: The Scripture says, “And God called Mos...
When the children of Israel arrived at Mount Sinai, the Torah says ” ויחן העם מול ההר.  And the people encamped opposite the moun...
“In every generation, a person is obliged to see himself or herself, as if he or she is coming out of Egypt.” Passover Haggadah...
“Then Yehudah drew near to him, (Yoseph) and said: ‘Oh my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord’s ea...
“The three components of the chanukah candle are the vessel itself, the wick and the oil. All three elements need to be present to rec...
On the surface of it all, it seems a dreadful story:  A younger son cheating an older brother of what is rightfully his. So seems the s...
Rabbi Ashlag teaches, that when we come to build a house, we first have to start off with the vision of our final dwelling. We need to imagi...
Rosh HaShanah, the new year is a day of choice; a day when we are given the possibility of choosing again. This is an amazing thought. For s...
The streams of Teshuvah , both the individual and the general, rush along. They are like waves of flames on the surface of the sun, which, i...
Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag tells a parable in which different elements of ourselves are reflected.  Through this parable we can see tha...