Kabbalistic Essays

(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) The basic, primary principle is to increase the will, for that is the basis upon which the structure builds and the strength of the construction is measured by the strength of its foundation. Many things compel one to labor, but they do not aim at the cause. […]

January 09, 2003 (From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) We distinguish among many levels and many distinctions in the (upper, spiritual) worlds. And it is known that when one speaks about levels and distinctions, one speaks (only) regarding the souls’ comprehension of what is received from these worlds; according to the principle that […]

(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) Joy is considered to be love, which is being. It resembles a man building himself a house, but neglecting to make hollows in the walls. It turns out that there is not a way for the man to enter the house. Therefore a hollow, a space must […]

(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) Man is made of three bodies: A) The inner body, in which the holy soul is dressed. B) The Noga shell. C) The serpent’s skin. In order to save one from the two outer bodies, so that they do not interfere with the holy one, and in […]

May 28, 2000 5:49 AM Given in Tsfat, 5759 delivered by: Rabbi Avraham Brandwein, Dean, Kol Yehuda Tzvi POB 14056 Jerusalem, Israel fax: 972-2-5823276 B”H This week also includes Tish’a B’Av, the day commemorating the destruction of both Temples. The Gmarah [Gittin 55b] tells of the period of the Destruction. Jerusalem was laid waste because […]

by I.Krakovski (scholar of Rabbi Y.Ashlag) 1) There is no single substance existing in the world, whether it be that which we experience through the senses, or that which we perceive through the mind, which is not comprised in the Creator. Everything emanates from Him. Therefore, what we know as contrary, or unrelated substances, in […]

(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) The spiritual – is the Awakening from Above, then why is the Awakening from Below necessary? What must be done in order to merit the attainment of the spiritual, is beyond man’s comprehension, because it is beyond human reasoning to grasp how could such a thing (to […]

(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) It is written that there is none else beside Him, meaning there is no other power in the world with the ability to do anything against Him. And what man sees, namely, that there are things in the world which deny the household of Above, is of […]

(From the book Shamati by Kabbalist Y. Ashlag) When a person is wishing to work within self – denial before the Creator, without considering his own benefit, and he is leaving his family and friends for the sake of humbling himself before the Creator, he is having reached a situation where as if the whole […]