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by Yedidah

Learming the work of Rabbi Ashlag at the community of Eshchar in the Galilee

When we learn the Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag we connect with the inner Divine wisdom of the Torah. Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag was a great sage, proficient in all aspects of the Torah. His great achievement was the bringing the inner aspect of the Toarh, the Kabbalah within the reach of ordinary people. Combining an intimate knowledge of the Torah of the holy Ari with the Kabbalah of the Zohar , he taught a way of serving God that combines mind with heart, thought with feeling. Learning his teachings brings the Torah to life as a vibrant spiritual path.

Yedidah started learning the teachings of Rabbi Ashlag more than thirty years ago, studying with a student of Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag ztz”l. Soon it became clear that other women wanted to learn too. So she started to give informal classes in her home, teaching other women what she herself was learning. It was from this small beginning that her classes and on-line teaching grew.

She prefers to teach in small intimate groups, or one on one, enabling the indivdual to develop his or her own personal relationship with the text that is being learned.

Her husband, Mark z”l started translating Rabbi Ashlag’s intordcutions to Kabbalah into Enlgish and Yedidah has continued this work too. So we now have three books of Rabbi Ashalg s work available.

Yedidah teaching in Tsfat
Yedidah teaching in Tsfat

Yedidah started to add audio talks to her work in which she takes a topic of the a text form the Zohar or Rabbi Ashlag’s writings and based on his writing provides a ten minute talk on a pertinent subject. Broadly speaking the subjects of the talks are :

  • the inner meaning of the festivals
  • the application of the Kabbalah in our daily life
  • learning the Kabbalah

Contact Yedidah to tell her about yourself and your spiritual path or to inquire about learning with her.

{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

Dr. Ira Brent,MD February 21, 2013 at 8:17 pm

These talks ( I have listened to a few yet only) , are outstanding!!
Very clear, authoritative, presentation. Outstanding clarity ( unlike Laitman, translated).
I appreciate the work and am ” on the path” too. I have found a new teacher !!
Best Wishes,
Ira

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yedidah February 26, 2013 at 2:52 pm

I’m really happy to hear you are enjoying them! It’s great to find another traveler, Bvrachah Yedidah

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Shmuel Iger-Kinyan March 8, 2013 at 7:47 am

As a matter of fact, Yedidah’s work and Nehora School are only Kosher resources of Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag ZATZA”L teaching published today in English which available to all who are interested in it and apparently it is immense importance. Amazing job, thank you very much Yedidah!

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Batya Yasgur November 19, 2017 at 4:48 am

I am interested in knowing where you got the photograph of the man in a kittle benching his son before Yom Kippur. Did you take the photograph yourself? If not, what is the source? Thank you.

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yedidah November 19, 2017 at 10:16 am

I think it was probably the website picJew.com. Good luck! yedidah

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Cliff Wigtil August 28, 2018 at 6:14 pm

Re: The December 25, 2017 podcast episode, “Rabbi Ashlag: what he learned when he reached dvekut with God.” Thank you for this very beautiful episode. I perceive similarities of your conclusions with two elements of Buddhism, the first a being, and the second a zen koan, with either or both of which you may be familiar.

The first is a Bodhisattva, which is a more recently proposed being of spiritual achievement than a Buddha. The latter is a being who has reached full enlightenment, but a Bodhisattva is one who has reached such achievement that she or he is on the cusp of enlightenment but who refuses out of great compassion for all beings, and continues in this world until all beings become enlightened.

The zen koan, which I must paraphrase, having heard it secondhand myself, is of a man observing a monk walking along a road and carrying a heavy burden on his back. The man asks the monk, “Master, what is enlightenment?” The monk, saying nothing, sets his burden on the road and stands up straight. The man, seeing this, becomes enlightened, and asks the monk, “Enlightenment is wonderful, but what does one do once one has become enlightened?” The monk, saying nothing, places the burden on his back once more and continues along the road.

Finally, I am reminded of an observation of a film critic that the best sums up what makes the moral of a great movie: that it is not simply a great hero who saves many, but rather that the many learn how to collectively save themselves.

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Seth A Appel November 14, 2018 at 5:39 pm

Shalom Yedidah-

Thank you for the fascinating teachings you have made available to the public. I have really enjoyed your podcasts in particular.

In one of your lectures you mentioned the notion of the act of creation being completed with the finalization of the Hebrew alphabet. Assuming you know what I am referring to, do you happen to know the specific text this is sourced from?

Thanks in advance.
Seth A

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gittel nadel June 18, 2019 at 3:51 pm

SARAH LEAH BEITZ TOLD ME I CAN ORDER “TAPESTRY’…W/O USING PAYPAL WHICH I prefer not to use.
HOW DO I PAY THROUGH MY POST OFFICE. I LIVE IN THE SHOMRON.

thanks,
gittl

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yedidah December 5, 2019 at 2:19 pm

Hi Gittel, just send me your address through my website on http://www.nehorapress.com/contact Thanks Yedidah

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