Rabbi Ashlag

As One Man, with One Heart

by Yedidah June 3, 2014

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The giving of the Torah is an eternal act that never ceases; for God is always giving. So why is it that we don’t feel the revelation of God in our lives now? To receive the light of God we have to want it. What brings us to want the revelation of God’s light in our lives now, and how did the Children of Israel achieve this state at Mount Sinai? From the teachings of Rabbi Ashlag

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Acting out of the Box

by Yedidah March 6, 2014

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Why can’t I sense my soul? Why is it that I don’t always feel like doing actions that I know are good and kindly? Rabbi Ashlag, the great Kabbalist, teaches us that we have awareness of the paradigm related to receiving but there is a fundamental reason why acts related to altruism seems unreal to us. How do we get to act “out of the box”?

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I saw an Upside-Down World

by Yedidah February 26, 2014

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Rabbi Yoseph, the son of Rabbi Joshua Be Levi tells of his near-death experience in which he saw what is truly real. People who we venerate in this world were often at the bottom of the scale in the world to come. Our values of this world are truly upside down!

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Make for Me a Sanctuary

by Yedidah February 12, 2014

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The Torah commands ” Make for Me a sanctuary so I may dwell within them.” The Netivot Shalom teaches us that the Sanctuary in the wilderness was a map of the soul. Making a sanctuary for God today means making an appropriate vessel for His light to enter into our hearts. The planning and building of this inner sanctuary is equivalent to that of the Sanctuary built then. From the Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag

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What is the Light, a Vessel, and a Sephirah?

by Yedidah January 24, 2014

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In the Kabbalah terms like ” the light”, “the vessel”, “the Sephirot” are common. But these are often depicted in misleading ways such as in diagrams. Their real meaning is much richer and multi- dimensional as the Ari himself taught. and Rabbi Ashlag enlarged on.

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Mixed Motives: Are they any good?

by Yedidah January 7, 2014

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When we start to learn the Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag and we learn that most of our desires are driven by our own egoistic desires that separate us from the Creator, it comes as a shock. We notice that even our good deeds seem tainted with our selfish ways. We feel stuck, even paralyzed. How do we move forwards now? From the teachings of Rabbi Ashlag

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