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...The great Kabbalists, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, and his son and successor, Rav Baruch Ashlag, offer modern readers valid answers to life's most vital question: What is the meaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Lif...

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...l e o f Co n T e n T s Foreword (Bnei Baruch) 5 The Tree of Life – a Poem (Rav Isaac Luria) 7 Time for Spiritual Attainment 1 1 Time to Act (Rav Yehud... ... 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 Yehud... ...89 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 (Ra... ...manate the emanations, To bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His appellations, Which was the cause of the creation of the worlds,... ... d e n T Prior to these four worlds, there was one Light of Ein Sof, whose Name is One, in wondrous, hidden unity, And even in the angles closest to ... ... i t u a l a t t a i n m e n t 13 Ti m e T o a C T For a long time now, my conscience has burdened me with a demand to come out and create a funda... ...n their own mood. These are the reasons that have prompted me to go out of my way and decide that it is time to “do for the Lord” and salvage what ca... ...ese ten Sefirot, HB TM, to four colors: • White for the Sefira Hochma; • Red for the Sefira Bina; 19 T ranslator’s note: The usual translation for... ...veling through the panes and turns into four kinds of light: white light; red light; green light; and black light. Thus, the Light in all the Sefiro...

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...The Book of Zohar (Book of Radiance) is perhaps the most mysterious composition ever written. It contains the secrets of the whole of Creation, but until recently these secrets were shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. Now the Zohar is openly unfolding its ...

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..........................................................65 Chapter 6: outer is iNNer ................................................................77... .................................................................... 131 What Is Hell? ..................................................................... ... Deep ..............................................................135 on My Bed at Night .............................................................. ...rival of the last generation at the end of days, and then it will appear. Rav Isaiah Horowitz (the Holy Shlah) Foreword 7 T h e G r e aT n e s s o ... ...e thriving present-day industry chapter 1: Time to Act 19 that uses the name “Kabbalah” to market services and products has nothing whatsoever to ... ...ne’s fate and to learn how to govern it is welcome to study Kabbalah. “If my people heeded me ... they would delve in the study of The Book of Zohar... ...along with all mankind, and now we have found a great, abundant treasure, namely the books of Kabbalah in the treasure. ... “Now, distinguished read... ... upper lines from the upper Bina, and from there the colors spread—white, red, and black... And when you look in the degrees, you will find how the ... ...ertain element in the world of Beria, there are Kelim there, which are of red color, through which the Light of Beria traverses to the dwellers of ...

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...The Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance) is an ageless source of wisdom and the basis for all Kabbalistic literature. Since its appearance nearly 2,000 years ago, it has been the primary, and often only, source used by Kabbalists. For centuries, Kabbalah was hidd...

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...LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS THE ZOHAR Rav Michael Laitman, PhD THE ZOHAR Copyright © 2007 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All... ...ons .......................................................... 21 Original Names and Their Equivalents Accepted in the English Translation ............. ...er One ............................................... 54 The Light of ZON Is The Light of the Worlds BYA ....................................55 Corre... ......................................................................193 Who Is Your Partner? ............................................................. ...ance) was a Tana—a great sage in the early Common Era centuries. Rashbi’s name is tied to numerous legends, and he is mentioned constantly in the Tal... ...t like other children his age. Questions such as, “What is the purpose of my life?” “Who am I?” and “How is the world built?” plagued him and demand... ...nts: “I am arranging you as follows: Rabbi Abba will write, Rabbi Elazar, my son, will study orally, and the rest of the friends will converse in th... ...is a rose and there is a rose, just as a rose among thorns is tinged with red and white, the Assembly of Israel consists of judgment and mercy. Just... ...s a rose, and there is a rose. Just as a rose among thorns is tinged with red and white, so does the Assembly of Israel (Malchut) consist of judgmen...

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...Introduction: The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has been to ensure that the truths of Kabbalah would be given ...

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... By Rav Michael Laitman PhD The Kabbalah Experience By Rav Michael Laitman PhD LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS The Kabbalah Exper... ... T I O N 9 T he wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over t... ...it was this generation for which this method was specifically developed. That is why the Zohar, the Ari and Baal HaSulam (Rav Yehuda Ashlag, the au-... ...ing of their very existence. The question will form: “What is the meaning of my life?” or “What am I living for?” It will arise not only if we are ... ...overed this valuable method, even though the question “What is the meaning of my life?” burns in the heart of every one of them. All of them seek a ... ...law of creation, uses words such as God, Creator, and Emanator, as technical names for forces, lights and degrees. The names, Creator and Emanator, ... ...eates, controls, and develops the lower degree. Creator is also a collective name for everything that exists, besides the souls, which are called “... ...tion in the middle of the exodus from Egypt, standing at the shore before the Red Sea opened. We needn’t hide our negative attributes; only use them... ...al desires for ourselves. It is a special moment, called “the crossing of the Red Sea,” that comes after the exodus from Egypt, meaning after one ha...

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...Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life is a clearly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding n...

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...ISHERS Kabbalah Revealed The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Introduction by: Professor Ervin Laszlo KABBA... ...as a Happy End ......................................................30 Egoism Is a Catch-22 ........................................................... ......................................................................34 The Time Is Now ................................................................... ... More Peaceful Life. Not only is the author a dear personal friend, he is, in my view, the foremost Kabbalist alive today, a genuine representative ... ...he oneness of the system. It is high time we restore it. As I learned through my acquaintance with Dr. Lait- man’s writings, Kabbalah in its authenti... ...n common with the true Kabbalah, as well as various fantasies under the false name of magic, and this is what fills the books.”  Kabbalah: Then an... ...s Bilbul, and to mark the confu- sion, the capitol of Mesopotamia received the name, Babel (Babylon). 28 KABBALAH REVEALED Ever since that split—whe... ... the Abstract Forms we attach them to. In other words, the fact that we see a red apple as red doesn’t mean that it is actually red. Here’s how Ashl... ...hysicists, they’ll tell you that the only true statement you can make about a red apple is that it’s not red. If you remember how the Masach (Scree...

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...One evening in September 1991, Kabbalist Rabash summoned his prime student, Michael Laitman, to his bedside and handed him a notebook, whose cover contained one word-Shamati (I Heard), containing transcripts of Rabash's conversations with his father, Yehuda Ashlag, author of a complete commentary on ...

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... 2008005841 Compilation: Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Copy Editors: Michael R. Kellogg, Natasha Sigmund ... ...tz FIRST EDITION: FEBRUARY 2009 First printing TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. There Is None Else Besides Him ..................................................... ...itual Attainment .............................................. 21 4. What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator... ... Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work .... 42 10. What Is Make Haste My Beloved, in the Work ...........................43 11. Joy WIth a Quiver... ... without a Crown” .........................................55 18. What Is, My Soul shall Weep in Secret in the Work ..................58 19. What Is, ... ...tor Hates the Bodies, in the Work ..................59 20. Lishma (For Her Name) ..............................................................72 21. ... ... State of Ascent ............................ 74 22. Torah Lishma (for Her Name) ..................................................... 76 23. You that... ........................................................ 127 40. Faith in the Rav, What is the Measure ......................................129 41. What... ...hy they said that the Holy Divinity says, “I saw the image of a drop of a red rose.” It means that he saw that there was a place that still needed c...

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...Kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called His Essence, the Upper Force, and this is what we perceive as our world. As uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for e...

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... By Rav Michael Laitman PhD The Path of Kabbalah By Rav Michael Laitman PhD LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS The Path of Kabbala... ...n envelops the most fundamental principle in Judaism: that everything we see is only a figment of our imaginations. Over the years, many of us have ... ...termines our reactions, our feelings, and ultimately our reality. What, then, is the actual reality around us? Today, Kabbalists can state a principl... ...such a way that one sees Him as an image of a certain reality, which we call “my world.” We are all able to see and feel varying images and sensation... ...properties are to the properties of the Upper Force, the closer the image of “my world” comes to the actual reality, and the less distorted it is by... ... we are still unable to see in ourselves. All the worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, names, everything the Kabbalah speaks of, exists in us and will be rev... ...ill to receive is completely identical to the Cre- ator’s Will to bestow, also named “bestowal in order to bestow.” The will to receive does not vani... ...n achieving spirituality depends on the presence of the “point in the heart.” Rav Laitman asked his teacher if the “point in the heart” could be acq... ...e is called “birth,” the acquisition of the screen; it is the crossing of the Red Sea that separates between Egypt and the Land of Israel. Only the ...

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...shers Email: info@kabbalah.info ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND Copyright 2003 by MICHAEL LAITMAN. All rights reserved. Published by Laitman Kabbalah Pub... ...6 Other books by Rabbi Michael Laitman .................... 447 Contents It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritu... ...tual qualities as total altruism and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform... ... is a bitteranda fair one, asked by all born on earth: "What is the meaning of my life?" Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, Introduction to Talmud Esser Sefirot Amo... ...uction to Talmud Esser Sefirot Among all the texts and notes that were used by my Rabbi, Baruch Shalom Halevi Ashlag, there was one particular noteboo... ...e creation, nothing existed but the Creator. He cannot be denoted by any other name,foranynameimpliesacertainperceptionoftheobject. Buttheonlythingtha... ...g their books, it is vital to have the right intention while studyingsuchworks;namely,thewilltoperceivetheCreator. Itisalsoveryimportant,whilestudying... ...this reason, we need the influence of another spiritual quality, known as the "red light," the left line ("malchut memuteket be Bina"). This second qu... ...pirituality, perceive the Creator; and the Light of Wisdom splits the yam suf (Red Sea)in the middle. At this point, one passes over the boundary betw...

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...nners LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Kabbalah for Beginners 4th Edition Rav Michael Laitman, PhD KABBALAH FoR BEgINNERS Copyright © 2007 by MICHA... ... a sKed q uestIons .......................................... 160 What Is the Wisdom of Kabbalah? ................................................... ...Kabbalah? ..................................................... 160 What Is Spirituality? ............................................................. ...ns: “Who am I?” “What is the 10 K abbalah for b eg Inners purpose of my life?” “Why does the world exist?” “Do we continue to exist after our p... ...umanity was deep in idol worship, one man couldn’t go with the flow. His name was Abraham, and today we know him as “Abraham the Patriarch.” Abraha... ... time, the lone fighter for truth had multiplied, creating a nation whose name, “the nation of Israel,” symbolizes the one thing they had in common—... ...t from other children his age. Questions such as, “What is the purpose of my life?” “Who am I?” and “How is the world built?” haunt- - ed him, deman... ... perceiving is the “real” picture. In other words, the fact that we see a red apple as red doesn’t mean that it is actually red, only that I am perc... ...red doesn’t mean that it is actually red, only that I am perceiving it as red. Actually, if you ask physicists, they’ll tell you that the only true ...

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... MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN Copyright © 2009 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publish... ...way country, there lived a king and a queen who had only one daughter. Her name was Peony. She had pale blue eyes and the most beautiful red hair ... ...daughter. Her name was Peony. She had pale blue eyes and the most beautiful red hair with curls. The people of the country loved the king and the q... ...from sadness,” announced the expert. “T o make her happy, an unusual remedy is needed. Y ou must bring Peony the most beautiful melody in the world.... ...and announce: “Attention! Attention! The most beautiful melody in the world is needed for princess Peony. Whoever brings the princess the most beau... ...em entered the pianist. “I will cure Peony,” he announced confidently, “for my melody is the most exciting.” He played the black and white keys with... ... just stand here, not bothering anyone. Why do they stare? Is the paint on my window sills peeling? Are my hinges getting rusty?” The house had onc... ...ev 20 MirAcLes cAn HAPPen! By Michael Brushtein 21 T here once was a boy named Pete. Although he seemed like an ordinary boy, Pete was really a... ...dream. In it, she was in a country full of paint, where she met the colors “red,” “yellow,” “green,” “blue,” and “white.” They had very simple names...

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...t Part 2: Realizing the Choice 1. The Freedom to Choose 2. Controlling My Own Destiny 3. The Four Elements that Comprise Us 4. The Right Environ... ... Interview With The Future Preface Out of all known creatures, man is the most complete. Yet it is he, who asks himself the eternal question ... ...self the eternal question that keeps facing him in every generation: what is the purpose of creation? Scientists have been trying to find the reaso... ...tor, the more I enjoy. The further he is from me, the less I enjoy, until my sensations are turned to pain. Man himself determines the extent to whi... ...onsciously and purposefully. And here begins the process of “Not for Her Name” (lo lishma), the process for myself. Man begins in a situation wher... ...ms, and brings him back to his root and gives him the desire for “For Her Name” (lishma), the desire to give to the Creator. People will not have t... ...ol this process, he just runs! He walks on land, between the walls of the Red Sea, the last sea, the barrier… and ends up in the desert. The benefit... ...pelessly and her black skirt was soaked in tears. In front of her, fresh red roses were neatly arranged in a row, hiding the dark stains on the pav... ...ng at the doorway crying,” was the reply. I quoted this dialogue to Rabbi Laitman. “Beautiful words but absolutely meaningless if one does not under...

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...chael Laitman, PhD Basic Concepts in Kabbalah LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Basic Concepts in Kabbalah Translation: Dav... ...and emanate the emanations, To bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His appellations, Which was the cause of the creation of the wo... ...ll the worlds. Before these four worlds came to be There was one infinite, one name, in wondrous, hidden unity, And even In the angles closest to Him ... ...e name, in wondrous, hidden unity, And even In the angles closest to Him There is no force and no attainment in the endless, As there is no mind that ... .....111 AU T H O R ’ S N O T E E ven though this book may seem very basic, it is not intended to be a book that conveys basic knowledge of Kabbalah.... ...ulfilling all the desires of all the people, when I am unable to satisfy even my own desires! Moreover, the sages explain that we have to satisfy ot... ... thing: to receive everything you are giving me out of mercy, as a reward for my own labor. You can fulfill all my desires except this one!” We see ... ...har Sefira (Drawing 2 on next page): • White corresponds to Sefirat Hochma; • Red corresponds to Sefirat Bina; • Green corresponds to Sefirat Tiffere... ...color stands out against the white background. In the same way, by perceiving red, green, and black, we are able to perceive Light. The world Atzilu...

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...oncepts that weave into a cohesive solution to these problems: the crisis is essentially not fnancial, but psychological! People 1. have stopped tru... ...sychological! People 1. have stopped trusting each other, and where there is no trust there is no trade—only isolation and paralysis. this mistrust ... ...h a Map and CoMpass , and s till l ost I t was about 9 a.m. when I parked my beat-up Toyota pickup at a parking lot on one of Mount Rainier’s north... ...ta pickup at a parking lot on one of Mount Rainier’s northern slopes, and my friend, Josh, and I stepped out of the truck. our plan was to hike dow... ... a vague idea of where we were, and we knew our destination was (so aptly named) Cataract Valley. w e hoped we could traverse the remaining five mi... ...n Babel. Among the most prominent and respected people in Babel was a man named Abraham. This man was a priest, an idol worshiper, and the son of a... ...ta, who joined forces in March, 2009 to stop the highest cresting of the Red River in recorded history. while this trend is certainly welcome, a fe... ...explains why life exists. In Kabbalah, Sci- ence, and the Meaning of Life, Rav Laitman combines science and spirituality in a captivating dialogue t... ...duc- tion to an ancient wisdom tradition. In this book, other Books 117 Rav Laitman offers a deeper understanding of the fundamental teachings of ...