
Yehuda Ashlag
Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954) or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag, also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam in reference to his magnum opus, was an Orthodox rabbi, kabbalist, social justice universalist, and altruistic communist born in Łuków, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz. Rabbi Ashlag lived in the Holy Land from 1922 until his death in 1954. In addition to his Sulam commentary on the Zohar, his other primary work, Talmud Eser Sefirot is regarded as the central textbook for students of Kabbalah.
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"Anything that is perceived and sensed by the five senses, or which takes time and space, is called 'Corporeal.'"
"The whole Torah is the names of the Creator." All the stories and the laws and the sentences, all are His Holy Names."
"Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the r…"
"It is well known to researchers of nature that one cannot perform even the slightest movement without motivation, meaning without somehow benefiting oneself. When, for example, one moves one’s hand fr…"
"Of all Your work, not a thing You have forgotten; You did not add, and You did not subtract." It is a mandatory law that perfect operations stem from the perfect Operator."
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