In the Shema that we say every day, it says, "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." Where does one begin from ? and is it possible to command love anyway? Rabbi Yehuda Lev Ashlag z"l wrote on this subject in his Introduction to the Ten Sephirot. He looks at the stages of love between people . In this broadcast Yedidah looks at the very first stage of love this great Kabbalaist describes. Click on audio link.
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Rabbi Ashlag starts off his Introductions to the Kabbalah by considering what the full potential of a human being really is. We have both soul and body, but they come to us via very different paths. How do they complement each other? Do the events of my life have meaning? Rabbi Ashlag patiently unfolds the answers to these questions step by step from the perspective of the innermost part of Torah.
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Nehora Press. Nehora Press publishes material of Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag both
in Hebrew and in English. Started in 2002 by Mark Cohen z’l and Yedidah Cohen
this small press has as its goal the need to maintain high-standards of
authenticity both in the Hebrew texts and in English translation, and at the
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Yedidah is an experienced teacher of the work of Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag. Both
she and her late husband studied with a pupil of Rabbi Baruch Shalom Ashlag.