A Sage’s Fruit: Letters of Baal Hasulam

When traveling, the great Kabbalist, Rav Yehuda Ashlag would write to his students, providing them with guidance and encouragement. This compilation contains letters that reveal the special relationships cultivated between the great teacher and his students. Their unique style and tone offer inspiration and guidance to any seeker of spiritual advancement. Now that they are out, it is unclear how we could perceive spiritual advancement without them.

Rav Yehuda Leib Halevi Ashlag was a mysterious figure whose life and works inspired the movie The Matrix among other pop trends. He was a renowned Kabbalist, meaning that he felt and perceived our reality at a depth concealed from the average person, enabling him to describe in great detail the wars and upheavals that would appear in decades ahead. More importantly, he tried to convey a method by which any person with the desire could come to the same wondrous perception he had, and wield control over one’s own destiny. He conveyed this method more systematically and openly than any Kabbalist in history, creating articles written for people with little or no acquaintance with Kabbalah or any other Jewish writings for that matter, as the wisdom of Kabbalah transcends religion and culture. As a result of his great spiritual attainment he was able to create a commentary to the Book of Zohar bridging the languages of the Midrash, Laws, Legends and Kabbalah, a feat unparalleled by any previous Kabbalist.