Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Through adhering to wise disciples, it is possible to receive some support. In other words, only a wise disciple can help him, and nothing else. …Hence, one must surrender before a wise disciple and accept what the wise disciple places on him without any arguments, but by way of above reason.
- Baal HaSulam, Shamati (I Heard), #105, “A Wise Disciple Bastard Precedes a High Priest Commoner”

This is the nature of the world: inferior bows to superior. That’s why the silly who adopt the thoughts of the sages acquire their way of thinking. Unwillingly, they unite with the sages according with the nature of creation, and thus the world becomes corrected.
- Baal HaSulam, Fruit of the Wise – Talks, “Permanent Delight and Supreme Enslavement”
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Thus, every time one equalizes one’s form with one’s teacher, he is adhered to him for a time. Thus, one obtains the thoughts and knowledge of the teacher.…

For this reason, the student can use his teacher’s attainment of the Creator’s greatness, which inverts bestowal into reception and sufficient fuel to give one’s heart and soul. At that time, the student, too, will be able to engage in his correction in the intention to bestow with his heart and soul, which is the remedy that yields eternal adhesion with the Creator.
- Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Hence, a person has the choice of going to a place where there are righteous. One can accept their authority, and then he will receive all the powers that he lacks by the nature of his own qualities. He will receive it from the righteous. This is the benefit in “planted them in each generation” so that each generation would have someone to turn to, to cleave to, and from whom to receive the strength needed to rise to the degree of a righteous. Thus, they, too, subsequently become righteous.
- Baal HaSulam, Shamati (I Heard), Article #99, “He Did Not Say Wicked or Righteous”
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

The most significant development in any generation is achieved by individuals since when the majority of people realize the necessity to rid themselves of affliction and start growing consciously and voluntarily, meaning pursuing the path of the Torah, then they have to surrender their corporeal freedoms and follow the commands and recommendations dictated by individuals.
- Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

The most successful way for one who wishes to learn the wisdom is to search for a genuine Kabbalist and follow all his instructions, until one is rewarded with understanding the wisdom in one’s own mind.
- Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and its Essence”
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

There is a strict condition during the engagement in this wisdom: to not materialize the matters with imaginary and corporeal issues…. To rescue the readers from any materialization, I composed the book Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) by the Ari, in which I collected his major explanations and presented them in a simple and easy language.
- Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 156

Most students materialized the matters explained in Kabbalistic books and although the spiritual concepts are above time and above place, pictured them as set in times and places. Additionally, they were confused by the fact material is expressed in corporeal terms.

Thus, I have come out with this preface, to connect the matters and the foundations of the wisdom in a concise manner, so it will be readily available to those who want to study this science.
- Baal HaSulam, “General Preface to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” Item 1
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Baal HaSulam, by his corrections in the upper world, prepared it so that any person can achieve Dvekut (adhesion) with the Creator. Before him, one had to be an outstanding wise disciple to be rewarded with adhesion with the Creator. And before the Baal Shem Tov, one had to be among the greatest in the world. Otherwise, they would not be able to attain Godliness.
- Rabash, Steps of the Ladder, “The Deeds of the Nation’s Greatest”

The depth of wisdom in the holy Book of Zohar is enclosed and caged behind a thousand locks, and our human tongue too poor to provide us with sufficient, reliable expressions to interpret one thing in this book to its end. My Sulam commentary is a ladder to help the examiner rise to the height of the matters and examine the words of the book itself. Hence, I have found it necessary to prepare the reader and give him a route and an inlet in reliable definitions concerning how one should contemplate and study The Book of Zohar.
- Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Book of Zohar,” Item 1
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We all used to be one soul that split into a multitude of egoistic parts. What does that mean? How to return to the initial state? And what force returns broken pieces to the initial state?

In my opinion, there is indeed only one soul in the world, as it is written (Genesis, 2:7), “and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” The same soul exists in all the children of Israel, complete in each and every one, as in Adam ha Rishon since the spiritual is indivisible and cannot be cut—which is rather a trait of corporeal things.

Yet, saying that there are 600,000 souls and sparks of souls appears as though it is divided by the force of the body of each person. In other words, first, the body divides and completely denies him of the radiance of the soul, and by the force of the Torah and the commandments, the body is purified, and to the extent of its purification, the collective soul shines upon him.
(Baal HaSulam, Fruit of the Wise, “600,000 Souls”)
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

I am the first interpreter of Kabbalah by root and branch, and cause and consequence. Hence, having understood it, any person can then comprehend any Kabbalistic text himself.
- Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”

The very fact of the possibility to create the Sulam (Ladder) commentary to The Zohar is a clear proof that we are already in the days of the Messiah, at the outset of that generation upon which it was said, “for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Creator.”
- Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

I am glad that I have been born in such a generation when it is permitted to disclose the wisdom of truth. And should you ask, “How do I know that it is permitted?” I will reply that I have been given permission to disclose Kabbalah in the world. And it does not depend on me, but on the state of the generation.
- Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and its Essence”

I am not at all worthy of disclosing such secrets, and much less to thoroughly understand them. And why has the Creator done so to me? It is only because it is the last generation, which stands at the threshold of complete redemption and full revelation of the hidden world.
- Baal HaSulam, “Messiah’s Shofar (horn)”
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