Yehuda Ashlag: Whole

Yehuda Ashlag was Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist. Explore interesting quotes on whole.

Yehuda Ashlag: 70 quotes8 likes

“[T]he whole purpose of the Torah is to correct the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, which induced the confusion of the conduct of the sustenance of reality.”

Assorted Themes, On Torah

“Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, says, ‘Since the world is judged by its majority, and the individual is judged by the majority, if he performs one Mitzva, happy is he, for he has sentenced himself and the whole world to a scale of merit. If he commits one sin, woe unto him, for he has sentenced himself and the whole world to a scale of sin.’ (…) Moreover, it is written, “one sinner destroyeth much good.””

This is because one sin sentences the person and the entire world to a scale of sin.
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“[E]ven if a person excels in Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world (…) Now the matter is clarified—the whole part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.”

Assorted Themes, On Torah

“"The whole Torah is the names of the Creator." All the stories and the laws and the sentences, all are His Holy Names.”

Assorted Themes, On Torah

“Indeed, if we set our hearts to answer but one very famous question, I am certain that all these questions and doubts will vanish from the horizon, and you will look unto their place to find them gone. This indignant question is a question that the whole world asks, namely, “What is the meaning of my life?” In other words, these numbered years of our life that cost us so heavily and the numerous pains and torments that we suffer for them, to complete them to the fullest, who is it that enjoys them?”

Assorted Themes, On the Meaning of Life

“The essence of one's work is only to come to the sensation of the existence of the Creator, to feel the existence of the Creator, that “the whole earth is full of His glory.””

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“The whole Torah is the names of the Creator.”

All the stories and the laws and the sentences, all are His Holy Names.
Assorted Themes, On Torah