Kabbalah Books for Our Generation

Posted by Mark Zimmerman Sep 19, 2007

The Kabbalah books best suited to guide our generation's spiritual development are the writings of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam), Rabbi Isaac Luria (the Ari), and Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (author of The Zohar). The authors of all these writings wrote from the same spiritual level, however in different periods of history, and thus the language and style of their writing reflects the needs of the people in their periods.

There were Kabbalists who achieved higher spiritual states, however they were not specified the roles for adapting Kabbalah as a method suited for anybody to study. There have been thousands of Kabbalah books written throughout history, however only the writings of the aforementioned Kabbalists fulfill the above role. This doesn't mean that other Kabbalistic writings are to be undervalued. Although there were other Kabbalists who achieved higher spiritual degrees than the Kabbalists mentioned here, they were not given the role of adapting Kabbalah as a method for the masses. Some were also not permitted to write at all, and others wrote only for certain other Kabbalists who were already in the perception and sensation of high spiritual states.

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