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GENERAŢIA NOASTRA – ULTIMA GENERAŢIE
4.01 Baal HaSulam
“A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”
Our generation is the generation of the days of the Messiah. This is why we have been granted the redemption of our holy land from the hands of the foreigners. We have also been rewarded with the revelation of The Book of Zohar, which is the beginning of the realization of the verse, “For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord.” “And they will teach no more… for they will all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them.”
Yet, with those two, we have only been rewarded with giving from the Creator, but we have not received anything into our own hands. Instead, we have been given a chance to begin with the work of the Creator, to engage in Torah and Mitzvot Lishma. Then we will be granted the great success that is promised to the generation of the Messiah, which all the generations before us did not know. And then we will be rewarded with the time of reception of both the complete attainment and the complete redemption.
4.02 Baal HaSulam,
“The Shofar of the Messiah”
The disclosure of the wisdom of the hidden in great masses; it is a necessary precondition that must be met prior to the complete redemption.
And the books that have already been revealed through me in this wisdom will testify to it, that matters of the greatest importance have been spread out like a gown for all to see. This is a true testimony that we are already at the threshold of redemption, and the voice of the great Shofar has already been heard, though in the distance, for it still sounds very softly.
Indeed, every greatness requires prior smallness, and there is no great voice if it is not preceded by a soft sound. And this is the way of the Shofar: Its voice grows progressively. And who better than I knows that I am not at all worthy of being even a messenger and a scribe for disclosing such secrets, much less to understand them down to their roots. So why has the Creator done so to me? It is only because the generation is worthy of it, as it is the last gener- ation, which stands at the threshold of complete redemption. For this reason, it is worthy of beginning to hear the voice of the Shofar of the Messiah, which is the revealing of the secrets, as has been explained.
4.03 Baal HaSulam,
“A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”
All the interpretations of The Book of Zohar before ours did not clarify as much as ten percent of the difficult places in The Zohar. Even in the little they did clarify, their words are almost as abstruse as the words of The Zohar itself.
But in our generation, we have been rewarded with the Sulam [Ladder] commentary, which is a complete interpretation of all the words of The Zohar. Moreover, not only does it not leave an unclear matter in the whole of The Zohar without interpreting it, the clarifications are based on a straight- forward analysis, which any intermediate examiner can understand. And since The Zohar appeared in our generation, it is a clear proof that we are already in the days of the Messiah, at the outset of that generation of which it was said, “for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord.”
4.04 Baal HaSulam,
“A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”
Rashbi and his generation, the authors of The Zohar, who were granted all 125 degrees in complete- ness, even though it was prior to the days of the Messiah. It was said about him and his disciples: “A sage is preferable to a prophet.” Hence, we often find in The Zohar that there will be none like the generation of Rashbi until the generation of the Messiah King. This is why his composition made such a great impression in the world, since the secrets of the Torah in it occupy the level of all 125 degrees.
This is why it is said in The Zohar that The Book of Zohar will be revealed only at the End of Days, the days of the Messiah. This is so because we have already said that if the degrees of the examiners are not at the full measure of the degree of the author, they will not understand his intimations since they do not have a common attainment.
Since the degree of the authors of The Zohar is at the full level of the 125 degrees, they cannot be attained prior to the days of the Messiah. It follows that there will be no common attainment with the authors of The Zohar in the generations preceding the days of the Messiah. Hence, The Zohar could not be revealed in the generations before the generation of the Messiah.
4.05 Baal HaSulam,
“Peace in the World”
There are already people among us who use their singularity in forms of bestowal upon others. Yet, they are still few, as we are still in the midst of the path of development. When we achieve the highest point of the degrees, we will all be using our singularity only in a form of bestowal upon others, and there will never be any case of any person using it in a manner of self-reception.
According to these words, we have found an opportunity to examine the conditions of life in the last generation—the time of world peace, when the whole of humanity achieves the level of the first side and will use their singularity only in a manner of bestowal upon others, and not at all in a manner of reception for oneself. And it is good to copy here the above-mentioned form of life so it will serve us as a lesson and a role model to settle our minds under the flood of the waves of our lives; perhaps it is worthwhile and possible in our generation, too, to experiment in resembling this above form of life.
4.06 Baal HaSulam,
“The Writings of the Last Generation”
The basis of my entire commentary is the will to receive imprinted in every creature, and which is disparity of form to the Creator. Thus, the soul has separated from Him as an organ is separated from the body, since disparity of form in spirituality is like a separating axe in corporeality. It is therefore clear that what the Creator wants from us is equivalence of form, at which time we adhere to Him once more, as before we were created.
This is the meaning of the words, “Adhere to His attributes; as He is merciful, etc.” It means that we are to change our attribute, which is the will to receive, and adopt the attribute of the Creator, which is only to bestow, so that all our actions will be only to bestow upon our fellow persons and benefit them as best as we can.
By this we come to the goal of adhering to Him, which is equivalence of form. What one is com- pelled to do for oneself, namely the necessary minimum for one’s self and one’s family’s sustenance, is not considered disparity of form, as “Necessity is neither condemned nor praised.” This is the great revelation that will be revealed in full only in the days of the Messiah. When this teaching is accepted, we will be rewarded with complete redemption.
4.07 Baal HaSulam,
“The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”
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 I know that it is permitted, I will reply that it is because I have been given permission to disclose. That is, until now, the ways by which it is possible to publicly engage and to fully explain each word have not been revealed to any sage. And I, too, have sworn by my teacher not to disclose, as did all the disciples before me. However, this oath and this prohibition apply only to those manners that are given orally from generation to generation, back to the prophets and before. Had these ways been revealed to the public, they would have caused much harm, for reasons known only to us.
Yet, the way in which I engage in my books is a permitted way. Moreover, I have been instructed by my teacher to expand it as much as I can. We call it “the manner of clothing the matters.” You will see in the writings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai that he calls this way “giving permission,” and this is what the Creator has given me to the fullest extent. We deem it as dependent not on the greatness of the sage, but on the state of the generation, as our sages said, “Little Samuel was worthy, etc., but his generation was unworthy.” This is why I said that my being rewarded with the manner of disclosing the wisdom is only because of my generation.
4.08 Zohar for All, Aharei Mot [After the Death],
“All the Streams Go to the See,” Item 32
In the last generations that will come, the Torah will be forgotten from among them, and wiseh- earted will gather in their places and none will be found who will close and open the Torah. Woe to that generation. Henceforth there will not be as this generation until the arrival of the generation of the Messiah, the knowledge will awaken in the world, as it is written, “For they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them.”
4.09 Zohar for All, VaYera,
“A Calculation of the Time of the Messiah,” Item 460
And when it is near the days of the Messiah, even infants in the world are destined to find the secrets of the wisdom, and know in them the ends and calculations of redemption, and at that time, it will be revealed to all.
4.10 Rabbi Avraham Ben Mordechai Azulai,
“Introduction to the Book Ohr HaChama,” 81
What has been decreed above, not to engage openly in the wisdom of truth, was only for a time—until the end of the year, 1490. From then on it will be called “the last generation,” the sentence has been lifted, and permission has been given to engage in The Book of Zohar. And from the year, 1540, it is has become praiseworthy to engage in public, great and small. And since it is by virtue of this that the Messiah King will come, and not by another virtue, we must not be negligent.
4.11 Rav Kook,
Letters of the Raaiah
I have agreed to disclose the secrets of the world since the time requires it. Greater and better than me have suffered the libel of the people for such matters, who pressed their pure spirits, for the correction of the generation, to say new things and reveal the concealed, to which the common mind has not been accustomed.
4.12 Raaiah Kook,
Arfiley Tohar
Turning the hearts and engaging the minds in noble thoughts whose origin is the secrets of Torah has become an absolute must for the existence of Judaism in the last generation.
4.13 Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Ben Meir,
Sefer HaBrit [Book of the Covenant], Part 2, Essay no. 12, Chapter 5
Know for certain, my brother, that the previous generations and the early days that were in the fifth millennium are not as these generations and these days. In those days, the gates of wisdom were closed and locked. Hence, Kabbalists were few then. Conversely, in this sixth millennium, when the gates of light, the gates of mercy, have been opened, since it is near the end of days, and there is joy of Mitzva [commandment] and great contentment in the eyes of the Creator to make the glory of His kingdom known forever. Especially now that the holy writings of the ARI have been printed, who opened for us the gates of light that have been sealed and locked by a thousand keys since days of old, and all his words are words of the living God, based on Prophet Elijah, and by whose permission he revealed what he revealed. Now there is no obstacle or peril before us, just as in the revealed.
4.14 Rav Chaim Vital,
Introduction of Rav Chaim Vital to Shaar HaHakdamot
Until now, the words of the wisdom of The Zohar were concealed. In the last generation, this wisdom will be revealed and become known, and they will understand and become wise in secrets of Torah that the our predecessors did not attain.
4.15 Zohar for All, VaYera,
“A Calculation of the Time of the Messiah,” Item 460
And when it is near the days of the Messiah, even infants in the world are destined to find the secrets of the wisdom, and know in them the ends and calculations of redemption, and at that time, it will be revealed to all.
4.16 Rabbi Avraham Ben Mordechai Azulai,
“Introduction to the Book Ohr HaChama,” 81
What has been decreed above, not to engage openly in the wisdom of truth, was only for a time— until the end of the year, 1490. From then on it will be called “the last generation,” the sentence has been lifted, and permission has been given to engage in The Book of Zohar. And from the year, 1540, it is has become praiseworthy to engage in public, great and small. And since it is by virtue of this that the Messiah King will come, and not by another virtue, we must not be negligent.
4.17 Rav Kook,
Letters of the Raaiah
I have agreed to disclose the secrets of the world since the time requires it. Greater and better than me have suffered the libel of the people for such matters, who pressed their pure spirits, for the correction of the generation, to say new things and reveal the concealed, to which the common mind has not been accustomed.
4.18 Raaiah Kook,
Arfiley Tohar
Turning the hearts and engaging the minds in noble thoughts whose origin is the secrets of Torah has become an absolute must for the existence of Judaism in the last generation.
4.19 Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Ben Meir,
Sefer HaBrit [Book of the Covenant], Part 2, Essay no. 12, Chapter 5
Know for certain, my brother, that the previous generations and the early days that were in the fifth millennium are not as these generations and these days. In those days, the gates of wisdom were closed and locked. Hence, Kabbalists were few then. Conversely, in this sixth millennium, when the gates of light, the gates of mercy, have been opened, since it is near the end of days, and there is joy of Mitzva [commandment] and great contentment in the eyes of the Creator to make the glory of His kingdom known forever. Especially now that the holy writings of the ARI have been printed, who opened for us the gates of light that have been sealed and locked by a thousand keys since days of old, and all his words are words of the living God, based on Prophet Elijah, and by whose permission he revealed what he revealed. Now there is no obstacle or peril before us, just as in the revealed.
4.20 Rav Chaim Vital,
Introduction of Rav Chaim Vital to Shaar HaHakdamot
Until now, the words of the wisdom of The Zohar were concealed. In the last generation, this wisdom will be revealed and become known, and they will understand and become wise in secrets of Torah that the our predecessors did not attain.
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