Quotes

Rabbi Avraham Azulai, introduction to the book Ohr ha Chama (Light of the Sun).

“I have found it written that the above decree to not openly engage in the wisdom of truth was only for a time—until the end of the 1490. From then on, it is considered “the last generation,” the sentence has been lifted, and permission was granted to engage in The Book of Zohar. And from the year 1540 it is has become praiseworthy to engage in great numbers since it is by virtue of this the Messiah King will come, and not by another virtue. It is inappropriate to be negligent.”

The Rav Kook, Igrot HaRaiah, (Letters of the Raiah), Part 2, p. 34.

“When the internal revives the external, it becomes holy. When the external dismisses itself from receiving from the internal, everything returns to chaos and impurity.”

The Rav Kook, Igrot HaRaiah, (Letters of the Raiah), Part 1, p. 92.

“Now times are nearing when everyone will acknowledge and know that Israel’s salvation and the salvation of the entire world depend only on the emergence of the wisdom of the hidden light of the internality of the secrets of the Torah in a clear language. The hidden will set straight the revealed, as well, and all will exist in the hidden.”

Ha Ben Ish Hay, Daat ve Tvuna (Knowledge and Wisdom).

“The listener will hear and the learned will understand what sages have said and warned and notified every man from Israel to approach the holy with engagement in the secrets of the Torah. ‘She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her.’”

Rabbi Isaac Izik Yechiel Safrin of Komorna, Notzer Hesed (Keeping Mercy), Chapter 4, Mishnah 20.

“If my people heeded me in this generation… they would study The Book of Zohar and the Tikkunim (corrections), to contemplate them with a nine year old infant.”

Rabbi Menachem Maachin Heilperin, in an endorsement to the book Eifa Shlema (Complete Measure).

“What will the high and mighty reply to the startling words in the Tikkunim (corrections of The Zohar), Tikkun no. 30: “…Woe unto them that make the spirit of Messiah leave and depart from the world? They are the ones that make the Torah dry …and do not wish to try to understand the wisdom of Kabbalah. …Their hair will rise and their flesh will become pimpled at the thought that the poverty of Israel, disasters and incitement of wars are caused by them, because they do not engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah.”