A few weeks ago, our good friend Raffe came back from Israel. As some of you may know, in the past few years we have been finding and purchasing the writings of Rav Ashlag, the teacher of Rav Brandwein, the teacher of the Rav. A few weeks ago he came back and said we found another batch of the writing of Rav Ashlag. He says now you will have something to talk about at Rosh Hashanah.

I got them last night. I cannot express how excited I am about the amazing things we are finding. Most of the stuff has never been published before.

We are about to share a video of what the Centre has been doing in the world over the last 6 months.

Many of you know that about a year ago we opened the Kabbalah Charitable Foundation and the work in Malawi. It’s one more thing that cannot be put into words, but hopefully we will get some taste of it.

Rav Ashlag wrote this whole thing in the 30s or 40s in which he talks about the importance of taking care of the world. He was a very poor person, without the money to buy paper on which to write his thoughts. Nevertheless, in this piece he is thinking about a system of how we can change the entire world and take people out of poverty. He says he has been working on this for 12 years.

At the end he writes in this holy and important work, that we need to make sure that the economy in the world and the money in the world is set up to assist all people. After we take care of the financial situation, then we can start teaching the spiritual principles. First we have to create healthy bodies. Then we can work on creating the strong souls for those bodies. Hopefully over the next few days I can share some of this with you.

The Kabbalists teach that the way you know you are doing the right things is if you get signs. You open a book from a true Kabbalist and he writes about that which you are doing. For me, Rav Ashlag’s piece of writing was a sign that what we are doing in Malawi is the right thing. Rav Ashlag was thinking about it 70 years ago. Besides getting the sign, hopefully it opens our mind that if you are sitting in the 30s or 40s, penniless, you are thinking about the world. You have to think about the next and the next.

It’s not a coincidence that those of us here for this Rosh Hashanah, certainly there is Light we will reveal for ourselves, but at the seed of this new Year, we have to start this year as Rav Ashlag did when he was penniless, to think about the whole world, and to think we cannot be satisfied with the life we have with this poverty in the world.