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A few weeks ago I met the Dalai Lama in New York…

Another gift we received this year was that one of our students in Israel has become friends with someone named Abraham, who’s now in his 80s, and I hope to meet him on our next trip to Israel. In his younger days, Abraham was a simple person, but was close to Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein. At the time of Rav Ashlag’s life, he was a young man and assisted in the editing and printing of the Sulam. At Pesach, I read one of the letters Rav Brandwein wrote to this boy, to Abraham.

I received another letter last night. It’s the essence of choosing life. I know it is not coincidental we received it last night and we hear it today.

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One of the gifts that Rav Ashlag gave us was writing that three books are opened up on Rosh Hashanah: The Book of the Righteous, those who are written up for a good life this year; the book of those subject to the negative. Then there is the third book, those who have not made the complete connection, but have time to complete their correction.

Then he says that it’s not up to God to write us in the Book of Life, it’s up to us to write ourselves in the Book of Life. We know that the words of these great souls is their energy as well.

It’s not up to God to write us in the Book of Life. We, through our consciousness and our connection, can and will, God willing, write ourselves in the Book of Life.

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We understand the purpose of this wisdom on a personal and global level is to bring complete transformation; when you study the writings of Rav Ashlag, he makes it clear. We know Rosh Hashanah is unique to any other time of the year. The Zohar explains our soul has completely discharged its life energy. Today and tomorrow we will recharge. It’s important to charge ourselves, and to think about the world. We have completely discharged our soul’s ability to sustain itself in this world. To the degree of our desire to share this with the world, to that degree we will recharge our battery.

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I would like to share going back 9 months, maybe more. Most of us know the Rav is not as accessible as he was in previous years. Most of the messages I get are in my dreams.

In a dream, the Rav came to me and said, “You know Michael, it’s just about the Zohar.” To me, and to those of us who have been around the Rav for years and have heard the Rav talk, it IS just about the Zohar. Maybe it takes time and pain and the events that occur in our lives to really get it.

One of the signs that this year is going to be a very special year, is, as I’ve said, the writings we have just received that were written by Rav Ashlag. Many of us know that over the past few years we have been finding and purchasing the writings of Rav Ashlag. For me, one of the ways I can tell if we are on the path that leads toward transformation is our connection to these writings. It’s important for all of us to have a true consciousness of the soul of this person, Rav Ashlag, who came to this world, and the importance of his teaching.

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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.

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The story is that the Baal Shem Tov had a very close student, the person he chose to blow the Shofar for him. The Baal Shem Tov sat with the student and taught him all the meditations and the correct way to blow the Shofar. The student wrote it down and had papers upon papers in his pocket. The Bal Shem Tov took the papers out of his pocket without him knowing.

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