{"id":13173,"date":"2025-12-23T20:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13173"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:27:19","slug":"stage-two","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/stage-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The second stage in humanity\u2019s spiritual evolution started about two thousand years ago, when&nbsp;<em>The Book of Zohar<\/em>, the most important book of Kabbalah, was written and then concealed. It was written shortly after the people of Israel were exiled for what was to be their last and longest exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like Abraham and Moses in Stage One, the second stage had two giants of its own: Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (Rashbi) and The Holy Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria). Rashbi\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Book of Zohar&nbsp;<\/em>is, as the book itself states, a commentary on the Torah. Just as Moses explained Abraham&#8217;s words to the entire nation,&nbsp;<em>The Book of Zohar&nbsp;<\/em>is intended to explain Moses\u2019 words to the entire world. This is why one often reads that&nbsp;<em>The Book of Zohar&nbsp;<\/em>is destined to appear in the time of the Messiah, at the \u201cend of days.\u201d It is also why Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the great twentieth-century Kabbalist, wrote that the rediscovery of&nbsp;<em>The Book of Zohar&nbsp;<\/em>is proof that the \u201cdays of the Messiah\u201d are here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/eng\/content\/view\/clean\/58917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/var\/kbl\/storage\/images\/kabbalah\/nauka_kabbala\/spryyt_ktby_mqoblym\/mihael_lajtman\/sprym\/kabbalah_for_beginners\/part_one_the_history_of_kabalah_chapter_1_kabbalah_chronicles\/kabbalah_chronicles\/comment\/1125729-1-eng-GB\/comment_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have found it written that the above decree to not openly engage in the wisdom of truth was only for a time\u2014until the end of 1490. From then on \u2026the sentence has been lifted, and permission was given to engage in&nbsp;<em>The Book of Zohar<\/em>. And from the year 1540 it has become praiseworthy to engage in great numbers, since it is by this virtue that the Messiah King will come, and not by another virtue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Rabbi Avraham Azulai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to the book,&nbsp;<em>Ohr ha Chama (Light of the Sun)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>____________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, the only antidote to a rise in egoism is unity, and the greater the egoism, the more important it is for people to unite. At first, uniting Abraham&#8217;s followers and family was enough. Then, when Moses fled from Egypt, he had to unite a whole nation in order to succeed. Today, we need to unite the whole of humanity. Egoism has reached such an intensity that unless the whole of humankind unites to overcome it, we will not succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second stage in the process of humanity\u2019s bonding with the Creator was very different from the first. It was a time of subtle growth, when the tool to unite humanity\u2014the wisdom of Kabbalah\u2014was being refined and improved in dimly lit rooms and within small, inconspicuous groups. This is why the two most significant works of that period, Rashbi\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Book of&nbsp;<\/em><em>Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;and the Ari\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Tree of Life<\/em>, were hidden by their own authors as soon as they were completed. They resurfaced many years later, and in the case of&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;<\/em><em>Zohar,<\/em>&nbsp;many centuries later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second stage in humanity\u2019s spiritual evolution started about two thousand years ago, when&nbsp;The Book of Zohar, the most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":13170,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[27],"class_list":["post-13173","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-michael-laitman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | Stage Two<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cStage Two\u201d in &quot;Kabbalah For Beginners,&quot; 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