complete the correction of their souls". His primary publications: Shamati ("I Heard"): This is the Ashlag's personal notebook, where he wrote what he had heard from his father throughout the time he was studying with him. The uniqueness of the book is in its content, and the (conversational) language in which it is written. The book contains essays that describe the spiritual states one experiences along the spiritual path. These essays are the only documentation that we have of the conversations the author of the Sulam commentary had had with his disciples. The book title comes from the writing that appeared on the cover of the notebook in which it was written, where Ashlag himself wrote, "Shamati" (I heard). From the 2nd printing onward, the book also contains "The Melodies of the Upper World," music notes to 15 of the melodies Baal HaSulam and Ashlag composed. Igrot Rabash ("Letters [of the] Rabash"): These are letters Ashlag had sent to his disciples while he was overseas. In his letters, Ashlag answers his disciples' questions concerning their spiritual path and progress, indicates the spiritual meaning of the Jewish holidays according to Kabbalah, and addresses many other issues. Dargot ha Sulam ("Steps [of] the Ladder"): This is a two-volume publication containing primarily utterances and notes that Ashlag had written in the course of his life. These were mostly written as drafts on scraps of paper and served as headlines, drafts for essays and answers he'd written to his disciples. This book can teach a lot about Ashlag's state of mind and thoughts, and it continues the essays in the book Shamati. Shlavey ha Sulam ("Rungs [of] the Ladder"): A comprehensive five-volume composition containing all of Ashlag's essays between 1984 and 1991. In this publication, Ashlag explicates in detail his kabbalistic doctrine, beginning from man's work in a group, which is a fundamental element in this teaching, through a kabbalistic interpretation of the Torah (Pentateuch) as an allegory to a person's spiritual path in our world. Social doctrine Ashlag asserted that a human being is a social being and that one cannot exist without a society that provides for one's basic needs, and projects its values upon its members. As his father before him, Ashlag believed that an individual is constantly affected by the environment he is in. From the moment a person enters a certain society, he no longer has freedom of choice