Question: What is unique about spiritual desires in comparison to social ones?
Answer: We are all a desire. In principle, seeing ourselves as a particular biological structure is just the way it seems to us. In fact, what our eyes see are conglomerates of desires, and nothing else exists in the world.
The Creator [1] only created desires that are placed before us and felt in various forms.
A soul [2] is also a desire, but when it exists as a desire directed toward reception, it is called a “body.” There also is a desire that is built upon the characteristic of bestowal [3] that directs itself toward others.
Those desires that we can change from reception to bestowal become a soul, and those that cannot be changed remain as our biological body.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/13/15
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