The Light of the Soul
Let me explain it in souls of people, which are also spiritual: It is known that the form of the spiritual law is simple. Certainly, there are as many souls as there are bodies, where the souls shine. However, they are separated from one another by the disparity of form in each of them. (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Item 4, “Restriction and Line,” Inner Observation).
Question: What does it mean that there are souls and that every soul has some kind of body?
Answer: Desire in itself does not mean anything. But its form, that is, what it strives for and what it wants to be filled with, determines the essence of the desire itself and the object in which it is manifested.
Question: Baal HaSulam writes, There are as many souls as there are bodies where the souls shine. What does it mean that “the soul shines in the body”?
Answer: The point is that desire, which determines the entire property of the body, can vary; it can decrease, increase, and take various forms and types. Thus, some kind of evolution takes place all the time, like a change in the form of desire in its size or in its character. In this way all desires differ from each other.
The inner desire is defined as the soul. This also determines what the essence of this object is and what exactly it wants—whether it wants to receive for its own sake, for the sake of others, to bestow for its own sake or for others, in what form, and so on. All this separates the souls from each other and makes them different in the distance between them in quality and quantity.
Fulfillment of the soul is called light. It turns out that if desires are filled with something, for example, with suffering or with pleasure, then this is called the light of the soul.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22
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