This is why the Klipot are called “dead,” since their oppositeness of form from the Life of Lives severs them from Him and they have nothing of His abundance (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 17).

That is, the Creator’s desire is to bestow. A person’s desire is to receive. That is why all people are absolutely opposite to the Creator, they do not feel and do not perceive Him. We are all spiritually dead.

Hence, the body, too, which feeds on the yeast of the Klipot, is also severed from life and is filled with filth. And all of this is because of the will to only receive and not to bestow that is imprinted in it. Its desire is always open to receive the whole world into its stomach.

Body means desire, that is, not the flesh, but rather our desire that is always directed at filling itself.

Question: It is written that the wicked in their lives are called dead. What does it mean?

Answer: Although our physical body is alive, we are still called dead because we do not bestow but receive; that is, we are opposite in our qualities to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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