Perception of reality is the most important topic because a person wants to know in what reality he exists, in what kind of world he was born.

How are the upper worlds and the lower world built, how do they exist, by what forces are they controlled, what is the reason for such existence, what are its results, and toward what everything is moving—we need to reveal all this. And this is why the correct perception of reality is so important.

For simplicity of understanding, we can say that there are two worlds: the upper world and the lower world or the spiritual world and the corporeal world. In the corporeal world, which we feel with our five senses, we exist according to the flow of time.

Time is our inner feeling, and according to our feeling everything happens at some time. We associate the flow of time with various external factors: the sun, moon, stars, and past events that give us a general sense of the past.

We do not know what the upper (spiritual) world is. But according to the stories of Kabbalists, people who have revealed the upper worlds, other times and forms of existence operate there. We can reveal them, feel and exist in them, and in this way we will attain the eternal and perfect reality in which there is no beginning and no end. There we exist above time, space, and all movement.

The spiritual reality exists outside of time, motion, and space, and the corporeal world is inside time, motion, and space. Since our sensory organs are based on the perception of a corporeal system of coordinates, meaning, time, place, and motion, we therefore feel only this reality.

If we want to feel the true, spiritual reality, we will have to rise to it in our perception by changing our sensory organs. We will no longer feel reality as a physical movement in corporeal time, but we will feel it in a spiritual form, and this is how we will live. The Book of Zohar writes that spiritual time is determined by the change of forms and degrees that are above space and time.

It is very important to imagine what the upper spiritual world is, which exists above time, motion, and space, and how we can feel it, live in it, and connect everything that is there with our corporeal world so that these two worlds will merge into one for us.

When we attain what time based on changing forms and degrees means, we will understand what the corporeal world is and what the spiritual world is and how these two worlds are connected. We will also understand why the Creator created us with a sense of the corporeal world and why from here we must ascend to the upper, the spiritual, world in order to feel ourselves between two worlds— the upper and the lower.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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