Now you can understand the real difference between spirituality and corporeality: Anything that contains a complete desire to receive, in all its aspects, which is phase four, is considered “corporeal.” This is what exists in all the elements of reality before us in this world. Conversely, anything above this great measure of desire to receive is considered “spirituality” (Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah“).

Question: What does it mean?

Answer: This means that everything that comes from the Creator and passes through the earlier stages to Malchut is still as if in the Creator Himself where only the light reigns. Once the desire appears, we can talk about creation.

The creation starts making such opportunities in receiving the light from the Creator, in which it studies the Creator to the point that it becomes similar to the Creator in actions.

Question: How can you define what is spiritual?

Answer: The spiritual is what allows us to become like the Creator.

Comment: But no one knows who the Creator is.

Answer: The Creator is the property of bestowal, love, and caring for others. It is His love that created the entire universe and our existence. Therefore, if we act like him, we are called true creations.

Question: So, if I want to become a spiritual person, I have to develop the quality of love toward the creatures?

Answer: Yes. Love another as yourself is the basic law of nature because in this way you become like the Creator. While the material world is the opposite; it distances you from the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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