Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 115

Is an Embryo Male or Female?

In our corporeal world, an embryo can be either male or female. In spirituality, a person goes through various states: still, vegetative, animate, speaking, angelic, and resembling the Creator. Each of these states contains thousands of stages.

This means that every soul undergoes development, first as Nekeva and then as Zachar, and again Nekeva and then Zachar. However, in our world, these alternating states take on a fixed physical form, either male or female, because, relative to spirituality, our world is still, meaning it does not change.

Thus, every stage in spirituality, every action, every quality, everything that exists and constantly changes there, assumes a fixed and unchanging form in our world, as it happens with an embryo.

Beyond this, there is also variation in the types of souls. It depends on which part of Adam HaRishon the desire originates from. The soul is an individual desire within the general soul called Adam HaRishon, and its nature depends on which part of this spiritual body it comes from.

Within the body of Adam HaRishon, there are numerous distinctions, right side, left side, above, below, above the chest, below the chest, and so on.

Likewise, cells within the human body differ from one another. Each cell contains something unique, functions and behaves differently, and connects with other cells in various ways that are characteristic of it.

This is also true in spirituality. Souls interconnect in the same way. Our physical cells are merely a result, a copy, a physical manifestation of what takes place in spirituality.

From this, we can understand how vastly different we are from one another, yet at the same time, how we are all interconnected as parts of a single body.

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