Question: What is the difference between the corporeal and the spiritual?

Answer: The point is that the work we do in the corporeal world is not true work.

What does not true work mean? You perform real actions, yet you do not perceive that you are working with real entities. We carry out spiritual actions, but we do not feel this, like an infant who does not know that he is developing through various actions.

I observe my little grandson. What kind of mind does he have, what understanding? None! He puts everything into his mouth, bangs things together like a monkey. He does not even have an idea of what he is doing, but nevertheless, all these actions contribute to his development.

And how are we different from him? We have also been thrown into some place, forced to sit here with the help of some thoughts, open books and do something similar to what he does.

So, I also now look into the book, because I was given such a desire. I read, I am obligated through all sorts of thoughts and means to be interested in it. I hope that I will have some good results from this and thus resolve what makes me feel bad.

Now, perhaps I can add some contribution of my own to this work. After all, I would like to independently relate to what I am doing now and not as an obligation from above.

If I search for this point so that it will be mine, truly independent, I will reveal it after all the circumstances that obligate me from above, as a puppet, to engage in study, dissemination, work in the kitchen, and in various activities through the environment, or directly from above, or through my natural qualities.

If I want to have my own participation, my own stake, then this point, even if it is a small movement toward it being my free desire, will already mark the beginning of the soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”

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