I am often asked: why does a person need a body, why can he not just live inside thoughts? Indeed, the body belongs to the animalistic degree and we want to rise to the human degree that is similar to the Creator. In that case, of course, we will not need this body.

But we have not yet reached final correction, and therefore, in order to rise from degree to degree, we exist in a physical body.

Thoughts alone are not enough. After all, we are born in an animalistic body and exist in it for a certain number of years in order to finally realize that we need to rise above the degree of the body to the degree of thoughts, intentions, and bestowal. That is why we still need this body, and all our work up to the very end of correction can continue in the body.

The body is not a hindrance to spiritual advancement, it does not resist you, but on the contrary, it accompanies you on the path as much as you need. This is a special calculation that happens from above.

Once we correct all the degrees that are subject to correction through existence in the body, by overcoming all the resistance of the body, then this body becomes unnecessary. Then, instead of a physical body of flesh and blood, the will to receive becomes our body, and we continue to exist in our spiritual body.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work?”

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