And what is that purpose for which He has invented this entire reality before us in the upper worlds and in the lower worlds?…

However, we should understand this question of our sages, who asked about it: “If the purpose of the creation of the worlds was to delight His created beings, why did He create this corporeal, turbid, and tormented world?

Without it, He could certainly delight the souls as much as He wanted, so why did He bring the soul into such a murky and filthy body? (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation“).

There are 125 degrees of attainment of the Creator. Five Sefirot form one Partzuf, five Partzufim form one world, and there are five worlds in total. It turns out that five Sefirot multiplied by five Partzufim and five worlds equals 125 degrees.

In order to attain them from zero to final correction (infinity), I need, as a person in whom there is nothing spiritual yet, to ascend this ladder from the outside.

By ascending to the first degree, I begin to acquire a spiritual vessel, a soul (Neshama).

Before entering the spiritual ladder, I represent a material (animalistic) desire to receive, and after entering, a desire to receive with intention.

Having attained a certain degree, I again fall back into an animalistic state in order to climb to the next degree. It is only in this way! I have no other choice than to make such a “loop” at each step.

Question: Why, besides the animalistic state, the desire to receive, does the protein state, our body, exist?

Answer: It seems to you that it exists because as long as you do not have spiritual attainment, you must feel your desire to receive. Matter has to exist somehow on an inanimate, vegetative, and animate level. And what relates to you as a human being is only your desires. If they have any relation to matter, it is only because they clothed in it. But in principle, this does not matter.

Question: For what purpose are we in the illusion that we have bodies?

Answer: This is a necessary condition for your constant presence in desire.

Question: What does it mean to “bring the soul into the body”?

Answer: The soul is the desire to receive with the correct intention. But sometimes the soul implies the light that enters the desire. And then it turns out that the soul enters and exits.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/15/18

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