The spiritual world and the soul are simply desires in their direct, pure form. But the science of Kabbalah speaks about states where the soul is clothed in a body. Kabbalists do not describe the states of a soul that is not clothed in a body, although of course they know about them and are connected with them.

The soul of a person who rises above the Machsom, above the boundary of the spiritual world, to the extent of the anti-egoistic screen already feels itself free from the body.

During one’s life in this world while a person’s soul is clothed in a body, one must correct all one’s desires so that the body does not present any barrier at all between oneself and other souls that are without bodies. Such a state is called the end of correction (Gmar Tikkun).

A special language is required to describe the states of souls because our entire language is based only on the concepts of this world. So where can words be taken from to describe the states of souls?

Kabbalists saw that although the body is made of completely different material, its structure is analogous to the structure of the soul. And therefore, it is possible to call the parts of the soul and spiritual actions by the same names as the parts of the body and its actions, even though there is no connection between them. Thus the “language of branches” was invented.

It turns out that Kabbalists use ordinary earthly language to describe spiritual phenomena, but if we want to read about what happens with the soul and not with the body, we must seek a spiritual meaning in the words, not a material one. That is, even if we do not yet know the spiritual meaning of the words, we need to remain with this question and must not imagine material images. Otherwise, we will never come out of this world.

Kabbalists gave us the language of branches and obligated us to study Kabbalistic books so that during the study we would strive to understand what is hidden behind these words, which spiritual qualities or phenomena. That is, we try to translate what is written from the earthly, human language into the spiritual one, as if we translate each word from one language into another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/6/26, Rabash, “On My Bed at Night”

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