Although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation.
Thus, in our world, there are no new souls. And the fact that in the meantime, each has changed his body several thousand times is completely irrelevant because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes (Baal HaSulam, “The Peace”).
Comment: Arsen writes: “I was told about my past reincarnations. Not that I believed it, but then I read from your favorite Kabbalist Baal HaSulam and realized that I could be the Pharaoh himself. Please explain what is written about the reincarnation of souls. What kind of soul are we talking about here? What is my soul, which turns out to be immortal if it travels from body to body?”
My Response: There is an animalistic soul. And there is no longer a physical soul, but a spiritual one. But in principle, the reincarnation that we see is not the soul; it is an animalistic body, animalistic forces, that when a person dies, returns, and is born again.
There is nothing here. The most important thing that happens to us is the reincarnation of the spiritual soul. It goes through all kinds of changes until it is ready to attain the Creator.
Comment: That is, all the movement of this spiritual soul from body to body, the change of bodies…
My Response: It is not spiritual. The spiritual soul is the level of attainment of the Creator that a person reached in his previous life.
Question: So does his soul move until he reaches this level?
Answer: After that it still moves many times until it comes to its full correction.
Question: Then is this not about this body?
Answer: No, we are not talking about this body at all.
Question: What is it about? What kind of body is meant here when he says moving from body to body?
Answer: From body to body is only about the spiritual component.
Question: Is the body like a spiritual component? So is this, as we say, a desire?
Answer: Yes. Nothing happens with this body, with our flesh. It is the same as with an animal.
Question: What should my desire come to?
Answer: To the desire for complete adhesion with the Creator. This is the main goal.
Question: Is it about how desire changes all the time? Is this the reincarnation of souls?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Arsen asks: “What does it mean that the same soul moves through time, and dresses in different bodies?”
My Response: This is what it means. A person’s desire to connect with the Creator, gradually, from generation to generation, dresses in various animalistic forms until a person attains a state where he will be similar to the Creator.
Question: Should my desire change and purify in such a way that I want the Creator?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What do you mean by the desire to come closer to the Creator?
Answer: To be bestowing, loving, and connected with others in my qualities, like the Creator.
Comment: Then he has a question: “It turns out that the body is worthless, but we are always afraid that we will die. But here it is written at the end that the soul, the essence of the body, does not suffer from these changes. The body suffers, but the soul does not.”
My Response: Yes. The body dies, rots, and so on, but the soul does not. This is the eternal essence of a person, which yearns for the Creator. It must constantly come closer to the Creator from life to life, from generation to generation.
Question: Why are we so afraid of death? The fear of death drives a person.
Answer: This is because we know what we are losing. A person parts with his body. As long as he holds onto it, he is afraid.
Question: Can I not hold on to it?
Answer: It depends on the person.
Comment: Question: “There is no great joy in returning to this world all the time. How can one not return?”
My Response: To do this, you need to reach your correction. We stay in this world only to rise from degree to degree in our equivalence with the Creator. Then you no longer hold on to your body and do not want anything else at all, except to be attached to the Creator and that is it.
Question: Does the soul then no longer return to this world?
Answer: No.
Question: Where is it then?
Answer: Nowhere. Where is it now? You can say that it is some kind of life-giving force that fills our body because now we still perceive it that way. But in general, this has nothing to do with the body.
Question: Where is the place of the soul, can you tell? Is it not within me?
Answer: There is no place.
Question: There is no place. I need to think about this answer. There is no place at all.
Arsen writes: “I wonder, if I associate myself not with the body, but with the soul, does it then turn out that I can travel in time? The soul, after all, was the same all the time. That is, I can meet myself who lived 3,000 years ago. Can I say that?”
Answer: No, you cannot say that. All this is not simple. We should not tie corporeality to spirituality.
Comment: But you understand that this question is very interesting to people. We cannot escape it.
Another question: “My wife and I feel that we are halves of the same soul. Is that possible?”
My Response: Yes, it is possible. If you really lived your previous life happily, then it is quite possible that next time you will already be in a greater connection with each other, and maybe you will even be one soul.
Comment: This is beautiful! Arsen asks the question: “How can one learn to be with the soul and not with the body?”
My Response: Aim for adhesion with the Creator. This is all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/6/23
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