Everything occurring in our world is the result of the Upper forces’ influence that descends to our world. In order to really understand what is happening, it is necessary to study the Upper forces, their attributes, predestination and purpose.
It may seem to us that the difference between the sexes is merely external and hormonal and that we can make a man into a woman in a purely medicinal way by using surgery and hormone replacement. However, the difference is much deeper and it lies in the very root of the universe, in our souls´ roots. The difference comes from there and precisely we, men and women, have different types of souls.
Spiritual birth is when a person replaces his own power with the power of the Creator: a person voluntarily submits to the rule of the Creator, desires to act despite of his reason, and follows the wisdom of the higher spiritual level.
Kabbalistic meaning of the seven days of creation, the Biblical Flood, section on the meaning of the letters and Kabbalistic music.
When we study the Torah (Pentateuch, Bible) we must understand that all the words of the Torah and all other sacred books just appear to be words associated with our world. The words however represent spiritual objects and roots, which are under no circumstances connected to our world. There should be no confusion of these spiritual concepts and physical objects.
Just as a person in our world cannot exist without knowledge of our world, a person’s soul cannot exist in the spiritual world, having not acquired certain knowledge of its laws and nature.
However, in order to gain knowledge of the spiritual world, one is required to have a soul. Only then it becomes important to him to understand the nature of the spiritual world, for this is what gives one's soul the ability to exist in it.