The Wisdom of Kabbalah Does Not Speak of Our Corporeal World
All the words of the Torah are sublime secrets.
The Book of Zohar with the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,
BeHaalotecha, Item 58
The Torah is spirituality.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslev, Collections of the Moharan, 1
The wisdom of Kabbalah mentions nothing of our corporeal world.
Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”
The Zohar speaks nothing of corporeal incidents, but of the upper worlds, where there is no sequence of times as it is in corporeality. Spiritual time is elucidated by change of forms and degrees that are above time and place.
The Book of Zohar with the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,
VaYetze, Item 139
The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only from the root of Assiya in spirituality and upward.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslev, Collections of the Moharan, 225
The secrets of the Torah are clothed in allegories and riddles in the Torah because of the spreading of the Torah and its descent from the sublime degree to this corporeal world.
Ramak, Know the God of Thy Father, 14
Regarding the entry, Adam Kadmon, I was appalled to see that a corporeal form was depicted for the concept of Adam Kadmon of the Kabbalah, which is only a metaphysical concept, a Godly concept. God forbid that we should allow ourselves to materialize these sacred concepts, even as a way of studying.
Rav Raiah Kook,Letters, Vol 1, 162
Woe to that person who says that the Torah is meant to tell literal stories, and in uneducated words of Esau, Laban, etc., for if that were the case, even today we could turn words of an uneducated into a Torah, and even nicer ones than they. If the Torah is meant to show mundane matters, even world rulers have better things among them. Let, Let us follow them and make them into a Torah as well. Rather, all the words of the Torah are sublime secrets.
The Book of Zohar with the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,
BeHaalotecha, Item 58
Such is the Torah. It has a body, which is the Mitzvot of the Torah, called “bodies of the Torah.” This body clothes in dresses, which are stories of this world. The fools in the world see only that clothing, which is the story in the Torah, and know nothing more. They do not observe what exists underneath the clothing of the Torah.
The Book of Zohar with the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,
BeHaalotecha, Item 62
This story in the Torah is the clothing of the Torah. Whoever thinks that that clothing is the actual Torah, and that there is nothing else within it, will be cursed and he will have no share in the next world. This is why David said, “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things from Your law [Torah],” observing what is beneath the clothing of the Torah.
The Book of Zohar with the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,
BeHaalotecha, Item 60
Woe to those wicked ones who say that the Torah is no more than a story, and regard only the clothing. Happy are the righteous who view the Torah appropriately. Wine lies only in the jug; likewise, the Torah lies only in that clothing. Hence, we should consider what exists beneath the clothing. Thus, all of those stories are the clothing.
The Book of Zohar with the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,
BeHaalotecha, Item 64
There is a strict condition during the engagement in this wisdom – to not materialize the matters with imaginary and corporeal issues. This is because thus they breach, “Thou shall not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness.” In that event, one is rather harmed instead of receiving benefit.
Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of
the Ten Sefirot,” Item 156