{"id":11338,"date":"2025-12-10T16:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11338"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:52:32","slug":"laitman-which-degree-should-one-achieve","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/laitman-which-degree-should-one-achieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Degree Should One Achieve?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Laitman&#8217;s summary of<br>Rabash&#8217;s article &#8220;Which Degree Should One Achieve?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essay 10, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question: What is the degree one should achieve, so he will not have to reincarnate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written in the book&nbsp;<em>Sha&#8217;ar HaGilgulim (Gate to Reincarnations,&nbsp;<\/em>p.10) that &#8220;All the children of Israel must reincarnate until they are complete with all the&nbsp;<em>NRNHY<\/em>. 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In order to beware of them, the Light was divided into small pieces, which are too small for the&nbsp;<em>Klipot&nbsp;<\/em>to suck from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An Allegory:<\/strong>&nbsp;A king wished to deliver a great sum of money to his son who lived across the sea. Since all the people in the king&#8217;s country were conniving thieves, he divided the money into pennies and sent them with a great number of emissaries, so that the pleasure of theft was not worth dishonoring the kingship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this manner, over time and in many souls, through illumination of the days, it was possible to sort out all the holy sparks that were robbed by the&nbsp;<em>Klipot,<\/em>&nbsp;by the sin of the Tree of Knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many souls&#8221; &#8211; that is the division into Inner Lights. Many days &#8211; that is a division into many outer Lights. 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