{"id":13243,"date":"2025-12-24T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13243"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:02:12","slug":"the-common-soul","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-common-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Common Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The actual root of everything that happens here in our world is called \u201cthe common soul,\u201d or as Kabbalists refer to it,&nbsp;<em>Adam&nbsp;<\/em><em>ha&nbsp;<\/em><em>Rishon<\/em>&nbsp;(The First Man).&nbsp;<em>Adam&nbsp;<\/em><em>ha&nbsp;<\/em><em>Rishon&nbsp;<\/em>is a structure of desires that emerged once the formation of the spiritual worlds was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the five worlds,&nbsp;<em>Adam Kadmon<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Yetzira<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Assiya<\/em>&nbsp;completed their development of the upper part of Phase Four, it was time to develop the lower part.&nbsp;<em>Adam&nbsp;<\/em><em>ha&nbsp;<\/em><em>Rishon<\/em>, which we know as \u201cAdam,\u201d is made of unworkable desires that couldn\u2019t receive Light in order to give to the Creator when they were first created. If you look back at Figure 6, Adam is the next step in the development of Creation, and consists of the parts shown in the grey area in the drawing. The unworkable desires in that part, which formed the still, vegetative, animate, speaking, and spiritual, must now surface one by one and become corrected, or workable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do that, these desires will need the help of the worlds, the workable desires. This is why&nbsp;<em>Adam&nbsp;<\/em><em>ha&nbsp;<\/em><em>Rishon<\/em>&nbsp;evolves by the same degrees as did the worlds and the four basic phases.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Great Fall<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>But with Adam, matters aren\u2019t as straightforward as they were with the Upper Worlds. Although Adam is not aware of it, his desires are egoistic, self-centered; this is why he couldn\u2019t receive Light to begin with. When he followed the example of the Upper Worlds and tried to receive Light, the pleasure of the Light was overwhelming and he wanted to receive it for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recall that when the Phase Four realized she wanted to become like the Creator, the first thing she did was to abstain from receiving Light for her own pleasure, in an act called \u201cthe&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;(restriction).\u201d Adam\u2019s present attempt to receive the Light despite the&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum&nbsp;<\/em>was an attempt to revoke that decision. As a result, the&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum&nbsp;<\/em>was reinforced in full power, and the&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;(screen) immediately repelled all the Light that Adam had received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The repelling of the Light in Adam\u2019s case is very different from the original&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>. When the&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum&nbsp;<\/em>first occurred, it was a move forward from a state of reception without any consideration of the giver, the Creator. In Adam\u2019s case, however, the pleasure made him \u201cblot out\u201d the Creator from his consciousness so he could receive the Light for himself without having to think of the Creator\u2019s joy. This made Adam&nbsp;<em>less<\/em>&nbsp;like the Creator\u2014the force of love and giving\u2014than prior to his receiving the Light. This is why Adam\u2019s attempt to receive Light for himself is considered a sin: it drives him&nbsp;<em>away<\/em>&nbsp;from the purpose of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kabbalistic term for a \u201csin\u201d is \u201cbreaking.\u201d Thus,&nbsp;<em>Adam&nbsp;<\/em><em>ha&nbsp;<\/em><em>Rishon<\/em>&nbsp;broke. Kabbalists explain that Adam\u2019s soul broke into 600,000 pieces. Each piece was a result of Adam\u2019s egoistic attempt, and hence was egoistic, too. An egoistic element is detached from the Creator because it is opposite from Him. This is how our world was created, where the egoistic desires rule and the Creator is hidden from sight by our own egoism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam wasn\u2019t born an egoist; he only discovered his egoism when he tried to use his desires to receive the Light. His intention was to receive in order to bestow, just like the worlds had shown him. But his failure taught him that he was different from them, that he was essentially egoistic and had to be corrected before he could receive, as did the worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shattering of Adam\u2019s soul into many pieces was actually a good thing. In breaking, the great egoistic desire was split into many little pieces of smaller desires, which are easier to correct. Each such desire exists within each of us. When everyone in the world corrects their own share of Adam\u2019s soul, the whole of humanity will be corrected, one soul, receiving in order to bestow, at one with the Creator, and enjoying all the Light that He intended to give us in the Thought of Creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actual root of everything that happens here in our world is called \u201cthe common soul,\u201d or as Kabbalists refer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":13236,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[27],"class_list":["post-13243","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-michael-laitman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | The Common Soul<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chapter 3, \u201cThe Common Soul,\u201d in &quot;Kabbalah For Beginners&quot; 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