{"id":16539,"date":"2026-01-27T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16539"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:33:41","slug":"our-body-and-kabbalah-the-kabbalah-experience","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/our-body-and-kabbalah-the-kabbalah-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Body and Kabbalah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q: What is the meaning of the assertion that there is nothing in common between Kabbalah and our bodies in this world?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;Indeed, they have nothing in common. The human body is like the body of any other animal, whereas the soul is the desire to be filled with the Creator, meaning to delight \u201cfor Him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The desire replaces its intent from enjoying \u201cfor itself\u201d to enjoying \u201cfor the Creator.\u201d It changes from being a receiver to being a giver, although the act of receiving pleasure remains the same. In that case, the desires of the Creator and the creature are alike \u2013 both are giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, by the fact that the soul is filled with the Creator, meaning it receives for Him, the soul is called \u201ca part of God above.\u201d Only that desire can be filled with Light, meaning the sensation of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Creator created only one thing: a desire to enjoy. That desire is divided in several parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Desires of the world of\u00a0<em>Ein Sof<\/em>\u00a0(infinite world) \u2013 the greatest desires.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desires of the world of\u00a0<em>Adam Kadmon<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desires of the world of\u00a0<em>Atzilut<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desires of the world of\u00a0<em>Beria<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desires of the world of\u00a0<em>Yetzira<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desires of the world of\u00a0<em>Assiya<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desires of \u201cthis world\u201d \u2013 the smallest of all desires, which operate with the intent \u201cfor myself.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Our substance is a small desire for pleasure. The soul evolves in us gradually. We develop our lowest desires through desires for food, sex and family. Then come the desires for wealth, respect, control and power; then for knowledge. If we have developed these desires over thousands of lives in our world, we get from Above a desire for spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the extent that we develop that will correctly, we receive from Above an admission into the Upper Spiritual World and acquire new desires to act \u201cfor the Creator.\u201d By realizing these desires, we receive the Light \u2013 the sensation of the Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is the meaning of the assertion that there is nothing in common between Kabbalah and our bodies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":16078,"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-16539","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 | Our Body and Kabbalah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In &quot;Our Body and Kabbalah,&quot; 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