{"id":16605,"date":"2026-01-27T16:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16605"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:57:40","slug":"ripe-souls-the-kabbalah-experience","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/ripe-souls-the-kabbalah-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripe Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q: I told my relatives about Kabbalah, but they wouldn\u2019t listen. How do I open their hearts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;There are two types of people, meaning souls:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Those who are in their preliminary stage and still do not feel the need for spiritual elevation. They are called \u201cStill\u201d &#8211; inanimate &#8211; in the spiritual sense of the word, because they do not correct themselves, they do not move toward spirituality, like the still in our world. In fact, this term accurately describes the souls of all the people in the world, except for a few hundred Kabbalists and their disciples.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Those people (or souls) that have received a desire for spirituality from above, because it is their turn to start approaching the Creator. They find Kabbalah, begin to study and correct their attributes. In their new attributes, the corrected ones, they receive the sensation of the Creator the spiritual world. The question, \u201cWhat is the meaning of my life?\u201d is what motivates them. It is because of that question that they grow spiritually. They attain the Upper Worlds (in ascending order)\u00a0<em>\u2013 Assiya\u00a0<\/em><em>\u2013 Yetzira\u00a0<\/em><em>\u2013 Beria\u00a0<\/em><em>\u2013 Atzilut<\/em>\u00a0according to their efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>One who attains the degree of the world of&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;is called a \u201cMan,\u201d and before one attains the degree of Man, one\u2019s spiritual development is respectively:&nbsp;<em>Assiya<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 still;&nbsp;<em>Yetzira<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 vegetative;&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 animate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suggest that you do not try to persuade anyone, and in general refrain from speaking to people who oppose or do not wish to hear, as you will not convince them. A person should come to Kabbalah when ready. You can offer others a book, but nothing more. If they react, then the seed (the point in the heart) already exists in their soul. 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