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The Kabbalah Experience: The Definitive Q&A Guide to Authentic Kabbalah

Fundamental Concepts: a Framework

Q: Everyone ascribes a meaning to his own to life and death, to Light, to the soul etc. How does Kabbalah interpret them?

A: Let me clarify a few concepts:

ConceptDefinition
TimeIn spirituality, time does not exist! Creation is eternal.
CreatorThe desire to delight the creature.
Creature, soulThe desire to delight in the Creator, in the sensation of the Creator, in the Light.
LifeThe fulfillment of the soul by the Light, the sensation of the Creator.
DeathThe exit of the Light, the disappearance of the sensation of the Creator from the soul (as a result of the disappearance of the intent “for the Creator”).
The reception of a soulAn acquisition of desire (to enjoy “for the Creator”), with which it is possible to sense the Creator.
ScreenThe desire to enjoy with the intent “for the Creator”; the holy vessel, the spiritual vessel, the corrected vessel; the vessel of the soul, which can feel the Creator.
Kabbalah(Heb. Reception)The science that explains how to gradually receive a complete soul, meaning complete adhesion with the Creator.
Our worldA state lower than spiritual death, below the sensation of the Creator. Located under the left side of the impure worlds of ABYA (AtzilutBeriaYetziraAssiya).
The birth of the soul, acquisition of lifeA passage from the sensation of our world, to the sensation of the Creator.
Reincarnation, cycles of life and deathThe constant entrance and exit of Light in the vessel of the soul, which continues throughout the correction in the worlds of BYA.