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This is only a matter of translation, nothing more. Because Nefesh and Neshama are translated as “soul”? Ok, So those were mistranslated. The soul is the corrected Kli with all 5 lights inside. All the rest is only something on the way to the soul. Anything less is not really the soul. But Nefesh is the first spiritual degree. So it’s a sublime change. Neshama is the degree of Bina. Zeir Anpin is a transition, and that is it’s role – a transition between Malchut and Bina.
No action in this world can result in something in the Upper World, except for a deficiency/request. If the request is correct then there is a response. Other than that, we can run, jump to the ends of the universe…no matter what it is it will be along the “path of pain”. That is, the predetermined suffering path which leads ultimately to the same prayer but after a long time and severe suffering. The correct request is the one that is the result of attempting to connect to reality correctly – that is, through a ten, the corrected constellation of others as described by the RABASH.
Bina is fulfilled by getting to bestow. Who gets more pleasure – the crying baby that gets milk or the mother who, stirred from her peaceful sleep, has to wake up and feed him? The mother. It’s a delight because…of the importance of the one she is serving. Hochma, at the end of that stage, found that there was this sublime property, Bestowal, which the Light has, and that’s Above reception, which is all the Desire has. So, I don’t want to use the desire, let it be empty. However, there are only sublime states, except for our world. And this is what makes our world so important and special, that from it and only it one can build oneself as a bestower, to become like the Light.
I don’t know about hell. We are in the lowest state that can exist in reality. But if I’m found in a state where the gap, the oppositeness between me and the Upper Light is revealed, then it truly burns, it’s intolerable like being in fire. You won’t stay in that state. So, then there is the Tzimzum (Restriction) over the desire; and that’s not bad, then I already need to open up the desire, just a bit, to start bestowing back to the Light. At least to start with something tiny.
But we’re not in such states yet. We have no Upper Light that we can perceive, we don’t perceive this force of bestowal, and so we don’t feel opposite to it. In fact, we don’t even feel ourselves to be so much in a Desire to Receive. We don’t identify our intentions in each moment. We just act, basically unconsciously each and every moment. So, you see, we’re exempt from perceiving any states such as are spoken of here.
But if only I felt spiritual shame! Is it really suffering? I don’t know. I have never been ashamed, I’ve spent my whole life making sure I never get to the feeling of shame. So, how I dress, talk, my profession, even what I eat follows the fancy of society. So that I’ll never feel shame, that I’m less than someone else – and it’s preferable that I’ll come out looking even better than others. But never less. That, I must hide from at all costs. So we never arrived a shame. The ego would first chose death. So, this is just to know that we’re lacking a reference sensation here. It’s enough to know that we live every day to avoid Shame because of its high spiritual root. On the way back to spirituality we correct ourselves so as not to feel the Shame again that we learn about here. The system is made so that we’ll achieve equivalence with the Light, and will have no cause for Shame because we’ll be bestowers like the Light, and not as receivers, the go between the two being the cause for Shame.
