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I N T RO D U C T I O N T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R sake” is called Klipa. The intention “for the sake of the Creator” is called Kedusha. We need to come to the point when the intention “for one’s own sake” will be dead in us. If we achieve the intention “for the sake of the Creator”, that will be the resurrection. 104 Let us look at what Baal HaSulam writes. While reading the text without commentaries, one may think of fairy tales about the resurrection of dead bodies that arise from the graves and wander around. Why then does the body return and rise at the “resurrection of the dead”? Could the Creator not delight the souls without it? Baal HaSulam’s question concerns neither the body nor the soul, but rather the reason why we have to go through all these transformations. Why do we have to stay in Klipot until we consider them dead and bury them, until they are completely decomposed? We can use the body (desire) and start working on this desire “for the sake of the Creator” only after we free ourselves from the egoistical intention. Let us suppose that I have a desire with initially egoistic intentions, everything for my own sake. This is my first state. My second state is when under the influence of the Higher Light that I draw upon myself by reading Kabbalistic texts, these desires begin to gradually leave me. I begin to feel my condition as evil and it slowly comes out of me. I sense that they (desires) are dying and reach the condition when I am com-
I N T RO D U C T I O N T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R pletely free of them. On my next level, I begin to adopt the Creator’s properties and aspire to Him. This is called resurrection of the body. By “the body” we always mean the desire. It remains the same; nothing happens to it, only the intention changes. The body always consists of the same desires. I always have 620 desires in my body. By and large, we can easily understand this. The question always arises about another matter. Why are we bound to receive bad intentions “for our own sake” to begin with? Why should we see them as bad, and then wish to be completely free of them and finally begin to acquire good intentions? Baal HaSulam says: Why then does the body return and rise at the “resurrection of the dead”? Could the Creator not delight the souls without it? Why can we not receive good properties from the beginning and be one with the Creator at once? Why do we have to discover Him through bad properties? 105
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