Based on the above, this is explained. Our body – with all of its contingencies and with the insignificant things it has acquired – is not our true body. Our true body – the eternal and wholly perfect one – is already present in the Ein Sof as part of the first stage. It receives its form there [in the Ein Sof], which is the form that it will take in the future in the third stage. [That form is] receiving in the form of giving [i.e., the good that one gains by giving to others], which is identical to the form of the Ein Sof.
True, our situation in the first stage requires that in the second stage, we will receive the husk [kelipa] of that perfect body, with its despicable and defective form – the selfish desire to receive. That [desire] is the force that separates [the soul] from the Ein Sof. That then leads to the repair of the body, which enables us to receive the eternal, completely actualized body in the third stage.
Therefore, we should not complain about this at all. For our service [of God] is unimaginable without this disposable and faulty body, since a person cannot repair what he does not contain. That is to say, even our body in the second stage is in fact perfect, as befitting the perfect Creator who made us. This [physical] body does not hurt us at all, since it will eventually die and be removed.
Our bodies are prepared for us only to the extent necessary for them to [eventually] be removed so that we can receive our eternal form.