There Are Very Great Ascendant Ones Who Beget Souls

273 - There Are Very Great Ascendant Ones Who Beget Souls Know that there are sons who are begotten in this world, but there are very great ascendant ones who beget souls that are above the souls that clothe in the sons born in the world. For all the souls that are in the world are sixty myriad, and even if there are more, they are only from the division of the sparks, but in general they are only sixty myriad. But these souls mentioned above are above the sixty myriad souls that clothe in this world, because they are not fitting at all to clothe in this world. And even when they come into this world, they are not considered part of this world at all. And this is the aspect of the sons of Moses, about whom it is written "And the sons of Rechavya increased upward" [1 Chronicles 23:17], and our sages, of blessed memory, expounded [ Berachot 7a]: "upward" from sixty myriad, because they were above them as the above.