T273 PNC - Some Great Souls Beget Souls Above the 600,000

Know that there are sons born in this world, but there are very great elevated ones (elyonim me'od) who beget souls higher than the souls that clothe themselves in regular sons born to the world. All souls in the world number sixty myriad (600,000); even when there appear to be more, the additional souls are only sub-divisions of those original sparks — in essence still 600,000. But the souls referred to here are above the 600,000 entirely; they are not fit at all to clothe in this world, and even when they do come into this world, they are not considered part of it at all. This is the secret of "the sons of Moshe Rabbeinu" — about whom it is written, "and the sons of Rechavyah multiplied upward" (I Chronicles 23:17), and the sages expounded (Berachot 7a): "upward — above the sixty myriad," because they were above the regular souls.