The thing is that we have to know that all of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls. This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called Zihara Ila’a [upper brightness], which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into numerous pieces (Rabash, Article 10, “What is the Degree One should Achieve In Order not to Have to Reincarnate”).

Thus, we now have discrete states, separated and distanced from each other, even in some aspects opposite to one another. Any state different from another is in some way its opposite. These uncombined, elementary, fundamental states do not resemble each other in any way although they are all fragments of one single desire—Zeir Anpin on the level of Keter of the world of Atzilut. This state is divided into 600,000 parts.

The shattering occurs on a spiritual level even before we begin talking about our existence and sensations.

Following this, the descent of the shattered particles into our world happened, which means a gradual spiritual coarsening and distancing from the quality of bestowal and the quality of connection between them. Naturally, the light within each particle diminishes more and more, and each particle seemingly falls lower and lower in its state until it reaches the lowest state—a coarsening of desire to the point of becoming egoistic, manifesting increasingly in the desire of Adam.

His inner part, his inner nature, which initially does not reveal itself, seems to shed its outer shells that came from the Creator, and his own structure, his own desire, his own nature—the desire to receive only for oneself that is, an absolutely egoistic desire enclosed within itself—becomes more and more apparent. This desire is the human being in our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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