The Creator created only one thing—something that does not exist in Him and can ostensibly exist outside of His essence.

This something is called creation; it is the desire to receive and be filled and is opposite to the Creator. This is our embryo called “Adam,” from the word “like the Creator” (Edomeh), which is similar to Him in that it comes from the Creator. It is opposite to Him in properties, but similar in expression.

Adam is the property of receiving that exists only as a bestower. The Creator created the desire to receive, but this desire manifests as completely annulled relative to the Creator—an embryo, a point of Bina in the upper light.

And then it divided into many parts and each particle of this property Bina became opposite to the Creator and the light that created it.

As the property of bestowal is divided, it is distanced from the Creator since many different properties that are similar to the Creator in their original form, begin to separate in their similarity and differ from each other. Everyone wants to give to the Creator as He wants to give to them, but everyone is different from the others.

It is how what is called the 600,000 basic parts arise since the system called Zeir Anpin consists of six parts each of which or all together are at the level of 10,000; this is the level of Keter of the world of Atzilut. Thus it is considered that there are 600,000 of them.

In Kabbalah, there is no concept of parts. Spirituality is not divided into parts, but differs from each other in its power. Therefore, when we say that the soul was divided into 600,000 parts, we do not mean quantitatively, but qualitatively, i.e., the level of that spiritual object that the Creator created at the level of “Keter of the world of Atzilut.” It is to this state that we must reach in our correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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