Guf

According some Judaic teaching-namely the Kaballah -there are only 600,000 souls-according to them they are all Jewish. So, this would tell perhaps the uninitiated that everybody else is doomed, or does not belong anywhere, perhaps they were accidents, the other 6,4000, 000 souls/ people on the planet-maybe they, we are fragments of the original 600,000. But- if you really study and hear what the Judaic teaching said , it all makes sense and all have a place at the table.

 In the Kaballah-there is the belief of re-incarnation-it is explained that the “soul fragments”-so different fragments go into different bodies at different times-.

So the 600, 000 souls fragment- x 10 (fragment./bodies) = 6,000,000;  and they keep fragmenting! 10x 6,000,000=60,000,000; 10x60,000,000=6,000, 000,000- so forth…you get the picture..\How many lives do have had to live up to now? – many, but not that many by this standard.

Thus we are the 600, 000 originally created souls- if we believe this statement than we are all connected as  if we were all fragmented. According to this we would only have had to live each soul – 30 to the 3^rd power of lives till now. This  is a lot, but not really in the scheme of creation;  if we are 6,000,000,000 according to the calculation - a few extra for  we are 7,000,000,000.

So we are part of everyone- and we are everyone in a sense.- but it is not over yet-as there are still souls in storage in the Guf-so before the end comes, before  the arrival of the Messiah- they have to incarnate…so we need to keep on reincarnating till all have arrived. We are indeed fractals of the whole, that is of the Creator.

Till now we are around 1000+lives lived each-more or less/some behind some ahead. And apparently we are all Jewish (smily face here).
 

“The word Guf is derived from Hebrew for "body/corpse". The Guf can also be referred to as the Otzer (Hebrew for "treasury"). It is the source of every human soul. In some traditions the Guf is located in the celestial plane of Aravot, other times it is located beneath God's Throne of Glory, which resides "above" Aravot. Though some cite Isa. 57:16 as the source of the concept, Isaiah never uses the word, so the Talmud offers one of the earliest direct references to the Guf and teaches that the Messiah will not come until the Guf is emptied of all its souls (Yev. 62a-63b; A.V. 5a). This is given a longer, if more enigmatic treatment in a work of early Kabbalah, Sefer Bahir: 

In its [? - there is no clear antecedent, perhaps the 'World to Come' discussed earlier] hand is the treasury of souls. In the time when Israel is good, these souls are worthy of going forth and coming into this world. But if they are not good, then [these souls] do not go forth. We therefore say, "The son of David will not come until all the souls in the Guf are completed." What is the meaning of "all the souls in the Guf [Body]"? We say this refers to all the souls in the body of The Adam [Kadmon]. [When they are completed] new ones will be worthy of going forth [Bahir 184].

The peculiar idiom of describing the treasury of souls as a "body," as I indicate in my translation, is connected to the mythic tradition of Adam Kadmon, the primordial human. Adam Kadmon, God's "original intention" for humanity, was a supernal being, androgynous and macro-cosmic (co-equal in size with the universe). When this spiritual Adam sinned, his cosmic-sized soul burst asunder and humanity was demoted to the flesh and blood, bifurcated and mortal creatures we are now. According to Kabbalah, every human soul is just a fragment (or fragments) cycling out of the great "world-soul" of Adam Kadmon. Hence, every human soul comes from a "guf ", that being the supernal body of Adam Kadmon. Part of the project of humanity it to effect the tikkun, the restoration, of the soul of Adam Kadmon.

In keeping with other Jewish legends that envision souls as bird-like (Derived from the Biblical notion that the dead "chirp" - Isa. 29:4), the Guf is sometimes described as a columbarium, a dove cote. This connects it to a related legend: the "Palace of the Bird's Nest," the dwelling place of the Messiah's soul until his advent (Zohar II: 8a-9a).

 Again in the Guf we encounter the mystical notion of the whole universe being permeated with consciousness. It also reinforces the notion of the interconnectedness, the brotherhood (sorry, there just is no gender neutral idiom for this concept) of humanity which is at the heart of the Genesis account. The legend of the Guf, however, asserts our essential spiritual as well as biological relatedness.”

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