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Kabbalah discusses escaping the power of the sevens and entering the realm of eight.
Every individual has a unique divine soul, meant to express his/her distinctive and unique contribution to the world's understanding of G-d's presence in the world. This may express itself in innovative understandings of the Torah, artistic creativity, acts of kindness, inspiring others to lead holy lives, and so on. This is the person's unique, divine "ego", too often hidden by the alter-ego of the animal soul.
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The Kabbalistic remedy to rectify an egotistic self-serving mentality: take two birds…
The afflication of tzaraat is not a medical condition, but reflects a spiritual-mental affliction, a faulty attitude in life. This attitude results from the intrusion of some form of unG‑dly ideas or perspective into a person's way of thinking, that eventually renders him depressed, negative, anti-social or afflicted by some other negative emotion. The purification process, then, must reflect how the individual disassociates
himself with these negative ways of thinking.
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Kabbalah details the spiritual imbalance at the roots of sickness.
Sam-kel is the name of the demon, an angel whose task is to promote wickedness. He appears in history first as the Primordial Snake, who raped Eve and thereby introduced the seminal evil of self-consciousness and self-orientation into humanity.
When one does not sanctify himself during marital relations, his sexual perversion causes the plague of tzara'at.
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In Kabbalah, the laws of both impurity and of circumcision teach us about humility.
Eve did not have a menstrual cycle, and the process of conceiving and giving birth did not involve any bleeding. Both resulted from her disobeying G-d's command. By experiencing and properly dealing with these phenomena, mankind should ideally undergo a spiritual maturation process that will eventually lead to the final Redemption.
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