Q: What is the difference between number 7 and 8? It seems that both point to the same thing? 7 is like the 7th day shabbat (that refers to the Being)? And 8 is the beyond the manifested also. Is there any difference? A: Our sages teach in Masechet Berakhot (page 57b) that Shabbat is a foretaste of the World to Come. What is meant by this? Already on the seventh day, one can feel what it feels like in the World to Come, in a permanent state, as in the eighth day. Shabbat is the day of rest, when everything is at rest, and it is a beautiful expression of non-duality. It represents a reality before the creation of the illusion of time and space. This is why the laws of not carrying objects on Shabbat exist, to give the person a feeling of a complete world, before the creation of the... Read More