Spiritual Meaning of the Number Seven in kabbalah

The number seven, as it appears in the portion of the week dealing with counting the Omer, connects to a form of oath or promise. Within human consciousness, this is a revelation in the vessel: not that I need to reach something outside, but that something of the Creator is already in me, and what will allow me to come closer to Him is already present within. This is connected to what is called a*reshimo* - the impression that the light left in me. The seventh can be understood as Binah, or as Malchut connecting itself to Binah, where Malchut begins to receive from that nature and extend toward it as a form of completion. This seventh also relates to Shabbat, to the sabbatical, to*Shnat Shemita*, and to the jubilee,*Yovel*.

When this process goes through seven rounds, reaching seven times seven, forty-nine, it brings a person closer to the nature of Binah. The fiftieth is not a continuation of counting - not forty-nine to fifty as another number - but a different state, a leap, a comprehension or cognition of the presence of the higher in me. As part of this, there are what is described as seven forces or aspects coming from the left side, from the origin of Malchut, from the need. They include all the seven wisdoms - music, mathematics, geometry, physics, biology, astronomy - all human knowledge that is recruited into the need to know. They function as learning aids, extending consciousness, but with that comes the awareness of the limitation of that kind of knowledge, and they create the language and the will that allow a deeper penetration into Torah and into the light.

The voice of the Shofar of Messiah is a calling for the last generation, pointing to the difficulty, the limitation, and the cruelty of separation from the plan of the Creator, and in that calling it defines this as a period of preparation in which what was covered is gradually being revealed through the years, through millennia.