Significance of the number 6,000,000

[wonga66]

Is there any reference or significance in Torah, Talmud, Gematria, Codes or Kaballah to the number six million?

[muman613]

Is there any reference or significance in Torah, Talmud, Gematria, Codes or Kaballah to the number six million?

Not that I know... The important number, the number of Jewish neshamahs at Sinai, was 600,000 men between the ages of 20-60... When we calculate how many people stood there, the number is around 3Million {Men with One wife and 2 children}....

[takebackourtemple]

I thought that every Jewish Neshama was there.

[The One and Only Mo]

I thought that every Jewish Neshama was there.

Yes we were, but this number is just about the living group of the people Muman listed.

[muman613]

I thought that every Jewish Neshama was there.

Yes we were, but this number is just about the living group of the people Muman listed.

Yes, this is true...

But there is also a kabbalistic idea that there are only 600,000 souls and we are all just sparks of those souls...

http://www.inner.org/kabbalah/intermediate/unification-emotive-sefirot.php

Let us give another example of the measurement and resolving power that the inner dimension of the Torah has. We see that though we have only 3 patriarchs and 4 matriarchs, they divided into 12 tribes. Later, these 12 tribes divide into the 70 souls that descended to Egypt. Finally, the greatest division of the Jewish people in the Torah (and the revealed tradition, in general) is the 600,000 souls that came out of Egypt. Kabbalah recognizes these as 600,000 as representing the 600,000 soul roots of congregation of Israel. But, Kabbalah also recognizes a further division. Each of the 600,000 soul roots contains 600,000 sparks. Each of these sparks can enliven an entire body for an entire lifetime. This is the smallest spiritual particle. So the inner dimension of the Torah measures the potential of the Jewish people as 600,000 squared individuals!