Teil 11 · Kapitel 77

However, these things appear puzzling, for indeed "from our flesh we shall see God." For the fetus in its mother's womb has all two hundred and forty-eight limbs and ten Sefirot, which are the six extremities of the body, and it also has a head and Mochin after the first three months when the fetus becomes recognizable, and we do not see any increase in the number of limbs — rather, the limbs themselves, which it had from the beginning, gradually expand and grow, little by little, in each of the three periods mentioned, until it becomes large.