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"Father, why isn’t an apple that’s quickly picked up considered to have truly fallen?"

"Ah, my son, not only that—it actually becomes even more beneficial than it was before it hit the ground."

"Why is that?"

"Because, you see, the old microbes were shaken off with the impact, while the new ones haven’t yet had the chance to climb aboard."

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Zero in Kabbalah is that hidden, slumbering potential—or else, something minuscule and seemingly insignificant.

The Heart embodies the symbolism of the Elements of Life.

Thus, the Zero of Life is the dormant or insignificant potential of Life. Or something small or negligible within the Elements of Life.

For example, it may signify a barren desert or a humble insect.

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Fig. 0.1 The Desert. Life is almost absent. Owing to the lack of water and the tyranny of extreme temperatures.15

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Fig. 0.2 The Dead Sea. No Life endures here, for the salt-laden waters brook no rival.16

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Fig. 0.3 Pure medical spirit. No life exists, not even at the level of bacteria, due to its sterilizing powers.17

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Fig. 0.4 Air of the high mountains. Life is almost absent. It is too cold, too rarefied.18

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Fig. 0.5 Surface of Mars, the Moon, Mercury. Life is almost absent here, for lack of atmosphere, water, and because of the extremity of temperatures.

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A distinctive trait of the Zero of Life: upon closer inspection, any living being, under magnification, reveals itself as the Zero of Life.

For instance, a grand creature such as an elephant, when considered against the vast scale of the Solar System and beyond, dissolves into the Zero of Life.

It is also worth noting that the magnitude of the threshold—the 'insignificance of life'—is profoundly subjective. Thus, where one beholds, within the desert, a complete absence of Life, another may yet hunt a little and secure sustenance.

The 'reversed' Zero of Life is that which, once the most insignificant among living beings, has ceased to be insignificant.

For example, in nature, microscopic algae, under propitious circumstances, may swiftly multiply and dramatically transform the face and very Life of a body of water.

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