The Possuk states יָמִּים יֻצָרוּ “Days have been formed” that a person is allotted a predetermined fixed number of days as the Possuk states יְמֵי־שְנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִּבְעִּים שָנָה גוֹ׳ “The span of our life is seventy years”. This allotted time is not given for the benefit of the Divine soul within him because the Divine soul does not need to be rectified. This allotted time is given as the lifespan of a person for the benefit of one’s animal soul that pervades him.
The amount of time allotted to a person is the time that HaShem in His great wisdom blessed be He has assessed to be sufficient for one to be able to engage with one’s soul so as to elevate all the energies and sparks that fell there in the breakup of the vessels (as is explained in many Chassidic discourses).
Our material world benefits from a Seder Hishtalshelus in which HaShem’s creative and vitalising energy filters down from His infinite highs in an organised and controlled manner so as to contain and distribute the Divine light from level to level as it contracts to become concealed enough to be able to create and vitalise our finite world. However, prior to our world (which in an environment without the concept of time means higher spiritually than our world) HaShem created a seemingly less organised world in which the Divine lights were far too many for the few vessels and HaShem allowed that world to collapse thus causing the breakup of the vessels which caused a mixture of good and bad when the sparks fell into areas that are not holy, which ultimately facilitated our world and perspective. Thus, our world is called the world of ‘Tikkun’ – rectification in which our mission is to gather the lofty sparks of the world of Tohu that were too great to be contained in the vessels of the previous world and contain them in our vessels.
