Kabbalah Library

I heard

Elijah asked him: “What I shall do for you?” And he replied, “a double portion of your spirit.” And he replied, “You asked a hard thing.”

The thing is that there is the sorting of the 288, and there is the stony heart, which cannot be scrutinized. However, when sorting the 288, the stony heart, too, is thus sorted, though it is forbidden to touch it itself. One who scrutinizes these 248, in doing so he scrutinizes the stony heart, as well.