The collective soul of “Adam” consists of 600,000 parts, or 600,000 souls, separated by the intensity of their will. Before the sin of the first man, every desire was aimed at pleasing the Creator; each was a desire to give to the Creator. But as a result of the sin of the First Man, desires changed from“pleasing the Creator” to pleasing themselves. This is called “a fall” from a spiritual degree to a corporeal one; from an aim to give to an aim to receive.
Before the collective soul was broken, all its parts (souls) were connected by a single intent–“for the Creator.” After the breaking, each part that departed from the soul acquired the intent“for itself,” and the parts were separated. Now, they cannot understand or feel one another.
Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbotrJJQWEw