Kabbalah zu Schemot 10:78

Let the deaf hear (Isa. 42:18) and the lame run and not get tired. Let the blind see (Isa. 42:18) the teeming visions (Exod. 38:8) which are gleaned and reaped by the heads of the tribes (Num. 30:2), they and their children (Gen. 33:6), commoner and priest alike, as is acknowledged properly. “All is foreseen, and permission is given” (Avot 3:16). Let the men go (Exod. 10:11) to the chief cornerstone (Ps. 118:22) to make books (Eccles. 12:12) which speak of the honor of God to the house of Israel. For all the congregation (Num. 16:3), the suckling with the venerable man (Deut. 32:25), and the mixed multitude fell a lusting (Num. 11:4) for Torah and testimony (Isa. 8:20), and the weaned child shall put his hand (Isa. 11:8).

Rabbi Elazar ben Arach was sitting and was exceedingly sad. Rabbi Yehoshua came before him and asks why the appearance of the candlelight of the world had become dark. He said, Great fear entered me, for I see how the companions versed in the Mishnah have responded on whom the spirit of saints dwells. They said that redemption will be in the sixth millennium. This was well said, but I see a longer time for the dwellers of the dust, who shall wait until the four hundred and eighth year of the sixth millennium, when they will rise. For this reason, the companions were stimulated by the verse that referred to the dwellers of the dust as the children of Chet, for Chet alludes to their rising after four hundred and eight (Heb. Chet Tav) years. As it is written, "In the year of this Jubilee you shall return every man to his possession" (Vayikra 25:13), when this (Heb. hazot) shall be finished. [The numerical value of Hazot is 5,408, as the Hei of Hazot alludes to the Hei (= 5) thousands; and Zot is 408 in numerical value]. Then, "you shall return every man to his possession," means that the body will return to its soul, which is its possession and lot.