🔥 Why 6 MILLION Jews?
The Zohar (Hadas, Yitro, 38d)) says the angel Anael stands guard over six million open gates.
Based on this teaching, coupled with the Kabbalistic practice of Gematria (interpreting texts by associating words and numbers) Rabbis maintain the prophecies in the Torah (Old Testament) require that Six Million Jews must "vanish" before the state of Israel can be formed.