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Neshamah-Soul first invested soul level expresses Binah-Understanding, the developed intellectual faculties; Ruach-Spirit emotional level of invested soul expresses Chesed-Kindness to Yesod-Foundation, the emotional faculties (in Lurianic Parzufim of Kabbalah these form one unit, as do each of the five corresponding levels in the Sephirot)
And the Lord God created man in two formations; and took dust from the place of the house of the sanctuary, and from the four winds of the world, and mixed from all the waters of the world, and created him red, black, and white; and breathed into his nostrils the inspiration of life, and there was in the body of Adam the inspiration of a ...
Job 12:7–10 parallels the words רוח and נפׁש (nephesh): “In His hand is the life (nephesh) of every living thing and the spirit (ruah) of every human being.” The Hebrew term nephesh chayyah is often translated "living soul". [6] Chayyah alone is often translated living thing or animal. [7]
[4] [5] [6] Proverbs 20:27 uses the same Hebrew word (neshamah) for the spirit of man, indicating that God's breathe of life and man's spirit are closely related. [7] George Boardman describes the Divine Pneuma and the human pneuma as "constitutionally akin" [8] while Heard ascribes to them the same nature. [9]
Ruach (רוּחַ): the middle soul, the "spirit". It contains the moral virtues and the ability to distinguish between good and evil. Neshamah (נְשָׁמָה): the higher soul, or "super-soul". This separates man from all other life-forms.
From understanding the Kabbalistic description of the human soul, we can grasp the meaning of the Divine scheme. Ultimately, this is seen as the reason that God chose to emanate His Divinity through the 10 Sephirot, and chose to create the corresponding chain of four Worlds (called the "Seder hishtalshelus"-"order of development"). He could ...
Thanking God for all he does. Elohai Neshamah: אלהי נשמה Thanking God for restoring the soul in the morning. Said following washing the hands and Asher Yatzar blessings. Blessings over the Torah: ברכות התורה Thanking God for giving us the Torah and a blessing on the Torah that will be learned over the course of the day.
It also believes in a triple soul, of which the lowest level (nefesh or animal life) dissolves into the elements, the middle layer (ruach or intellect) goes to Gan Eden (Paradise) while the highest level (neshamah or spirit) seeks union with God. Some Jews consider tikkun olam ('repairing the world') as a fundamental motivating factor in Jewish ...