NFBW ref 230422^a “In the Torah, three words are used to describe the soul as it vests itself in a body, Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama (נפש רוח נשמה).
[13] They are found in the following passages:
“The soul (life-nefesh) of the flesh is in the blood.” (כִּ֣י נֶ֣פֶשׁ הַבָּשָׂר֮ בַּדָּ֣ם הִוא֒) (Leviticus 17:11)
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The dust returns to the ground as it was, and the spirit (ruach) returns to God who gave it.”
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ְיָשֹׁ֧ב הֶעָפָ֛ר עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ כְּשֶׁהָיָ֑ה וְהָר֣וּחַ תָּשׁ֔וּב אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְתָנָֽהּ)) (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
“God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils a soul (neshama) of life.”
(וַיִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים) (Genesis 2:7)
These three parts of the soul are alluded to in King Solomon’s statement, (נֵ֣ר יְ֭הוָה נִשְׁמַ֣ת אָדָ֑ם) “the candle of God is the soul of man” (Proverbs 20:27).
The two letters of the word candle (ner- נר) can be seen as an acronym for (נפש רוח) nefesh and ruach, and the word for neshama is found at the end of the verse in the word (נִשְׁמַ֣ת) neshmat.
Neshama mean “breath,” and ruach means “wind.” The word nefesh, from “vayinafash,” means “to rest” as in the following verse:
“For six days God made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested.”
(כִּי־שֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֗ים עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם וְאֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבַיּוֹם֙ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י שָׁבַ֖ת וַיִּנָּפַֽשׁ) (Exodus 31:17)
Rabbi Schneur Zalman explains that the Torah’s use of the word
“breath” to describe the Neshama, to teach that it comes from the
essence of God, and he refers to it as a “part of God.”
[15]Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1934-1983) provides additional insights into this metaphor:
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“God's exhaling a soul can be compared to a glassblower forming a vessel. The breath (neshama) first leaves his lips, travels as a wind (ruach) and finally comes to rest (nefesh) in the vessel.
Of these three levels of the soul, neshama is, therefore, the highest and closest to God, while nefesh is that aspect of the soul residing in the body. Ruach stands between the two, binding man to his spiritual Source. It is for this reason that Divine Inspiration is called Ruach HaKodesh in Hebrew.
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The Torah is teaching us that the human soul came directly from God's innermost essence in the same way that a breath issues forth from a person's lungs and chest cavity. The rest of creation, on the other hand, was created with speech,
[17] which is a lower level.”
We see that the lofty soul’s descent into a physical body serves a purpose: the elevation of the soul and the revelation of God’s presence in the most concealed aspects of the physical existence.
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#8,401 “Duh, you think the process remained the same after the first man and later woman was created ???”
Apr 22, 2023 NFBW {to: 08 401} YES! Actually I am neither Jewish or Christian. I am a rational theist who is educated sufficiently to know that Jewish people have contributed intellectually and honestly to civilization for thousands of years from which the story of Adam and Eve originated.
I read ref 230422^a above as an absolute refutation of your uneducated smart ass attempt of an assertion that
“the breath {of GOD} (neshama) first leaves his lips, travels as a wind (ruach) and finally comes to rest (nefesh) in the vessel” ended with Adam
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There has been no harm or detrimental effect against the civilizing progress of all mankind since Adam and Eve became mortal humans and were exiled from the Garden of Eden because some of mankind believe God breathes a part of the essence of creation into our tiny lungs when we emerge into the world and take our first breath.
God is God duhhh and can give us our souls however the fuck he/she sees fit IMO.