Chasidut zu Jeschijahu 57:16
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א לְעוֹלָם֙ אָרִ֔יב וְלֹ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח אֶקְּצ֑וֹף כִּי־ר֙וּחַ֙ מִלְּפָנַ֣י יַֽעֲט֔וֹף וּנְשָׁמ֖וֹת אֲנִ֥י עָשִֽׂיתִי׃
Denn nicht ewig will ich hadern, und nicht beständig zürne ich; denn von mir stammt der Geist, dessen Hülle der Körper ist, und die Seelen habe ich geschaffen.
Flames of Faith
In the book of Isaiah the prophet revealed that every single human possesses two souls (Isa. 57:16). What is the meaning of two souls? One soul is the breath of God. Lesson Five called this life force the nefesh Elokis. The other soul is the biological soul. It emerges from the kelippos, and in Lesson Five it was called the nefesh ha-bahamis. Since the kelippah copies the domain of the holy, we learned in Lesson Fourteen that the kelippah soul has parts that parallel the five parts of holiness, nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah, and yechidah.
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