Breathing into Existence: The Origins of the Soul

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] great to see everyone let's go now into the origins of the Soul okay we're going into The Godly Soul now and we're going to explain where it comes from we spoke last time about the creation of man in the first Narrative of the toyra and then we saw in the second narrative that something unique happened to Adam what was the unique occurrence in the narrative unique occurrence in the narrative number two of the Toy's creation account of man something different happens he's given What's called the he's given The Godly soul that the living soul is breathed in to Adam in the second creation narrative now every single thing in creation has a certain narrative how is creation has a certain narrative how is it created and why how is every part of creation created as you just read the Torah you see that it's all in one fashion all through Hashem speaking it's all through speech every single thing in the creation you'll notice is AEM speaking now that's all allegory for the infinite coming into the finite this is all an allegory this the finite this is all an allegory this is all very deep things but the allegory for us from the perspective of the finite creation is through Hashem creating through speech now what does it mean God speaks he reveals so speech is not you know if I speak very loudly then God speak let there be it can't be that that's just attributing finite tremendous fin

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1. 0:00[Music] great to see everyone let's go now into the origins of the Soul okay we're…
2. 2:31essential fabric of what a Jew is and it's we're going to share that with Humanity…
3. 5:07fact that when this soul is breathing into Adam he gained the faculty of speech which…
4. 7:44raw materials but now you Choose Wisely yes to that point um we learned together how…
5. 10:18I'm saying so I'd be fascinated we we'll look into that that that was I don't…
6. 12:51US is deeply connected with deep God Consciousness very deep God Consciousness and God is so…
7. 15:25uh we uh or I guess I learned recently how like uh the reason like ysf…
8. 17:56bring back to the isas have to bring back to the world real healthy breathing now…
9. 20:29very old things the smell is a very very old sense like my father always says…
10. 23:02speak meaning according to what you talk about Abra Kadabra I'm going to create things according…

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