The Greatness of Man's Soul

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

Tonight, I want to continue the topic that I started last week. Uh which the Ramchal in a certain sense devotes a lot of time to. In his book, Derech Hashem. And it's all the it's all about the concept of what's called prophecy. And like I said, you know, I I mentioned that prophecy is not what we think it is. You see. You see. In any case, before I begin, this this year should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Reuven, Regina bas Yosef Reuven and Yeshurun ben Yisrael, Benjamin Wolf ben Tzvi Hirsch and Boruch ben Benjamin Wolf. And what he does, And what he does, the Ramchal, is he goes into the area or the topic of the the composition, the structure of the of man. And I mentioned a very important idea. And that man, Adam, a human being, is the only person or being that is a composite of spirituality, of neshama, which we know, and physical guf, body. guf, body. There is nothing in creation that can equal that type of uh composition. So, that puts man and gives him specific assets or specific abilities, capacities that he has as a result. And that's what the Ramchal wants. He could have made him purely physical, like an animal, you know, except as we as I I think I I mentioned, you know, as I I think I I mentioned, you know, uh a person would have had a guf, right? And he would also have what's called a nefesh tachtona, an animal soul, which is physical, by the way. The Ramchal says that the nefesh tachtona, that's what it's called, the lower soul, is purely physical, very subtle, purely physical, and resides in the blood. That's why it says ki adam hu nefesh in so on. And uh all of person's faculties, which

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