The Body, the Soul and the Afterlife - Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

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

[Music] if you were to ask the average person let's say in um Santa Monica do you have a soul what do you think people will say how many of you would say yes I think almost everybody would if you were to ask them where is it would they have an answer no what would they say in my heart in my heart do they mean their heart physically no so what I want to point out by this is that there's an aspect in everybody which is their essential self their real self that isn't physical so this non-physical self also isn't just a collection of your memories when you study psychology people will often try to paint a picture of what being a human is about in which everything has to do with memory everything is about what you experiened as a child but I want to show you that there's something more so I'm not saying that this isn't true but I'm saying is that there's an additional component what's the additional component I want you to go back to your earliest memory go back as far as you can three earlier I want you to think about all these memories I'm not going to go through all of you because I did come a couple of minutes late which is unfortunate but um there was a person there before all of those later memories came there was still you isn't that true okay so that essential self is what we mean when we say soul so when you talk about your soul your soul and your body don't always have the same plans

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1. 0:04[Music] if you were to ask the average person…
2. 3:38such thing as giving if you have no hand there's no such thing as envisioning if…
3. 7:28doesn't live in the body we use the word heart to mean emotion but not the…
4. 11:09for night like what are you going to do at night go out for dinner go…
5. 15:01someone who's asleep definitely greater peace and definitely no animation there's no soul there and you…
6. 18:45family my whatever was stronger than my desire for this pleasure and I was able to…
7. 21:56if you're fantasizing why not okay so you know and would you be very happy at…
8. 25:36sense so I want to tell you something the body is buried there is no physicality…
9. 29:22violence did you ever have any moments like this in your life not us but you…
10. 33:12person why do you like the person you like the best are these qualities of the…

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