A Tremendous BondingThen he added, "There was a great Rabbi in the last generation called Chofetz Chaim. He used to pack his bags every Saturday night and wait for the Messiah. "The idea is that God created us," Rabbi Eliezrie continued. "We are, in a sense, like children of the Lord, but there’s a tremendous bonding between God and mankind because each person possesses a certain element of God, a soul. A human being basically has two components—the physical and the spiritual. Death is the separation of body and soul. After death, even if you repair the body, it will not come to life, because it lacks the soul. The soul is the essence of the individual." "Is that soul the presence of God in the person?" I asked. "Yes," the Rabbi responded. "It is God’s presence in us?" I asked. "It’s called neshama — a piece of God which actually exists within man," he explained. |
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