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Please explain "nefesh"

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elisecohen

Mon, Feb 27 2006, 7:18 am

Why do we daven after tehillim, etc, for a "refuas haNEFESH urefuas hagoof?" Not "haneshama?" Is it that the neshama is the unchangable part directly connected to G-d and the nefesh is the presentation or actualization of that neshama that we can affect with the goof and it's actions? I don't understand the technical difference between nefesh and neshama.

carrot

Mon, Feb 27 2006, 8:44 am

If the Neshama is the unchangable part directly connected to G-d, then it couldn't possibly need healing...

gryp

Mon, Feb 27 2006, 8:45 am

elise, I dont know the answer to your question in general, but I know that "nefesh" is the first/lowest level of the Neshama.

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