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The neshama is the spiritual energy that pulls the lower levels toward the highest realms; it can be seen as transcending or transforming the lower levels.
Moral Grammar 2007
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The neshama is the creation mentioned on day six of Genesis that changed an animal, amoral Adam into an Adam with moral responsibility Genesis 1:26, 27.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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The neshama is the creation mentioned on day six of Genesis that changed an animal, amoral Adam into an Adam with moral responsibility Genesis 1:26, 27.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Finding one's own authentic neshama, soul, requires a lot of money.
Angela Himsel: Nosh, Davin, Kvell, or Eat, Pray, Love, the Upper West Side Way 2010
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She doesn't have enough money for a thorough, neshama-searching journey that will take her through concentration camps or across the Mediterranean, and she has a terrible aversion to an entire weekend eating over-salted beef teriyaki that bears an uncanny resemblance to brisket, and speed dating with nudnick Shloimeys who have jobs doing something in computers and pride themselves on their shuckeling (swaying) during prayer.
Angela Himsel: Nosh, Davin, Kvell, or Eat, Pray, Love, the Upper West Side Way 2010
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"My entire life screams that I have a Jewish neshama," he explained, using the Hebrew word for soul.
Gangsta rapper takes a Shyne to Judaism Sean Michaels 2010
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I was deeply humbled: Itamar's draining, devastating work was ultimately about an Israeli Jew who cared deeply about Muslim children, his neshama, his niyyat, a lone green shoot of fragile hope sprouting forth from lakes of blood.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play 2010
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Avi West provided the neshama of ongoing Jewish sources and signposts of “Values in Conflict”.
In Case You Missed It: What Makes An Army Jewish? A Dialogue. « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
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While a Jewish proverb calls the convert a yiddishe neshama in a goyishe bod—a Jewish soul in gentile flesh—Wyschogrod holds that the convert becomes carnally Jewish, as if born to a Jewish mother.
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The next freedom is the world of briyah, the soul-level of neshama: freedom to think.
Integral Judaism: David Ingber William Harryman 2007
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