{"id":42,"date":"2010-02-28T21:37:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theneshamaanditsparts.wordpress.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-02-28T21:37:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:37:53","slug":"irradiating-outward-perched-or-free-as-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/2010\/02\/28\/irradiating-outward-perched-or-free-as-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Irradiating Outward, Perched, or Free as a Bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that while the <em>Nephesh<\/em> is fixed in the heart, it spreads outward from there to the rest of the organs, and that it settles in the body\u2019s center from where it irradiates outward to the rest of the body much the way the sun situates itself in the center of the sky. In fact, the body is said to be perched in the <em>Nephesh<\/em>, the <em>Nephesh<\/em> is perched in the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is perched in G-d\u2019s presence where everything abides (<em>Zohar Chadash<\/em>, <em>Breishit<\/em> 6d). But see <em>Tanya<\/em> Ch. 9 which differentiates between the \u201canimal\u201d <em>Nephesh<\/em> which is centered in the left chamber of the heart and the Divine <em>Nephesh <\/em>which is centered in the brain from where it irradiates outward to the rest of the body as well as the right side of the heart.<\/p>\n<p>R\u2019 Chaim Voloshin depicts the <em>Nephesh<\/em> as being expressed (and centered) in our actions, the <em>Ruach<\/em> in our speech, and the <em>Neshama<\/em> in our thoughts (<em>Nephesh<\/em> <em>HaChaim<\/em> 1:14, 16).<\/p>\n<p>Others portray the <em>Neshama<\/em> as less than rooted in the body, and as something of a free agent if you will, given that it soars upwards out of the body when we sleep (Zohar 1, p. 53a, 121b; Zohar 2, p. 195b; Zohar 3, p. 25a, etc.; also see <em>Ta\u2019anit<\/em> 11a) after which it returns to us through the nostrils in the morning and doesn\u2019t return to the body proper until we pray in the morning (<em>Zohar Chadash<\/em>, Ruth, 90d), or to our belly once we say <em>Viddui<\/em> (the morning confession) (Zohar 1, p. 98a; also see <em>Berachot<\/em> 8a).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that while the Nephesh is fixed in the heart, it spreads outward from there to the rest of the organs, and that it settles in the body\u2019s center from where it irradiates outward to the rest of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/2010\/02\/28\/irradiating-outward-perched-or-free-as-a-bird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iqmI-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/neshamah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}