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You’ve Misread “Soul”: Meet Nephesh
Scythian Jo-hn
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Short and sweet.
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Ever heard a word that does the job of ten?
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Meet nefesh, the Hebrew word that means your whole living self.
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Not just spirit, all of you.
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Nefesh.
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It's often translated as soul, but that's tidy and incomplete.
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In Hebrew it means the whole living being.
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Breath life person self-appetite emotion.
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It's the physical body and the inner life rolled into one word.
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The Bible uses nefesh for people and animals alike.
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So it's not a ghostly afterlife idea, it's living, breathing existence.
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Want hunger?
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That's nefesh.
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Want heartbreak?
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Also nefesh.
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It reminds us that identity isn't split between a body and a separate spirit.
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Drives feelings, breath make us who we are.
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So next time someone says soul, try nefesh on for size.
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Whole messy alive.
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That small word opens onto a big view of what it means to be alive.
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