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The Ego and the Soul

The Ego and the Soul

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself." - Galileo Jewish tradition teaches that we were created as sparks of God, "in the image of God," body and soul. God put his image on earth, in the form of human beings. One way to identify with the concept of the “image of God” is through a simple metaphor. Let us find out more about the ego and the soul in this post. Visualize a movie projector and a screen. When turned on, the light projects brightly onto the
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Mitzvot and Spirituality

Mitzvot and Spirituality

Let's take a second and analyze the first humans, Adam and Eve, when they were in the Garden of Eden. Their bodies were a mirror of their souls. Indeed, there was no need to cover up such a pure innocent expression of spirituality — God's image illuminating a human being. However, once evil was assimilated into man, the body came to represent something adversarial to the soul. Looking at the body could now distract the observer from focusing on his or her internal being and instead focus exclus
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 4 - THE FIRST HUMAN BIRTH

Chapter 4 - THE FIRST HUMAN BIRTH

Continued from Chapter 3 (Genesis 4:1) Christians seek proof-texts of their claim that Jesus was born in a supernatural way. As a result, they interpret, “I have acquired a male with [the help of] the Lord” (Genesis 4:1) to mean that Eve thought she had conceived supernaturally, with God as the father of her child, and had given birth to the Messiah. Christians claim this to be a forerunner of what happened to Mary. They claim prophetic power for Eve because, in accordance with Christian beli
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz