<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ira Tick asked: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">Anyone have any thoughts about the unity<br>of the soul? Parallels to the unity of G-d?"</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">I have always taught that the Shechina to the Beis Hamikdash</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">was the same as the soul is to the body. From there, volumes</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">could be written.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">But just a quick thought... Because of the sinas chinam of the Jews,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">did the Shechina leave the B"H, and THAT was the really tragedy.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">The B"H then died (so to speak). When we behave with disregard to</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">all that is holy, etc., then our neshama leaves the body (either literally</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">or symbolically). Elul is the neshama to the other months, and we have</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">a chance to save the neshama.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">Ketiva v'chatima tova.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div></div></body></html>