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The following is from Rav Shimon Schwab's sefer Selected Speeches.</div>
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The relationship between Torah and derech eretz is very similar to
<div>that which exists between the guf and the neshamah, the body and the</div>
soul. The Torah is the soul, without which we cannot live. But it pleased</div>
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Hashem to place the soul into our body. Like a lamp, the soul's light is to
<div>penetrate all the innermost chambers of the body. . Our body has to be</div>
<div> fed and groomed and clothed because most of our mitzvos are carried <br>
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<div>out by it. Yet the body is temporary; it came from the dust and goes back</div>
<div> to the dust. While the body houses the neshamah it acts out the derech <br>
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<div>eretz of human behavior; and when the neshamah leaves it, the body <br>
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<div>disintegrates. The neshamah is the essential man and lives forever.</div>
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Selected Speeches, page 243</div>
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Yitzchok Levine<br>
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