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Recently learned…
Every day is another piece of our neshama leaving us. We have as many days as pieces of neshama to live, not a piece/day more or less, despite how we use our days.
At the end of one’s life, one gets stronger right before death because all of those days, pieces of neshamot, come close to the person right before he or she passes.
At night, when we do our chashbon hanefesh, we can do teshuvah on that day’s piece of neshama, even when during the day we may have failed to actualize its potential.
Sleep is 1/60th of death. We actually let go of the previous day’s neshama and have a new and independent piece of neshama to start with every morning.
….The rabbi said that we don’t get the neshama until Bar Mitzvah (clearly this shiur was tailored towards men/boys/male bodies, so I am uncertain if the girls/women/female bodies get their neshamot during their Bat Mitzvot, which is a relatively new thing, or whatever it is)… The rabbi said that we do have our neshama before Bar Mitzvah (assuming one is a male), but it’s still in the womb, per se.
Any thoughts, counter-points, additions?
Thank you!
Concepts about the Neshama are way beyond my undestanding, but there is one point I would like to make- halacha has always said that a girl is obligated to do mitzvos (ie become a Bas Mitzva) at 12, just as a boy becomes a Bar mitzva on his 13th birthday. That is not a “relatively new thing.” The party, whether for a boy or girl, is just to show that we are happy about that and value the new status, and how we celebrate it changes with the time/place/community.
I thought it was that when someone becomes bar/bat mitzvah they get the Yetzer Tov, not the neshama. I’m pretty sure the Neshama comes at birth, that’s how we function.
“I thought it was that when someone becomes bar/bat mitzvah they get the Yetzer Tov, not the neshama. I’m pretty sure the Neshama comes at birth, that’s how we function.”
Futurepotus, I think that it is correct.
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