Originally posted by DaShi
Protestants allow their pets and other animals to have souls, yet cruelly slaughter them anyway.
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Protestants allow their pets and other animals to have souls, yet cruelly slaughter them anyway.
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heres one view
"When a person is born his Nefesh enters him. If he is adequately rectified through his actions, his Ruach will enter him at the end of his thirteenth year when he becomes a "complete person." His Neshamah will enter him only when he completes his twentieth year, as it says in the Zohar (Mishpatim 94b). (Sha'ar HaGilgulim, Ch. 2)
As it is well known, there are five levels of soul (from top to bottom): Yechidah, Chiyah, Neshamah, Ruach, and Nefesh. They correspond to the Ten Sefiros, and therefore, like the Ten Sefiros they act as filters for the light of G-d to reach us without destroying us physically. It is the level of Nefesh that acts as the spiritual interface between the spiritual and the physical, as the posuk indicates:
For the Nefesh of the flesh is in the blood . . . (Vayikra 17:11)
Often referred to as the animal soul, the Nefesh is the minimal amount of spiritual energy necessary to keep a body alive and functioning on auto-pilot. The extent to which man has perpetrated evil and acted in an unG-dly manner shows just how little an impact the Nefesh can have on a person's spiritual consciousness. A baby emerges into the world accomplishing very little other than just trying to stay alive.
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this is kabbalist, and doesnt sound quite like I recall from other sources.
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