Chesed Shel Avraham - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

balatanya writes that we have two souls a nephisha bahamas an animal soul and a nephew shallow kiss a godly soul what's the difference between the nephesha bahamas and the nephilucus is terrified of death because it's the soul that animates our body it knows that ultimately it will die and so the posture of the nephesh bahamas is one of self-preservation imagine a person who's drowning they have no opportunity to think about anything else other than i have to survive but we are also created with an ephesian locus a godly soul the godly soul is infinite the godly soul does not leave us even after we've died because the godly soul is of god it is life itself and so the posture of the godly soul is one of ghasset one of giving not of self-preservation and selfishness but how can i impact the world how can i do for another we are positioned between these two souls who are we well of course in our essence we are our godly soul but if we act in accordance with our nephesha bahamas that becomes the definition of our lives and so we're positioned between these two souls to choose will we act like a human self-preservation oriented looking for how i can better myself or will i look out to the world and think to myself what can i do for another to be about means to act like a kadash baruch himself who created the world from it's our responsibility our obligation to tap into our godly soul to behave like and to give to another [Music]