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The spiritual garments of the soul - what are they? how we get them? why we need them?

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Since every person has a soul it is a wonder that our society spends so little time in trying to understand something about its make-up. A human being needs clothing for the obvious two reasons of modesty and warmth. everything in the physical realm is a result and a reflection of that which exists in the spiritual realm. The fact that a person needs clothing is a reflection of a spiritual need of the soul. Because the soul has clothing, the body needs clothing. An animal has a life force without clothing and therefore the animal does not need clothing. In a human being the clothing of the soul takes three separate levels: thought, speech and action — each more remote than the one before