Rabbi Steinsaltz opens by discussing the definition of the biblical word "nefesh." He then elaborates on the symbiotic coexistence between the soul and body, drawing on sources from the Torah and Midrash. He closes by presenting a Talmudic parable that attempts to analogize the teamwork of a blind and lame man to the powerful combination of the soul and body.
The text Genesis 2:7. Noticing " that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person." Or "Joshua 11:11: They went striking every soul [Hebrew, ne′phesh] that was in it with the edge of the sword. (The soul is here shown to be something that can be touched by the sword, so these souls could not have been spirits.)"
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