Physicality and Spirituality

What is a soul? I asked a couple of angels, a psychiatrist, a physicist and a guru, and this is what they told me...

Whatever for does Jacob need "the dew of heaven and the fat of the land," anyway?

We can sit and gaze at it for hours. What is it about a burning flame that captures our imagination?

A "dispassionate materialist"? Clearly a fraud

You see the way things are, and the way they ought to be. That's why human beings enjoy a higher stress level than cows, for example

The physical realm as the "shadow" of the spiritual; the mitzvot as physical "symbols" that manipulate spiritual realities; matter as thye most compact form of energy; prayer as the language of the soul and the minyan as the "critical mass" that ...

We are physical beings, and the laws of physics (at least as they stand now) dictate that time runs in one direction only. Yet for some reason, we just won't let go. We continue to feel responsible for what was, continue to regard our past as something ...

"Look," he tried. The poor angel was almost hysterical. "Our job was software. How were we supposed to know that the hardware was to be made from mud? We pleaded with The Engineer to find a more fitting encasement for such an ultimate being than this ...

If the body is but a temporary and deficient container for the soul, why recompose and revive it?

Which is loftier--spirit or matter? the soul or the body? The teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, founder of Chabad chassidism, extol the first over the second, and then second over the first, offering a unique and life-altering vision of reality