Understanding is power!
First we have to be find what a soul is if it exist. If you believe that man came from monkeys or apes (you may stop reading now), it would be almost impossible to convey my ideas with someone that believes apes our ancestors of men. Because you have to believe there is no creator like the one in genesis the first book of the Torah. However if you believe man was created by an infinite creator, that created man and his image (which also needs to be explained).
Bereshit (Genesis) – Chapter 1
27And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (male and female He created them: Yet further (2:21) Scripture states: “And He took one of his ribs, etc.” The Midrash Aggadah (Gen. Rabbah 8:1, Ber. 61a, Eruvin 18a) explains that He originally created him with two faces, and afterwards, He divided him. The simple meaning of the verse is that here Scripture informs you that they were both created on the sixth [day], but it does not explain to you how they were created, and it explains [that] to you elsewhere. — [from Baraitha of the Thirty Two Methods , Method 13])
Bereshit (Genesis) – Chapter 2
7And the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living soul. (formed: [וַיִּיצֶר, with two “yuds,” hints at] two creations, a creation for this world and a creation for the [time of the] resurrection of the dead)
(and He breathed into his nostrils: He made him of earthly matter and of heavenly matter: the body of earthly matter the soul of heavenly matter.)( a living soul: Cattle and beasts were also called living souls, but this one of man is the most alive of them all, because he was additionally given intelligence and speech.)
So the basic question is, did we evolve from apes or were recreated by creator? According to a Jewish belief when a man and a woman created child on the 40th day after conception a soul was placed inside the child in the womb. If a woman should miscarry on the 39th day the child would not be buried, however after the 40th day a funeral must accompany the miscarriage. (Which may explain the Jewish Point of view, that a child should not be aborted after day 40)? This does not mean it is condoned, just permissible. An individual May also have to realize that they’re terminating something that has the potential to become human. Understand this is not all Jews, nor all the Jewish sages (please keep in mind I am not a Jew).
So if you are human (a descendant of Adam), a soul was placed inside of you 40 days after conception (and you were taught the entire Torah before you were born). Most of you like me came into this world kicking and screaming (maybe with the idea what the heck happened?). Now for the next 10 years the soul inside of you that is connected to the other world has to learn how to live in the physical world. Depending on your parents their status, influence, attitude, and 100 other reasons you grow up, in a world that is disconnected from the other world. This is the two parts of man body and soul, united in this physical world until the body dies.
Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) – Chapter 12
7And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit (?) returns to God, Who gave it.
Death of the soul is the question, so how does a soul die? If the fact that the soul continues into the next world is true after the physical body is gone. Now if I may continue to explain, in my humble opinion (IMHO). The soul in this world suffers because of the free will that the creator gave us and others. The abuse that people suffer at the hands of others: be it physical, mental, (the two parts of the body) or spiritual (the soul). May have the effect not understanding the way of G-d, an individual may doubt the existence of a loving creator (one of the attributes of the creator). If I’m correct (which doesn’t happen often) because the soul and the creator are connected in a exclusive and unimaginable way, the flame of the soul deteriorate as your faith in a infinite creator deteriorates.
