How the Hebrew Bible Uses Ruach, Nefesh, and N'shamah

[@tomashernandez5640]

Thank you. I only knew a couple of meanings or uses of the three words in the Bible. I saved this teaching.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

You're welcome, I'm glad it was helpful! :)

[@sac7404]

Reminds me of the greek word Pneuma, which can mean Breath, even air, and also has this spiritual aspect to it, meaning Soul or Spirit

[@davidpeightal4918]

That was a lot of work for you. Thank you!!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

You're very welcome! :)

[@VictorVictory-te2ij]

Simply superb -- so very helpful! God bless you!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thank you very much! :)

[@carlaraimer718]

Thank you Mathew.. these are words a Biblical Hebrew student as myself really appreciates knowing difference on

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

You're welcome, I'm glad this was helpful for you! :)

[@Maurice-Navel]

Ruach occurs 10 times in the well-known Valley of the Dry Bones passage (Ezekiel 37), but English translations use all of the possible choices, (spirit, wind, breath) so that the reader does not realize that Ruach is the center of the entire passage.

[@tiosurcgib]

Always interesting and very thorough. Thank you.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thanks for the kind comment! :)

[@CalNeva]

Appreciate your channel! Easy learning

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

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[@Vikram714-o1n]

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[@AshaRani-ih3vr]

Appreciate all teaching sir♥️🙏🏻

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

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[@Anila777christ]

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[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

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[@mihailgae-draghici4864]

An excellent presentation. Thank you!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

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[@SamNayak-j5u]

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[@cscf1840]

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[@libertyc8688]

Very informative, Today raba.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

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[@jaredmacabale7285]

Nice! Thank you brother

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

@@jaredmacabale7285 Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@Simi..10sr]

Very nice

[@SDsc0rch]

interesting

[@omeritzics]

Great video :)

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thanks! :)

[@YeshuaIsTheTruth]

Do not eat the blood for there is nefesh in the blood. This video is great! Thank you!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thank you! :)

[@tnayenga77]

Beautiful

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thank you! :)

[@famservingyah765]

Kol HaNeshama - is this the same as N'shamah? I just remembered I recognized this word from a song Jeremy Gimpel sings, but would love help knowing exactly what these words mean!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

I think that may be Psalm 150:6: let all breath (kol han'shamah) praise the LORD.

[@ericconyers8972]

There is an article attached to N'shamah as a prefix. "Ha" is the article. It usually means " the."

[@clayrush1413]

I see you dropping that casual dragon reference at 6:58 🔥🐲

[@xiomseg]

👍 thanks!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

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[@ThePropriate]

Excellent!

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thank you so much! :)

[@VoiceofTruth-iv8pq]

An excellent short video. The explanation of nefesh is to be commended. it well illustrates how the Hebrew understanding of nefesh is completely different from the Greek understanding. Man is a soul, He does not possess a soul. The soul is mortal (Ezek 19:4) What a shame 'Christianity' lost its Hebrew roots and was overtaken by platonism.

[@vm1552]

Questions: what meaning do you give "ruach" in Psalm 146:4? Is it "breath"? Can it be understood as saying simply "When a person exhales (dies), he goes back to the dust"? My question has to do with the notion many have that we have an invisible "spirit" that survives after death. However, my understanding is that in the Torah, or in the Tanach itself, there is no support of that being taught.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

@@vm1552 The wording itself is ambiguous in that verse. I would recommend comparing it with Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, which may suggest some kind of actual spirit.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

And if you'd like to look at the entire usage of ruach in the Bible, here's a link: www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h7307/kjv/wlc/0-1/ I myself am not an expert on how the Biblical culture viewed the inner beings called ruach and nefesh, but I'm sure there's some interesting research out there. :)

[@thambone30]

Psalm 146:3, 4 says that when man’s “spirit [form of ruʹach] goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” The spirit, or life-force, that was active in man’s body cells does not retain any of the characteristics of those cells, such as the brain cells and their part in the thinking process. If the spirit, or life-force (ruʹach; pneuʹma), were not impersonal, then it would mean that the children of certain women who were resurrected by the prophets Elijah and Elisha were actually in conscious existence somewhere in the period during which they were dead. So, too, with Lazarus, who was resurrected some four days after his death. (1Ki 17:17-23; 2Ki 4:32-37; Joh 11:38-44) If such had been the case, it is reasonable that they would have remembered such conscious existence during that period and upon being resurrected would have described it, told about it. There is nothing to indicate that any of them did so. Hence, the personality of the dead individual is not perpetuated in the life-force, or spirit, that stops functioning in the deceased person’s body cells.

[@vm1552]

@thambone30 Amen!

[@vm1552]

@@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew , Thanks Matthew.

[@Faithdude95]

Toda Raba!!!

[@surethabadenhorst]

This is wonderful thanks for sharing ❤ I'd love to see a look at the Melchizedek (Melek Zedek) if you haven't done so already. I always wondered why they translated Melchizedek as a name rather than King of Righteousness

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Thanks for the suggestion! :)

[@danielgilleland8611]

Is there a relationship between the words nefesh and nephilim?

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

Both words have a nun and a peh, but that's as far as the similarities go. N'filim means 'fallen ones', likely referring to great fallen heroes of battles of old.

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[@CuriousCattery]

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[@davidpeightal4918]

@@CuriousCattery no. They all have problems. You can learn things from any of them, but can’t relax and fully trust any of them. If there is a certain topic you are wanting to study, mention it. There will be teachers who handle each topic well. But none who handle all topics well. And this field of study has shown to be a magnet for narcissists. Anyone can start a channel. They find power over people in superior knowledge of the Bible. And there is absolutely NO ACCOUNTABILITY ANYWHERE. Buyer beware.

[@omeritzics]

Maybe try Chabad videos? R' Yosef Yitzhak Jacobson has good teachings too There are many ethical rabbis you can rely on their teachings

[@CuriousCattery]

@@omeritzics thank you very much 🙏 I tried the Rabbi but there were theological problems. He mentioned reincarnation, Kabbalah, and oneness.

[@adamodeo9320]

must look at three from the cabalistic point - neshama high soul is connected through Neshima - breath which enters the lungs where Ruch - spirit is to supply oxygen to the nefesh - the lower self -where the liver is.

[@lostgurl1379]

You omitted the meaning of neohesh as the soul of an animal as in Noah collecting the animals to go into the arc.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

I did mention the meaning of 'breathing thing', which does account for animals, though I didn't explicitly mention them.

[@Nirmala_Rani]

Thodha i learn from hebrew Bible

[@jackhydrazine1376]

The levels of soul may be described as five ascending levels of awareness of, and communion with, G‑d. They are called (in ascending order) Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya and Yechida. Nefesh, the lowest level of consciousness, is awareness of the physical body and the physical world, the world of Asiya - the world of Action. Ruach is the next level of soul - a higher plane of consciousness than the rank of Nefesh. The world (i.e. level of revelation of G‑dliness) corresponding to Ruach is the world of Yetzira. Neshama - The primary activity of the Neshama is in the conceptual grasp of the intellect, as the verse states, "and the soul (nishmat) from the Almighty gives them understanding" (Job 32:8). The level of Neshama contemplates the manifestation of Divine energy in the world of Beriya. Just as in the world of Beriya, the primary sefira is bina, so too in the soul - the primary activity is understanding. Neshama analyzes underlying principles abstracted from the categories of thought imposed upon them by the human mind and human experience. It seeks to pierce through to the essential rather than the ephemeral. Chaya - The aspect of the soul called Chaya gazes upon the Divine energy of the world of Atzilut. Whereas the primary activity of the level of Neshama is to use intellectual comprehension in order to come to communion with G‑d as the Creator of the worlds, the level of Chaya communes with G‑d as He transcends the worlds. Yechida corresponds to the level of soul called Adam Kadmon. Just as the sublime, pure and transcendent world of Adam Kadmon, cleaves to and reflects the original Infinite Light (Ohr Ein Sof), so too does the level of yechida.

[@thambone30]

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[@Tzipporah-rr5in]

“Ru’achs”? Lo. Ru’achot. Please say it correctly.

[@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew]

The plural is actually רוּחוֹת (ruchot), the 'a' drops out because of pronunciation reasons. Because of that I decided to just say 'ruachs' to avoid confusion.

[@Tzipporah-rr5in]

@@LearnTheLingo_Hebrew Some native speakers of Ivrit actually do pronounce a short “ah” in Ru’achot. That being said, hearing “Ruachs”, instead of the expected “ote” ending, is like tin to the ear. Otherwise, I enjoy your videos very much. Thank you for all of your excellent content! 🕊✡️🇮🇱

[@byronumphress3805]

John 14:26, 14:6, 3:3-5, repent, Revelation 2:17, I received a white stone, it just mysteriously appeared in my KJV bible, Proverbs 9:10 Matthew 10:28 Revelation 3:10 Shalom

[@cahayaterang8579]

N'shamah + ruach + nefesh = breath + oxygen + life + spirit + soul Without oxygen there is no life. Deuteronomy 5:26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived? Life belongs to God. Genesis 6:3 So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

[@free_society_of_upright_in_YaH]

If you are teaching Hebrew words, why in Genesis 2:7 do you use LORD? It is a substitution for YHVH making LORD a lie. Please stick with the truth and only Truth. Same applies with God. The Hebrew word 'Elohiym' means powerful authority not God/Gad which mean troop H1410.

[@SDsc0rch]

...sigh...

[@famservingyah765]

He did a video recently on LORD. Many teach in HR that it's Ba'al, but his video showed there are other meanings, such as master or husband.

[@free_society_of_upright_in_YaH]

@@famservingyah765 Yes, I am fully aware of that. My point is that that terminology is not a name, nor is it the Father's real proper name which is what is found in the Hebrew Scriptures. It is a cover up ... a lie.

[@famservingyah765]

@@free_society_of_upright_in_YaH Gotcha. For me, I don't know that any of us can pronounce Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey correctly, so maybe it's a show of respect not to say the Name incorrectly. I know I find myself saying "The Father" or something like that... especially when you don't know your audience. I find some sacred namers very off putting and far from being salt/ light. Some even say "Yah" is of pagan origin... so... I get where you are coming from, but also respect his using a translation most of society uses as that is what they are familiar with - still with a heart for our Creator. :)

[@omeritzics]

​@@free_society_of_upright_in_YaHIt is unusual to recite God's real name due to the holiness of him and his name.