Tanya Lesson 7: The Divine Consciousness of the Jew

So here goes with the questions on Rabbi Y.Y .Jacobson's shiur:

 

YJ: Bereishit Hashem formed ADAM (man) and "blew into his nostril", and he became a human being. " you blew it into me" " My God - the soul you have blown it into me" . The neshoma of a human being came from Hashem .

 

I am very comfortable with all the above. I only see discussion of the "Neshoma" in the singular, and I see "UNIVERSALITY OF MAN" (ADAM), in these words. In these quotes and references YJ makes no distinction AT ALL. 

 

YYJ has sold us the conceptual framework for a soul ( singular) , so it resides in our sub-coscious, and then he leaves the substantive issue.

 

YYJ: "He who blows, blows from within him". - From his inwardness and innermost being (Vitachty). Blowing is tiring, and if you were doing it, you could not keep going. It is actually used metaphorically, it is not the physical - it is a metaphor for the connecting of the soul. - 

 

YJY: Mishnah - "World was created through 10 utterances" this refers to the external. "Vayepach - the the internal of the Divine . Hashem's blow did NOT create the soul. It is the actual blow of Hashem that is imparted at that moment of creation. THIS IS THE "INTERNAL " ASPECT

 

Now, again, whatever he as said above, I am very comfortable with. Everything as it is reported has UNIVERSAL APPLICABILITY, and there is no hint of exclusion, distinction or any such concept. 

 

What YYJ is doing is providing a number of sub conscious finger prints for us to hold in short term memory, and it appears to link the dots. ALL GOOD

 

THEN THE SOPHISTRY: YJ: "this "INTERNAL ASPECT is the SOUL OF THE JEW. that is the nub of the entire drosha, and it is subtly interwoven amongst all the signposts previously laid on the pathway, but is made pure as an unsupported statement, You could call it an assumption, or you might describe it as an assumption. There is no reference to "bereishit", or any of the books of the torah. Those original UNIVERSAL REFERENCE POINTS are in place in our sub- conscious, and we are supposed to just connect the two as a continuum??

 

Now YJ moves very lightly to his substantiation and refer to a message from the Tanya, " Hashems Reality" " a divine reality" " a devine soul","the heart of the soul" "not a mundane reality" . Again, nothing objectionable in these statements. but chronologically, what YJ does not want us to realize is that we have leap frogged for circa 1500 BCE ( when the Torah was given in Sinai), to the Alter Rabbi, in about 1800 CE, a slight gap of about 3,500 years.

 

I do not want to make any judgements on the Alte Rebbe, who is considered by many to be a Tzadik, BUT, these remain the words of a human being.

 

YYJ Quotes the Tanya " Every single JEW contains this aspect!" ( see above the internal aspect is the soul of the Jew). but is made pure as an unsupported statement, You could call it an assumption, or you might describe it as an opinion. There is no reference to "bereishit", or any of the books of the Torah. Those original UNIVERSAL REFERENCE POINTS are in place in our sub- conscious, and we are supposed to just connect the two as a continuum?? 

 

The bottom line what is the original source for saying that the soul of a Jew is different to that of the nations of the world!