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Do converts represent a "farblondzshet" neshama?

Sometimes the angel makes a mistake and puts a Jewish soul in a non-Jewish mother, and sometimes the inverse. … The Jewish soul goes on to become a convert to Judaism, and the non-Jewish soul goes on to convert out of the Jewish religion. …
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What is the chassidic version of ruach?

However, in the animal soul, Nefesh (the animation of basic life functions) is more predominant, and in the G-dly soul, Neshama (the intellectual aspects of the soul) is. …
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What's "chelek Eloak mimaal"?

That latter explanation is more direct and to the point: The soul is G-dly, a part of G-d's Name. … also characterize Havayah, the Four-Letter Name of G‑d, and thus indicate that the soul is indeed a part of that Name? …
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Where does the Zohar hold the nefesh resides?

As for the association with the verse כי הדם הוא הנפש, see Eitz Chaim Shaar 39: דם שהוא הנפש הנקרא דם כמ"ש כי הדם הוא הנפש ושיעורו הוא רביעית The blood which is the soul, which is called blood, as it … In the תניא מבואר mentioned above it quotes the Lubavitcher Rebbe as making the association that the blood in the heart is the Reviis Dam that the soul depends on. …
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