ABSTRACT
In Rabbinic phrase, the human soul is a tiny lamp kindled from the Divine torch. The doctrine of the immortality of the Soul is an integral part of the Jewish creed. The man is a dual being, compounded of heavenly and earthly elements, of body and soul. The Bible repeatedly uses the word soul; but nowhere does it say that it is immortal. And yet the idea of its immortality must have been present in the minds of some at least of the Biblical writers. The aspiration after goodness foreshadows a larger life in which to realise it. Every human being recognises in virtue the one desirable thing. The recognition and the desire may be feeble and intermittent; they may have a thousand different shades of intensity in a thousand different persons.
