{"id":12907,"date":"2025-12-20T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12907"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:58:32","slug":"and-you-shall-keep-your-souls","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-you-shall-keep-your-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"94. And You Shall Keep Your Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard in 1945<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the verse, \u201cAnd you shall keep your souls,\u201d the keeping refers mainly to the spiritual soul. However, one keeps the corporeal soul even without commandments from the Torah. This is because the rule is that a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>[commandment] is primarily evident, meaning it is evident that he does what he does for the purpose of a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;when he would not do it were it not for a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>. Rather, the reason he does it is because of a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, with a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;that he performs, if he would do it even if it were not a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>, he needs special care, to find a place where he can say that he does this only because of a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>. Then the light of the&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;can shine on the act of the&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;that he performs. This is called \u201cmaking a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;[vessel] with the&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>,\u201d in which the upper light can be. 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