0187 - The Neshama is a Creation

00:01 I knew a younger man who wasn't a Lubavitcher. He was a Hasidisher. I think he was a Viznitzer Hasid who used to live in Crown Heights. He used to dreizach with the Lubavitcher yungerleit. He had a shaychas to Lubavitch, et cetera, et cetera. So once, while, while I was sitting in the kollel, he comes running in and he says, "I just got an answer from the Rebbe, shows that I'm right." Concerning what inyan? So he says he learned Chassidus with a Lubavitcher yungerman, and the discussion came up whether the neshamah is a nivra or not, whether the neshamah is considered a creation, a nivra, or it's not. And he says, "I said that the neshamah is a nivra. Sure, the neshamah was created by Hashem. And the yungerman, the Lubavitcher yungerman told me no, neshamah is a chelek of the Aibishter. It's not a nivra. So we got into an argument, and I said, 'I'm gonna write to the Rebbe to ask the Rebbe.'" And he says, "I wrote to the Rebbe the name of the yungerman and that what we were learning and the discussion we had." And he even said that he wrote to the Rebbe that, "I answered the yungerman, 'Hey, shayta, you're a fool to say that neshamah is not a nivra, neshamah is a chelek of the Aibishter. It's definitely a nivra.'" And he asked the Rebbe who's right. So he said to me that this is the lashon that the Rebbe answered him. "Shehaneshama hi nivra ein ma le'daber

01:12 sheharei omrim bechol yom ata borosa." That the neshamah is a nivra, there's nothing to talk about. For sure the neshamah is a nivra because every day we say, "Ata borosa," You created it. So we see that the neshamah is a nivra. So he says, "You see? I'm right. The neshamah is a nivra. It's not chelek of Hashem." So we explained to him that it's not a raaya that he's right because it says in Chassidus that the neshamah is considered a, a lekus she'nasah nivra. The neshamah is a chelek eloka me'al mamash, became a nivra, which means while it became a nivra, it's still a chelek eloka me'al mamash. Unlike velt, which is begilui not a lekus anymore, just nivra. Not like Torah, which is even the way it's lamata, it's still a lekus. It didn't transform into a nivra. The gashmius of the Torah, that the Torah talks about gashmius, they could think is only a levush to Torah, to the way the Torah is lamalah. Torah lamata kmisha lamalah. But neshamah is a lekus, still a lekus, kmisha nasah nivra, whatever the beer is. But that's what it says in Chassidus when it comes to neshamah. But the lashon of the Rebbe's answer, the way he said it was that the Rebbe wrote, "Shehaneshama hi nivra ein ma le'daber sheharei omrim bechol yom ata borosa."