275 - Michael Legaspi - Subjectivity and the Psalms
The Symbolic World
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The Meaning of the Hebrew Word Nephesh in the Psalms
The word soul comes up a lot in the Psalms. It can refer to your throat or your neck, but it also refers to something that's loyal to God and is only kind of happy when in contact with him. And so you have this sort of paradox where the part of you that you consider to be like most interior, your soul is actually only at rest,. Only fulfilled when it goes beyond the boundary of the self to God.
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