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P. 223. Any Jewish home built on the guf (body) and not the neshama (soul) is not really a Jewish home. Ba'alei teshuvah (newly religious people) sometimes tend to lean too much toward the ruchani (spiritual). The neshama should be supervising the guf. The true path is make Torah, emunah (faith) and the ruchani as the center while the gashmi (physical) is supposed to be secondary, but we are still supposed to be human, not angels. Hashem wants us to be in the physical world. Tznius (modesty) involves looking physically nice within the boundaries of halacha. The essence of a Jew is a neshama enclothed in a guf.