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Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Tiferes Yisroel

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p 59. With an animal, what you see is what you get; there is no potential to be activated. Is it possible to leave this world without having attained our shleimus (perfection)? Who we really are can be seen by where we really want to be. When we have a good thought to do a mitzvah, we receive credit as if we had actually done it. The Arizal tells us that the neshama (soul) leaves us right before we do an aveira (sin). A heretic is simply opting out of the game. Each mitzvah has a physical and a spiritual component. Being an oneis (under duress) to do an aveira makes us liable for the body's action, but not for the neshama.