The human mind and mind power. The combination that characterizes and animates only human beings. This is the essence of neshama and ruach

Human mind and mind power, neshama and ruach.

The Human mind and mind power are characterized by the Biblical Hebrew words neshama and ruach.

(Origin of Humankind, chapter 2.22)

The Explanation is elaborating the most important aspect of the entire universe. The epitome of the creation in Genesis 2:7. Not just the creation of the first human being. But, in particular, what differentiates a human from any other life on Earth and indeed, the rest of the physical universe. I can affirm this because this is the specific description of the father of all humanity (Gen. 5:1).

The particularity that characterizes humans, and only humans in the material realm, in neshama that we discussed last week. I realize that with weekly posts, spread over months, it is not easy to retain the flow of information regarding the creation of Adam and what made him and makes Eve and all their descendants unique in God’s eyes and unique amongst living beings. After finishing this section I will publish a book combining all this information which should make it easier to read and follow. That said, it is essential to read and understand what makes each of us human, the neshama. This is fundamental knowledge. Get that initial piece of the human puzzle wrong and the entire rest of the human picture will be distorted. And indeed, in the realm of psychology and the humanities, confusion reigns as to what the human mind really is.


The Explanation develops this by elaborating what characterizes the human mind. They are the singularities of humankind: human naturespace-time management, creativityimaginationlearningmaking choicesgrowthchallenges, and rulership.

I italicized Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge for a reason. Generating new knowledge is a lifelong, ongoing, never-ending experience that only characterizes human beings and their human mind. Animals do not accumulate knowledge. Even computers only manipulate knowledge into new patterns and spit out new results but this is not new knowledge per se, it is simply old knowledge in a new format.

The ruach


Job 32:8 But there is a spirit (ruach – 7307) in man: and the inspiration (neshama) of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Job 34:14 If he [God] set his heart upon man, if he gather to himself his spirit (ruach – 7307) and his breath (neshama);

This last verse is capital in understanding these two spiritual elements that have animated every human mind of every deceased human being and all living human beings. Upon death, God gathers the neshama and the ruach and together they represent the imprint, the memory, the life, every recorded instant of each human being. I don’t want to elaborate here but it is the neshama and ruach at the moment of resurrection, and only at that moment, that confer the specific personalization on the resurrected being. After Christ was resurrected He obviously was a Spirit but the Apostles and others who knew Him recognized His personality and character.

It is these two interlaced God-given spiritual components, neshama and ruach, that interconnect and impart the intellect to each human being. Together they compose the mind and mind-power. together they feed the brain, as a transducer translating the spiritual information into physical quantum energy packages that messenger all the functions of the body which displays our emotions and actions.

If I may put it this way. The ruach motorizes the neshama. The ruach is the imaginative, creative, animate power or force that solely endows human beings. The neshama is like having an entire electrical circuit for city housing, shops, factories, public buildings, street lighting, hospitals… It’s a unique framework and circuit (neshama). But, without electricity (ruach) it’s useless. Likewise, electricity without the framework is useless. The circuit and electricity work together as a twosome. The neshama and the ruach work together as a twosome. A lamp is what brings the circuit and the electricity together. The analogy breaks down when it comes to the brain because the neshama and ruach are spiritual entities. But, it is in the brain where the physical activity takes place. The light is the visible result of the circuit and electricity. Likewise kicking a football, solving a math equation or driving a car are the results of the brain activity. The brain messaging the related parts of the body. But the impetus to kick, solve and drive come from the neshama and ruach.




We’ve seen this Strong’s definition on numerous occasions for different reasons. Ruach is the basis for understanding the human mind. Notice that the King James’ translators rendered ruach with mind. This mind is equated with the stillness of air and the violence of a whirlwind. This mind oscillates in its intensity. This is the plasticity of the mind. This is the invisible (unsubstantiality – without material substance) spirit. This is what powers the human brain.


The above paragraph concerning who and what a human being is is the most important paragraph in this entire book. Deforming or missing this one piece of the puzzle falsifies comprehension of the rest of the story of humankind.

King David of Israel knew he had a spirit and, as we’d say, his spirit had ups and downs, good and bad phases. Human beings are not robots, we’re subject to all sorts of positive and negative experiences and influences around us. Our spirits can be on a yoyo ride.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit (7307 – ruach) within me.

Hannah was the mother of the prophet Samuel. It was a long time before she became pregnant and that caused her some despair. She talks about how her spirit was affected.

1 Samuel 1:15

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord [Eli, the Priest], I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit (7307 – ruach): I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

During Job’s troubles (he was a servant of God) there was a lengthy discussion with three of his closest friends and peers. A fourth younger individual, Elihu, was also present, but not having the same experience and stature as the three others he kept quiet. As the exchanges boiled on and each side maintained its stance Elihu became more and more righteously upset. He knew both parties were off-subject. I won’t go into details here but finally, he could no longer hold back and burst into the conversation.

Job 32:18

For I  [Elihu] am full of matter, the spirit (7307 – ruach) within me constrains me.


This chapter simply shows you what the Bible says about how the minds of all men and women function. The every day, minute-by-minute workings that take place in the mind. Not in the brain. These are activities that take place at the neshama and ruach level. Remember, both of these components were endowed on humans, the neshama by breathing into the first man’s nostrils (Genesis 2:7) and the ruach which God formed in humans (Zechariah 12:1).

The last post about the role of neshama and this post about the role of the spirit in man are 2 pieces of the puzzle that fit so tightly together its like protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom. They are inseparable and fundamental particles of each human. Unfortunately, you have to ask yourself, how many people, researchers, scientists, psychologists are aware of this and act accordingly?

Next, we will look at another Spirit. This is God’s Holy Spirit and how He uses that to intervene directly on the human spirit. This is the inter-relationship between God and man. This begins to show how and why God created humans and where He’s going with His plan.

This blog post is an excerpt from chapter 2.22 of the book Origin of Humankind

Further Study

Check Strong’s concordance for associated Biblical Hebrew words for ruach (7307). For instance, 7306 includes a KJV translation, quick understanding, 7304 is translated be refreshed and large. 7305 has the same notion of enlargement. The idea is the spirit can be revived, it can be enlarged for understanding. This is the power of the human mind and only the human mind.


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