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Einstein and the Rabbi REVIVING SOULS

Three years ago I began to feel the presence of another soul tug-

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ging at me. This time it w ­ asn’t the soul of a loved one, it was the soul of a man I had never even met. I d ­ idn’t see it coming. I was just minding my own business . . . ​ I was ­doing research for a class called Oneness. I wanted to teach my students to see the ways we are all interconnected—­the living, the dead, animals, rocks, all of creation. I was ­going to share with them the meta­phor I used when I first taught my c­ hildren about the soul and about what happens to the soul ­after death. I’d say, “­We’re all part of a cosmic soup.” “A soup like chicken soup?” t­ hey’d say. “No, thicker,” I’d reply. “Like a vegetable soup?” “No,” I’d say, “more like a stew.” That’s been my meta­phor for our place in eternity. I believe that the physical world we perceive is actually part of a spiritual world that is as close to us as our own breath. We are all part of a churning cos-

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