07/02/2022
Ru'ach, a Semitic word familiar to us from Arabic as well. At its core stands the movement of air, it is the western, or easterly wind, and just a blowing wind, and in English: wind. But, Ru'ach -רוח in Hebrew also means spirit. This air movement allows us to exist, and thus 'spirit' has become synonymous with the human soul, our non-physical element.
In English the word spirit, is related in its incarnation to the breath. Spiritus in Latin is breath, spirare means to breathe. In Hebrew- 'neshima' The one who dies receives a soul candle,- 'Ner neshama' נר נשמה and appears in our dreams as a ghost, called in Hebrew 'Ru'ach refa'im'- רוח רפאים