Nephesh, Ruach, and Neshama:
What's the actual difference? Can someone have one without the other?
A sleeping person is still alive and has their Nephesh, but while unconscious does not have their Neshama. When they die, their Nephesh dies, and their Neshama returns to G-d?
One person suggested that a drugged up or brain damaged person may be alive and conscious, (have their nephesh and neshama), but lack their Ruach because, while they are "awake"... they aren't "themselves."
Is that close? Or do any of them actually translate to a spirit that can live, consciously, outside of the body, like a "ghost?"
What's the actual difference? Can someone have one without the other?
A sleeping person is still alive and has their Nephesh, but while unconscious does not have their Neshama. When they die, their Nephesh dies, and their Neshama returns to G-d?
One person suggested that a drugged up or brain damaged person may be alive and conscious, (have their nephesh and neshama), but lack their Ruach because, while they are "awake"... they aren't "themselves."
Is that close? Or do any of them actually translate to a spirit that can live, consciously, outside of the body, like a "ghost?"