The purpose of the Soul is to contain meaning (Torah) that the world be renewed (like the dreamer's soul) through G*d's holiness.
The Soul (as in single) G*d is one. Each of us individual ones. QED we are one in G*d.
The Soul is our particular being. Thus G*d is the soul of creation, The Torah is the Soul of Talmud. Israel is the Soul of Humanity. (G*d is more than the soul of creation but it is a interesting idea.)
The Soul is that which endures experience not just in that which survives but that which experiences it.
The Soul "Fills, sees, sustains, is pure, and dwells innermost"
The Soul 'returns to' heaven and is refreshed. One extrapolation from this might be that there is no reality without G*d. Without G*d there is nothing immutable by which to establish reality (The work of our hands, the universe, our purpose.) When we establish our own unique values they still have no value without a language of agreement, G*d connects us with meaning, G*d gives the words meaning, G*d is the why, the how, and the very moments of life. G*d is beyond and within.
The Creation of man involves G*d's spirit and breath. The Creation of the world is still present to G*d as is eternity. We can know this only from our connection to the Creator. Israel is commanded to remember Creation and to guard Shabbat.
We have two souls on Shabbat. One is connected to all observant Jews throughout time, to the Avot. Only through this door are they bound to life. Just as only through G*d is life 'unending' for mankind. Again I think of the power of Kaddish.
The Soul is an incorruptible connection to G*d.
Soul as breath, breath as a cycle. One whole of a inhale and exhale.
Soul as the base class that our self at any moment instantiates. (Like in programming.) Or the expression "He spoke in the spirit of Lincoln."
Soul fills the body as G*d's glory fills the world.
(Again I am wondering if by glory they mean presence.)
Soul is outside of time but is also somehow a response to G*d's presence which we experience in time?
Soul belongs to G*d. (all does of course.)
Soul for Christians is what is judged and this idea is limiting.
Maybe when I make constructs up like "Israel is like the soul of mankind." What if Only the soul has reality. Only Israel must suffer for all the world, so that through them G*d can influence humanity. (That isn't to be bigoted, just a possible formulation. One which no doubt kept the Shabbat candles going through centuries of exhile.)
The proverb said Man's spirit is the light of the G*d, searching the inmost depths. G*d we know is "unsearchable" (another psalm so just as weigthy.) Light makes it easier to search. Our being is a expression derived from The un-abstracted being, the unlimitable being, Yet is not the impersonal Buddhist negation of being, Meaning is not to be rendered meaningless and canceled out. That would be a pointless chaos of equations unrelated, having order only by chance. A hell in which nothing could be understood.
