THE BODY IS THE TOMB

“If the body was the home of the soul in its condition of “death,” then it was the grave, the tomb, the sarcophagus, the sepulcher, the mummy case of the soul. And so one finds the Sages referring to the physical corpus of man as the prison, the underground dungeon, the pit, the cave, and finally the tomb of the soul. This life, they said, was the soul’…