The physical body is answerable along with the soul in how it conducts itself while here on Earth. We are plagued by the world, the devil, and the FLESH. There was once a king who possessed a beautiful orchard full of fruit bearing trees. He set two men as watchmen over this garden, one lame and one blind. The lame man said to the blind man, “I see some choice fruits over there, let me get on your back and we will go get some to eat”. So the lame man mounted on the blind man’s back and they took the fruits and ate as much as they could hold. This continued day after day as they ate their fill each day from among the choice fruits.

After a while the owner of the orchard came and asked, “ What has happened to all my choice fruits”? The lame man said to the owner, “ Have I legs that I could go and pick the fruit”? The blind man in turn replied, “ Have I eyes that I could see to go pick the fruit”? So what did the king do? He ordered the lame man to get on the back of the blind man and judged them as one. At the final judgement our soul will be cast back into our body and judged as one. If not, the body could declare, “look, it is the soul who sinned, since I was separated from the soul I have only lain here in silence doing nothing sinful”. Likewise, the soul could answer, “ but look at me, since I was separated from the body I just fly around in space hurting no one”. So we see how both are guilty in the eyes of YHVH.

One reacts on the other. We must try our best to let the Godly part of us overrule the sinful part. Then there’s a physical cleanliness to be dealt with. It is told of Hillel that when he finished his lesson with his students, he walked part of the way home with them and then turned to depart. His students asked him, “where are you going Rabbi”? “To perform a religious duty”, he answered them. “I am going to the bath house”. “Is that a religious duty”, they ask? He answered them, “ If someone is appointed to scrape and clean the statues of the king which are set up in theatres and such, and even gets paid to do this as they associate with nobility, how much more should I, who am created in the divine image and likeness of my creator take care of my body”! We can see how great of an importance cleanliness was to the Hebrew people. So cleanliness is next to Godliness in more ways than people realize!