In Judaism, our sense of scent is considered holy. The very word for smell in Hebrew, reyach, is related to word ruach, or soul. When God created man, the Torah relates, “He blew into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). The site of our ability to appreciate scents became the very site where the soul entered the first human.
Leon Cohen
In Judaism, our sense of scent is considered holy. The very word for smell in Hebrew, reyach, is related to word ruach, or soul. When God created man, the Torah relates, “He blew into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). The site of our ability to appreciate scents became the very site where the soul entered the first human.