I feel like im a little bit of a learned person so mayby i can be of a clarification to the confused. The soul, or neshamah is the self, the “I” that inhabits the body and acts through it.You are not your body.
The neshameh is described as Hashems own breath animating us: “And Hashem breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.”
Evry existence requires a soul to sustain it—a “spark of G‑dliness” . A soul is not just the engine of life; it also embodies the why of a thing’s existence, its meaning and purpose. Yechidah connotes the essence of the soul—its unity with its source, the singular essence of Hashem. For the essence of the soul of man is “literally a part of Hashem above a piece of G‑d in us, so to speak. NOT KFERAH!!!The human neshameh is what sets the human being
above and apart from all other creations, even the angels. The angel may be more spiritual, but the human being is more G‑dly.