In Marvel’s new Captain America movie, Jarvis, the unintended artificial being, points to the infinity stone dormant inside the center of the top of his forehead.  He explains, “You know, I don’t know what this thing is. I know it’s not of this world…It’s true nature is a mystery, and yet it remains a part of me…I wish to understand it, the more I do, the less it controls me. Who knows, maybe one day I may even control it”. Jarvis describes what Judaism has been describing for thousands of years. The neshama, is the aspect of one’s soul that lies within the brain (Siddur). It is not of this world but rather a “portion of God from above” (Job 30:2). Our task is to master our neshama, to be able to fully integrate it within ourselves. To do this, we have to learn how to direct it, through Torah and Mitzvot, so that we can understand that divine part of ourselves more. And the more we understand it, the less it controls us. Hopefully one day we can fully control it.