‘You can’t choose the card you’re dealt, but you can choose to live every minute of it.’ This could come straight from a Jewish Mussar text, but it’s actually from an enamored reviewer of the movie, “ Soul.” Coco” and “ It’s a Wonderful Life” and “ Mr. Holland’s Opus” – with perhaps a touch of “ Michael” (John Travolta), and a riff from “ August Rush” (Robin Williams). Personally, what intrigued me most about “ Soul” is that it may get both kids and adults to pay more attention to the concept of an after and before life, or as the movie calls it, ‘The Great Beyond’ and The Great Before’, and even to a hypothetical Zone in between spirit and body. Many people resist this possibility, sometimes because they feel a soul is not physically perceptible, or that thinking about an afterlife, will take them away from the importance of this life. So I believe a most vital message from this film, for our people and our times is that not only are the many lives of the soul compatible, but they are even inseparable. This premise overrides any technical or dramatic flaws that some viewers or reviewers may find in the film. It is a premise that is also supported by more and more reports of NDE’s- Near Death Experiences, coming to light. As the film terms it, the ‘Thin Spot’ between worlds may be getting more and more permeable as people become more open to these realms.