“From the ground [adama]” – Rabbi Berekhya and Rabbi Ḥelbo said in the name of Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman: From the place of his atonement he was created, just as it says: “You shall make for Me an altar of earth [adama]” (Exodus 20:21). The Holy One blessed be He said: ‘I will create him from the place of his atonement; then there is hope that perhaps he will endure.’ “And breathed into his nostrils” – this teaches that He stood up his [Adam’s] lifeless mass from the earth to the heavens and [there] injected a soul into it.
In this world, it [the spirit] is [injected into man] by blowing, and that is why he dies; but in the future, it [the spirit] will be [injected] by [direct] placement,31And will therefore be immortal. as it is stated: “I will place My spirit in you and you will live” (Ezekiel 37:14).