QUESTION:
We can’t understand the ways of Hashem, but what is the purpose of Alzheimer’s disease? With all other illnesses, the sick person can at least learn Torah and do mitzvos, but with Alzheimer’s, a person cannot learn or do mitzvos. The whole reason why we are on this world is to learn Torah and do mitzvos, so what then is the purpose of Alzheimer’s disease in which a person can’t fulfill his purpose of why he came onto the world?
ANSWER:
It is so that others will do chessed with them by taking care of them, and thereby gain zechusim (merits). It is also because any suffering on this world cleanses the soul.
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