Question:
I easily feel others’ pain, every painful event that happens in the world bothers me to no end and I can’t think straight from it. Is this a good middah or a bad middah?
Answer:
Feeling another’s pain is a good middah, mainly when it stems from your nefesh Elokis (G-dly soul). However, if feeling others’ pain makes you unable to function afterwards meaning that you can’t return to being happy afterwards, and slowly your pain for others is controlling you, then it is not feeling another’s pain anymore because now it has turned into depression and it is a sign of being emotionally imbalanced.
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