QUESTION:
A friend of mine was in a car accident and had a “near-death experience” after being declared clinically dead. He awoke and later told over what he saw in the upper world, and he had several points to share. This is what he learned when his soul rose up:
(1) It was revealed to him there that most of the aveiros that are considered more serious are the aveiros that involved not guarding one’s eyes and not being careful with one’s kedusha (personal holiness). (Is that really true?)
(2) He was allowed to go back down to the world and remain alive because he did a lot of chessed. (Is there such a thing?)
(3) He saw above that a relative had died because someone cursed him. (Can a person die because of a curse?)
(1) It was revealed to him there that most of the aveiros that are considered more serious are the aveiros that involved not guarding one’s eyes and not being careful with one’s kedusha (personal holiness). (Is that really true?)
(2) He was allowed to go back down to the world and remain alive because he did a lot of chessed. (Is there such a thing?)
(3) He saw above that a relative had died because someone cursed him. (Can a person die because of a curse?)
ANSWER:
There are many courts above in Heaven, and they are generally known as the “24 heavenly courts”. For every level that the soul rises to up above, there is another heavenly court for that level.
The episode which you are mentioning was all a verdict that was issued from the first level of these 24 Heavenly courts, which the soul encounters upon leaving the world. The verdict that one receives depends on the various dinim (judgments) that comprise that level above which his soul has risen to. That is the general view on all such experiences that are reported.
Regarding the question about chessed saving from death, yes, there is such a thing that chessed saves from death. The Gemara (Rosh HaShanah 18a) says that kindness and truth atones for sins.
And regarding the question about if one can die from a curse, it is certainly possible for a person to die from a curse, but it depends on the one who gave the curse as well as on the one being cursed. (Refer to Shaarei Teshuvah in the section of 20 Ikarei Teshuvah, in the section on “regret”).
The episode which you are mentioning was all a verdict that was issued from the first level of these 24 Heavenly courts, which the soul encounters upon leaving the world. The verdict that one receives depends on the various dinim (judgments) that comprise that level above which his soul has risen to. That is the general view on all such experiences that are reported.
Regarding the question about chessed saving from death, yes, there is such a thing that chessed saves from death. The Gemara (Rosh HaShanah 18a) says that kindness and truth atones for sins.
And regarding the question about if one can die from a curse, it is certainly possible for a person to die from a curse, but it depends on the one who gave the curse as well as on the one being cursed. (Refer to Shaarei Teshuvah in the section of 20 Ikarei Teshuvah, in the section on “regret”).
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