QUESTION:
Why we are seeing so many cholei nefesh (emotional and mental illnesses) today, which weren’t around in previous generations?
ANSWER:
The external reasons for this are because of the very stressful lifestyle of today’s time, and also the surge of information that everyone knows about today, which causes a person to lose his calmness and peace of mind, and which causes a person to increased tensions and pressures, and more issues. The inner reason for this is because most of the souls in today’s generation are reincarnations (gilgulim) of several souls at once in the same body – either a person also has an entire soul that has been completely reincarnated, or he has “sparks” from souls of a previous lifetime. This leads to many inner contradictions in one’s soul, [resembling the dichotomy of] “two nations are in your stomach.”
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