QUESTION:
1) Do all of our intentions in our efforts to redeem the Shechinah, which is concealed by our nefesh habehaimis (animal soul), which we redeem by nullifying our will to Hashem’s will – does this materialize only after death?
ANSWER:
Part of it is revealed already now [during one’s lifetime].
QUESTION
2) Is our ability to approach the light of Hashem and the Next World entirely a result of our requests from Hashem when we were alive on this world, and from our difficulties we faced in actualizing our inner desire to go above our natural desires of our animal soul to serve Hashem for the sake of His Name?
ANSWER
In potential, it is always existent, and it becomes actualized and brought to fruition through doing our avodah (task) on this world.
QUESTION
3) Is all that we’re doing on this world essentially fixing our soul so that the self-focused desires of our animal soul won’t remain with us after we die?
ANSWER
It depends on how much self-purification a person underwent on this world.
QUESTION
4) Are our requests from Hashem to materialize our inner will to overcome our animalistic tendencies all a return of the Shechinah’s light which became concealed on this world, returning it to its original state when it was unified with Hashem?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
5) Is all of this a spark of Mashiach?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
6) Is all that we have acquired on this world essentially the very judgment that will decide if we can approach Hashem’s light and the Next World?
ANSWER
Yes, and it becomes even more revealed after death, when we are divested of all physicality.
QUESTION
7) And if yes, is that the general and universal avodah for all people, in spite of all the pain that we are in as a result of unfixed character in an our animal soul which leaves us in an egoistic and self-focused state?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
8) In short, the question is: After we die, do we remain emotionally connected to our natural desires that we had on this world? For example if a person dies and he still feels an emotional connection to Internet, does that desire remain with him even in death, or does that connection become erased after death, leaving him with only his true and holy desires of wanting to do Hashem’s will?
ANSWER
Yes! Yes! Slowly, the soul despairs [from its worldly desires], because [after death] it sees and understands that it can no longer return to there anymore.
ABORTION
I have a relative who went to the doctors for an ultrasound and she told that her fetus won’t live for more than a few months, and she was told to do abortion. She received a ruling from several Rabbonim who are G-d fearing people, that she should do the abortion. She is inconsolable over this and has so many questions: Why is Hashem doing this to her? Why did Hashem make this fetus have to undergo abortion and be killed? For what purpose does this unborn child have to go through this? I am at a loss of what to tell her, but she wants answers and she wants to be consoled. What is the attitude to have about this situation?
ANSWER
Chazal said that before Hashem created our world, He created several worlds and then destroyed them, so these worlds never fully developed. The concept of these undeveloped worlds sometimes becomes manifest in the active sense in these souls who don’t develop fully, who have a soul root in these undeveloped worlds that were destroyed. Sometimes these souls get a tikkun (a repair) after developing as a fetus for a short amount of time, and sometimes they get a tikkun a little later when they have to undergo abortion. They have to undergo some form of punishment [in order to rectify the damage that resulted from them in those undeveloped worlds], measure-for-measure [by being destroyed, which mimics how their roots never developed fully and become destroyed].
QUESTION
2) Is our ability to approach the light of Hashem and the Next World entirely a result of our requests from Hashem when we were alive on this world, and from our difficulties we faced in actualizing our inner desire to go above our natural desires of our animal soul to serve Hashem for the sake of His Name?
ANSWER
In potential, it is always existent, and it becomes actualized and brought to fruition through doing our avodah (task) on this world.
QUESTION
3) Is all that we’re doing on this world essentially fixing our soul so that the self-focused desires of our animal soul won’t remain with us after we die?
ANSWER
It depends on how much self-purification a person underwent on this world.
QUESTION
4) Are our requests from Hashem to materialize our inner will to overcome our animalistic tendencies all a return of the Shechinah’s light which became concealed on this world, returning it to its original state when it was unified with Hashem?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
5) Is all of this a spark of Mashiach?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
6) Is all that we have acquired on this world essentially the very judgment that will decide if we can approach Hashem’s light and the Next World?
ANSWER
Yes, and it becomes even more revealed after death, when we are divested of all physicality.
QUESTION
7) And if yes, is that the general and universal avodah for all people, in spite of all the pain that we are in as a result of unfixed character in an our animal soul which leaves us in an egoistic and self-focused state?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
8) In short, the question is: After we die, do we remain emotionally connected to our natural desires that we had on this world? For example if a person dies and he still feels an emotional connection to Internet, does that desire remain with him even in death, or does that connection become erased after death, leaving him with only his true and holy desires of wanting to do Hashem’s will?
ANSWER
Yes! Yes! Slowly, the soul despairs [from its worldly desires], because [after death] it sees and understands that it can no longer return to there anymore.
ABORTION
I have a relative who went to the doctors for an ultrasound and she told that her fetus won’t live for more than a few months, and she was told to do abortion. She received a ruling from several Rabbonim who are G-d fearing people, that she should do the abortion. She is inconsolable over this and has so many questions: Why is Hashem doing this to her? Why did Hashem make this fetus have to undergo abortion and be killed? For what purpose does this unborn child have to go through this? I am at a loss of what to tell her, but she wants answers and she wants to be consoled. What is the attitude to have about this situation?
ANSWER
Chazal said that before Hashem created our world, He created several worlds and then destroyed them, so these worlds never fully developed. The concept of these undeveloped worlds sometimes becomes manifest in the active sense in these souls who don’t develop fully, who have a soul root in these undeveloped worlds that were destroyed. Sometimes these souls get a tikkun (a repair) after developing as a fetus for a short amount of time, and sometimes they get a tikkun a little later when they have to undergo abortion. They have to undergo some form of punishment [in order to rectify the damage that resulted from them in those undeveloped worlds], measure-for-measure [by being destroyed, which mimics how their roots never developed fully and become destroyed].
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