QUESTION:
The Rav explained that fears come from daas ra, from impaired thinking, and that one can release his fears by releasing his impaired daas, either through (a) talking about his worries to another, or (b) through drinking wine [on Purim]. Can the Rav explain more about how this works?
ANSWER:
(1) Telling over one’s worries to another helps a person remove a person’s daas. One thought communicates with another, as we see from the verse “I spoke with my heart”, and the Sages said that “the heart speaks”. So when a person has a fear, his mind is thinking and mentally verbalizing the fear, and this ignites the fear even more. But by talking about the fear to another, it leaves the thoughts and enters the realm of speech, and this calms the mind and mitigates the intensity of the fear.
(2) Drinking wine creates a certain disconnection from the senses, and through this one is freed from the situation he is found in, and this in turn calms the fear. Even more, when one drinks properly, he enters into a more inner place in his soul, as in “When wine enters, the secret comes out” – and there, everything is good. Reaching this place is the root of repairing fear.
(2) Drinking wine creates a certain disconnection from the senses, and through this one is freed from the situation he is found in, and this in turn calms the fear. Even more, when one drinks properly, he enters into a more inner place in his soul, as in “When wine enters, the secret comes out” – and there, everything is good. Reaching this place is the root of repairing fear.
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