Q&A: What Happens to a Convert's Soul? - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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the question was when a person converts uh they receive a new Nish uh where does the old Nish go so first of all there is actually Aus a very interesting makus in cabala how do we understand the spiritual essence of a convert some indeed look at it as a new when you go to the Mikvah you're under the Mikvah so when you emerge from the Mikvah there's a new spiritual Essence that comes into you that is one one that comes into you that is one one there's another that a gar was born with a Jewish Nish it's like a Jewish n in a non-jewish body he didn't get a new Nish rather there is now a correspondence between your body and your Nish your Nish is now matched up with your gof to enable your Nish to do the mitzvos that it needs for its ticking because the mitzvos are connected to the the Goof right words my

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1. 0:00the question was when a person converts uh they receive a new Nish uh where does…
2. 0:31that comes into you that is one one there's another that a gar was born with…
3. 1:01connected to the the Goof right words my Jewish Nish in a non-jewish body cannot do…
4. 1:31little kid but every shabas he felt a great deal of anxiety he didn't know why…
5. 2:02that from the time he was seven years old he had this chronic anxiety of feeling…
6. 2:33so the question is where does the old Nish go so that's a hard question nishas…

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