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Where does mental illness come from? and how to fix it - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Where does mental illness come from? and how to fix it - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] before we start I got a certain question asked so many times lately so I thought maybe of answering that question here because it applies to to many people and the question is broken into different groups but the main topic is where does sicknesses and illnesses and especially mental illnesses come from if they come from something that we are responsible for is it come from something that we can control or something way above us for the sicknesses for the body illnesses that I have a three-hour lecture online that I explained in a very thorough and deep way why do we get sick where does it come from because ultimately everything comes from from Hashem and ultimately everything comes from a spiritual realm and we have control over everything the short version of the answer of the of the body the sickness that we get get in the body is is that we know that we have 248 positive mitv and we have 365 negative mitv the 248 positive mitzvot correspond to the 248 limbs that we have in our body which they correspond to the 248 limbs that Hashem hasem doesn't have limbs but he has 2 148 channels how he gets dressed into this world the zor calls it Thea the limbs of the king but these spiritual limbs they manifest into our body into physical limbs we know that our nefes the lowest part of our Nish has 248 Powers 248

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  2. 6:42world and still get sick and the proof to that that we see that Rish Shimon
  3. 13:05particular about all the little things and explaining that the slightest thing that you miss in
  4. 19:32has food coloring in it my kids sometimes they come home with these rubber things like
  5. 25:53these kipot they look for the bodies that have Kusa we know that when the night
  6. 32:20on on P then the person is you know the soul got cut off the reaction
  7. 38:52get is severe cu the action that I did is severe and the action can can
  8. 45:08everybody in this in our in our generation they're suffering from something and and it's not
  9. 51:27drawing with the pencils if the pencil is not sharp then the the thickness of how
  10. 58:00be and sometimes you can put you'll see like a pole and the sun will hit

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