{"id":98403,"date":"2022-11-20T01:06:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98403"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:06:45","slug":"the-soul-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-soul-of-the-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soul of the Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Soul of the Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man came to me, all shaken up. His wife had awoken in the night in a fright. In her sleep, she had felt a woman press her eyes very hard. She was extremely traumatized by this experience and asked what she was supposed to do.<\/p>\n

I thought long and hard about this. Suddenly, I remembered reading about a similar incident the past Shabbat. A certain tzaddik was approached by people who complained that unknown figures had disturbed their sleep. The tzaddik asked whether these Jews had recently uprooted a tree, to which they answered yes. He then explained that the tree may have contained a gilgul<\/em> of a previous neshamah.<\/em> With the destruction of the tree, the neshamah<\/em> was prevented from receiving its tikkun<\/em>. It had now come to scare those responsible.<\/p>\n

I told this story to the man who stood before me. I asked whether he or his wife had recently uprooted a tree. He answered yes, and added that recently, a few family members had met their demise.<\/p>\n

I sank into thought, and then said, \u201cListen, I can\u2019t be sure, but it may be that the neshamah<\/em> of one of your family members found refuge in that tree in order to find a tikkun<\/em>. By chopping down the tree, you caused that neshamah<\/em> untold pain. This is why it came to disturb your wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

I advised the man and his wife to make a tikkun<\/em> for this neshamah<\/em> according to a method prescribed in a sefer. I hoped that this would lay the matter to rest. I have no idea whether or not he did as I said.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I heard that a few days later, one of his family members fell asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand. The cigarette fell upon the blanket and ignited it, causing a terrible fire, in which the smoker died.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Soul of the Matter A man came to me, all shaken up. His wife had awoken in the night in a fright. In her sleep, she had felt a woman press her eyes very hard. She was extremely traumatized by this experience and asked what she was supposed to do. I thought long and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}