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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 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 Jewish Nish in a non-jewish body cannot do the mitzvos and that creates a lot of now my body matches my that's why by the way a number of G not everybody so it's hard to empirically prove this they describe a sense of unease from the time they were young children I mean they of for example the famous getic of vilna didn't even know any Jews when he was a little kid but every shabas he felt a great deal of anxiety he didn't know why he felt something was wrong meaning there was something in him I spoke to somebody today who he was not a g he was actually a but he was born a Jew but he was born into a very very very secular family not even reform ethnical culture which is to the extreme left of the reform movement so reform would be K reform and this is like uh you know real real real out there and he mentioned that from the time he was seven years old he had this chronic anxiety of feeling he was in the wrong place feeling he didn't belong now there I would say that's the yish coming out but the MS is even non Jews have described it that way so your question is not a question if you follow the Sha that this is the soul that he always had now but if you learned the other way and people do learn it the other way that it Mish is a new so the question is where does the old Nish go so that's a hard question nishas are not like trash that are recycled essentially because nishas are aspects of of God's breath so to speak even non-jewish nishas so it simply gets reabsorbed into the totality of God's infinity and no longer has a sense of individual identity it simply goes back to its Shish and just gets reabsorbed in to the msas msus hasem okay