Q: What is Pidyon Nefesh? Redemption of The Soul

uh what is pish uh pish is one of the things the uh cabalists uh you know people do it people that are involved in cabala do it uh if there is uh a person has uh you know just uh really tough time uh let's just say somebody's having a lot of bad things happen to them uh either there's sickness uh you know they have a uh Financial issues they have uh legal issues they have uh you know problems with uh health issues you know things like that they can't have children then sometimes they will go to somebody that can do a p NE for them uh and uh what it is is that they take uh 180 coins and they do this specific type of prayer for for the sake of that person it takes a long time uh to do it and that's why not everybody does it it uh and uh and usually the people that do it are uh you know they charge for it because it's it's not uh it cost a lot of time so even if a person is righteous uh they can't do that stuff for people every day we literally waste their entire life uh and also arranging 180 coins that in itself is a process and you have to donate these coins to specific poor people and so on and you know so it's it's a whole process uh I I've done it I've had uh a couple people that have helped connect them to somebody that uh you know is a friend of mine is AAL uh friend you know whatever somebody I know that's a m that does it uh but uh many times people have asked me about it and uh I tell them right up front I don't even ask him CU I know that you know most people are not willing to pay for stuff like this they think that it's like the rabbis are supposed to like work for free like it's some type of charitable cause uh they don't realize how much this stuff involves so uh many times I don't even tell tell them about it because uh I tell the people listen if you do this it's going to cost you you know uh $500 to $1,000 maybe more even so if the person say oh no no I think I have something else okay great thank you very much I don't have to waste my time making calls making arrangements and then you just simply wasting his time I tell you it costs money it's a if you want to do it great uh if you don't want to do it please don't don't waste anybody's time uh but as far as does it work it can work uh it can work it's not something that's guaranteed nothing is guaranteed because again sometimes it's not the pish that would help or rather Chua that would help if the person is doing everything possible to fix themselves uh and they do a p then it's good but if the person is doing a p but he's still wasting seed he's still going out with different girls he's still uh you know stealing in his business he's still dishonest he's still doing all types of sins PF is not going to do anything to him PF is not going to do anything to him so it's it's is something that you do for people that uh at the very least are uh doing something for themselves unless you know they're uh you know there's like literal life on the line and then you just pretty much just try anything anyway but again there's no guarantee that it'll work it can work it certainly has worked uh but it's not it's not like something that's guaranteed by no stretch of the imagination and if I can tell you from experience if somebody tells you listen yeah no problem just do the P you give me 50 bucks 100 bucks you could be sure they're not doing it not because it's anything else other than the fact that it just takes a lot of time takes a lot of time to do it it's not uh it's not 5 minutes so anyone that does not value their time uh you know it's a it's it's I wouldn't want them to do a p NE for me and you know the Torah people that do it usually are serious Torah Scholars people that value every second so they're not going to do it uh uh you know for for for nothing now of course there are some that will randomly do it for specific causes for specific people and so on but it's that usually those people don't deal with the general public honesty help countless people get closer to because For the First Time in their life they hurt they honesty honesty that's brutal but is effective but is effective