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Is anxiety a Jewish superpower?

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Anxiety can be debilitating. It's also a Jewish superpower. Because as the great mystics teach us, if you're suffering from an anxiety, it's a gateway into feeling the real anxiety. The underlying anxiety of every single soul is that it was separated from infinity and it's contained in a finite physical body, not knowing that it's really a derivative of infinity. That's our deepest anxiety. It's the anxiety of a soul that's homesick. I miss Hashem. I miss God. I am an extension of God and when I don't feel it, there's anxiety. When anxiety, however, becomes detached from this cosmic anxiety, then it often plunges me into a miserable life.