Dr. Zev Ballen #fundie breslev.co.il

["I read your article and was quite embarrassed as a Jewish psychotherapist and as a psychiatrist that someone can still be so ignorant. If you believe that the point of psychotherapy is useless as 'everything' comes form Hashem, then why do you do psychotherapy? [...] Next time I see a patient with Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder, Major depression, eating disorder, etc, I will tell them there is nothing I can do, as 'everything' comes from Hashem and talking to me just adds to the doubt."]

Psychotherapy is not only useless - it's downright dangerous to the soul of a Jewish person when it is conducted by a therapist who doesn't acknowledge that all healing comes from Hashem. A psychotherapist with emuna, on the other hand, can elevate and strengthen his patient's awareness of Hashem and teach him about his true purpose in life - He or she is not useless at all - such therapists have a very important role to play before Moshiach.

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Here you have listed some of the most severe mental conditions that psychiatrists treat. Honestly, Doc - do you really think that there is anything that you can do to cure these plagues - if the greatest Tzaddikim of previous generations all the way back to our Patriarchs and Matriarchs have not had the merit to rectify this world and it's ills - are you going to be offended if I suggest that your medical degree might not be enough to tip the scale or even that the whole medical profession could not?

C'mon Doc - you can prescribe medicine for your patients and sometimes calm them for a while - but do you really know who they are and what they've gone through? How far can simple people like you and I actually see into the spiritual roots of our patient's dilemma?

Have you ever wondered, Doc, why great Tzaddikim like the Chozeh of Lublin (The Seer from Lublin), the Baal Shem Tov, Rebbe Nachman of Breslev, and the Baba Sali were able to cure the sick without ever once opening a medical textbook? It was because they had eyes like spiritual MRI machines. They could look into a person's eyes and in seconds see the story of their soul as it passed through a chain of previous lifetimes - they could to see way back to the root cause of a person's illness and rectify it.

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Doctors whose faith is limited to what they learned in medical school will never be able to perform miracles - Hashem limits those doctors to healing within the confines of natural law. Since Hashem is higher than nature, when a doctor turns to Hashem and puts his ultimate faith in Hashem rather than in the medicines and treatments he administers - he merits being a messenger of the Divine. The Angel Raphael (from the Hebrew Refuah - to heal) is constantly with that doctor and his patients.

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Doc, please have mercy on those you took an oath to treat. Human suffering just keeps getting worse: suicide, murder, mental illness, divorce, abuse, rape, addiction. You can either continue to put your faith in your medical books - and watch as mental illness continues to spiral out of control; or you ca have the courage to join us in begging Hashem to show us our true place at His feet. Only once we've humbled ourselves before Hashem - will we have the joy, serenity and the personal power to channel goodness and health to our patients.

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