The Root of All a Person’s Problems
QUESTION
8) What is the root of all a person’s problems? Can we say that all problems come from a lack of emunah, from a lack of kedushah, from not learning mussar, from not having enough connection to a tzaddik, from not being immersed enough in Torah, from not having emunah or from not being b’simchah, etc.? I hear so many different views on what the root of all of a person’s issues is and it seems that each path in avodas Hashem points to a different root. I’m a bit confused by this because I think that they’re all correct. What indeed is the root of all of a person’s troubles and problems? Is there an order to it?
ANSWER
The root of all issues is when a person doesn’t have the light of Hashem revealed in his life. From there onward, every person has his own root where his problems may be stemming from.
