On one of the tapes it was stated that most illnesses are caused by talking, and the person asks that I should elucidate.
ANSWER:
Most illnesses are caused by emotional upset. It's well-known that a great many heart disease cases originate in emotional upset. When a person goes to a heart specialist, one of the first questions is, do you become angry easily or frequently. When you go to an eye specialist, he also asks that, because anger, oshso m'kaas einei, my eye is worn out from kaas. Kaas can ruin your eyes.
It certainly can cause chalila brain tumors, almost as much as a concussion! It can cause chalila diabetes, which we know. People from constant aggravation chalila contract diabetes; the metabolism is upset. It can cause a lot of things.
I know a man who killed his wife. She contracted cancer when she was young, because he was a vicious fellow, and she was a quiet woman that couldn't fight back. And he so ate up her vitals by his wickedness that she died young from cancer. No question in my mind that he was the cause.
Therefore most of these things come from emotional upset, but the emotions are upset more than anything else, by words. If people wouldn't argue, wouldn't talk, they wouldn't bite each other, then there would be a great deal less of emotional disturbances.
Most emotional disturbances come from mouth quarrels, more than would come from worries, from real things that bother a person's mind. And if people wouldn't talk, then there would be a great deal of good health in this world.
Good Shabbos To All
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: 201-676-3210
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