In each episode, a person who underwent an NDE (Near-Death Experience) relates their experience for around half-an-hour.
Hebrew-speakers prefer the term mavet klini — clinical death, so that's what you'll find the topic referred to in Hebrew.
For example: the experience of Nitzan Manoh, age 47, who experienced an NDE years ago as a completely secular woman after the birth of her fourth child.
(Apparently, a missed clot caused the "death.")
Nitzan described feeling the tremendous love permeating the Next World.
But she also described the intensity of the life review she experienced.
One incident in particular clearly still pains her to remember, even though she was under bat mitzvah (i.e., not halachically obligated in mitzvot) and grew up in a secular family in the upper-class secular neighborhood of Ramat Hachayal near North Tel Aviv:
And I remember that I experienced profound shame as a nine-year-old girl in Ramat Hachayal and a Chassidic man passed by and I said something to him—I sang a certain something to him—forgive me, but I won’t repeat it—and there, I felt what he felt.
I didn’t feel what I said. I felt what he felt during the moment I spoke. And it was very...painful. Humiliating.
And the shame there isn’t like the shame here.
It’s terribly difficult to endure the shame there.
A friend asked me what was that shame like?
And I said the closest thing I can compare it to is removing everything and being completely exposed before everyone.
And that is still minor in comparison.
The inappropriate speech and behavior she displayed toward her parents and others — she mentioned it with visible pain and shame.
Because, in her own words, she'd been a brazen & chutzpadik person who behaved however she wanted, her life review contained a lot of pain and shame.
She continued to emphasize the experience of her being the shame itself, she was the pain itself—but she was also love itself.
And she felt these all together.
After the cleansing life review and while continuing to experience the state of profound love in the Afterlife, she didn’t want to return. But Nitzan was told she has zechut avot (ancestral merit)—in addition to a purpose which she hadn’t yet fulfilled.
Then a very special soul approached.
She could sense this soul's astounding holiness, and also its familiarity (unknown to her until later).
This very special soul told her:
“Just remember that Shabbat is an inseparable part of you.”
A New Beginning – And New Hardships
She encountered difficulties in dealing with her life and her marriage.
She recalled she was told she had a purpose to fulfill, but at the time, she could not figure out what that meant.
And despite having been such a brazen person her whole life, her NDE life review now made it very difficult to ever hurt someone’s feelings.
Nor could she bear hearing others hurt another’s feelings or speak about people negatively.
Surprisingly, it took her around 7 years to start her process of teshuvah. (Did she at least start keeping Shabbat during that time? Not clear.)
Thus far, Nitzan's journey reminds me of Alon Anava's initial journey, in which he did not become fully shomer mitzvot immediately after his NDE, mentioned briefly here:
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Instead, he immediately began the process internally, but it took a while to reach what Orthodox Jews consider the fundamentals of keeping the mitzvot (though that was his goal the entire process and not an avoidance of the goal).
The Importance of Balanced Bonding
Shabbat is strictly for the Yisrael soul ONLY.
A non-Yisrael soul would never be told such a thing.
And zechut avot means her ancestors were definitely Yisrael souls. This means Nitzan descends both biologically and spiritually from true Jews.
Those secular and brazen aspects were apparently just klippot (or Erev Rav sparks hiding within a predominantly Yisrael soul, etc.).
After all, we see how easily she shed those hurtful behaviors & developed profound empathy once presented with the truth.
So with all the talk about unity, we must take care to unify only with Yisrael souls.
Bonding to a non-Yisrael soul masquerading as a Jew will not bring about true unity.
After all, we aren't the same adam (as explained further below) we aren't part of the same spiritual "body," so the unification will not work.
It's like trying to bond someone else's appendage to your own body (like adding another person's liver in addition to your own, or trying to attach someone else's pinky toe to your own foot, giving you 11 toes instead of 10, and so on).
Not only is it impossible, but it's harmful.
The Spiritual Physics of Achdut – Jewish Unity
Within that visualization, she saw the image behind the voice that had spoken to her about Shabbat being an inseparable part of her.
She said the "person" (it was actually a soul) was small, very thin, admoni—ruddy (meaning his skin and hair) with light eyes.
While she immediately recognized him as the great soul who spoke to her about Shabbat, she also perceived him as very familiar, a familiarity that existed prior to the NDE encounter. She felt certain she knew him.
But she couldn’t figure it out until she realized:
That great a soul who spoke with me was David Hamelech.
Why should such a great soul speak with me? Who am I?
What am I compared to him?
Why should such a great soul reveal himself to someone so small as myself?
But when we are Above, we understand something, we understand something much more powerful.
We understand we are all one.
As the Gemara says, Am Yisrael is a whole person together. (When the Gemara labels Am Yisrael as an adam, noting how other nations are not, a superficial reading of it causes some to interpret it wrongly. It actually means Am Yisrael is interconnected as one person — adam.)
This knocked me between the eyes because it explains how very great souls connect to lower souls within Am Yisrael — and WHY they even desire to do so.
It's very much how a person wishes to take care of an ingrown nail in his pinky toe.
He doesn't say, "Pshaw! It's just a tiny insignificant little toe! My heart, lungs, and hands are so much more important!"
No, the malfunctioning pinky toenail HURTS him.
He can't ignore it. Nor does he wish to just chop it off because even though it's one of the least parts of his body, he still needs it. He WANTS it.
And that is a very beautiful and inspiring revelation.
This is why Rachel Imeinu wanted to be buried on the road for all the Exiles.
This is why davening at the gravesite of a holy person or approaching a holy person for a bracha works. They WANT us to. They feel the bond with us.
Truly great people FEEL the connection of adam with us.
You are a Vital Piece of the Puzzle
Finally, she managed to do teshuvah and live as a fully observant Jew. She worked out her issues in her marriage, family, and self.
She emphasized her perception that Hashem doesn’t give us trials and "smacks."
Instead, He sends us “instructions.”
Nitzan encourages us with the lesson that these "instructions" and many other experiences are meant to unify us.
Everything is love and unity.
We all came from the same place and will return to the same place...each person has his piece, which is meant to complete this entire puzzle.
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