The ancients taught that the soul, like the body, has health and sickness. And just as one suffering sickness of the body may taste the bitter as sweet and the sweet as bitter, so those sick of soul may
crave what harms them; they must consult the wisdom of the sages to heal them.
(Shemoneh Perakim, Chapter 3)
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