Nefesh Ibbur: Shemini Atzeret and Shiddukhim

The Neshamah of Yid goes to the next world. We know this already, but what about that spark that is the Nefesh? The Nefesh is connected to this world. If a person dies but has his or her Nefesh occupy a pre-existing person, that’s an ibbur (impregnation) which does not have a negative impact on the person.

Another point is that after the Holocaust, many Jewish people were able to get married and repopulate the nation of Israel, and after the mass deaths on Shemini Atzeret, I understood that the mass transmigrations of those Nefashos would move in the right direction to help many Jews find their soulmate.

Hashem has his derekh of moving the nation of Israel towards the redemption, and sometimes, the larger tragedies, as experienced on Shemini Atzeret 5784, move us in the right derekh towards His masterplan.