Few medicines have been greeted with as much exultation as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, but now the same antidepressants have become the new villains of modern psychopharmacology and a pill-happy culture searching for quick fixes for complex mental problems.
The Cabala clearly states, The only good in depression is getting out of depression. Though there is no sin in the Torah for being depressed, yet all bad actions stem from depression – a fundamental desire not to live. In between birth and death is the will to be or not to be.
The Rabbis, 2000 years ago, who affixed the daily prayers, did not require the supplicant to know the meanings of the words other than one sentence: God’s open hand gives sustenance to all will. Will is beyond thought or reason; depression is a cancerous will eating away the soul.
Will surrounds and permeates the body effecting thoughts, moods and actions – when will is gone, life is gone. Shaul, the first appointed King of Israel, was famously depressed, leading him to actions that under minded his kingship and his eventual demise. Dovid was the next king.
Dovid had a very difficult life from beginning to end, but Dovid loved God; he always saw his sins before him and therefore saw the punishments melted out from life as the love of God bringing him closer. Moshiach, who will bring happiness to the world, is destined to come from Dovid.
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