"When a person is in a coma, we feel a deep sense of pity, not because that person is suffering, but because that condition is a degradation of someone who once could act, and now cannot.
The spiritual degradation of working far below capacity should engender the same feeling of pity.
A human being has a huge spiritual potential.
When such a creature lives life at a much lower level, it is not sinful—it is just a pity."
–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
From Simple Words by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
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