Healing with The Ibn Ezra

Does studying and keepping the Torah affect our bodies? Yes, Says the R. Avraham ibn Ezra (Shmos 23,25.)The human body is a part of the Lower World. At te time of birth, or even earlier at conception, the person's basic physical and emotional temperment is determined according to the astrological factors of the time. After that th e person's destiny is played according the temperment he received. Ther is however a way out of the limits of his fate. The soul and the mind are not members of the Lower World, the soul come from the Higher World and is lowered into the body. The studying and the doing of the Torah invigorates the powers of the soul so that it dominates the body. This domination is a compassionate one, the soul transforms the body and makes is more like the soul. This raises it above the predetermination of the Lower World, this means that if, for example, the Lower World caused the body to be weak and unhealthy, the soul' s transformation can nullify that by bringing the body stregnth from a higher source.