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Secret of Brit Book -
Chapter 3: Guarding the Brit
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Written by Michael
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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
A person shouldn’t think that he is wiser than the Torah and the great Talmudic rabbis who labored to explain the depth and wisdom of Jewish Law. If he says, “I go to the beach and the movies all the time, and nothing happens to me,” he is tragically mistaken. Gazing at attractive women, whether at the beach, the movies, in provocative magazines, or on the street, causes more damage to the spiritual world of a Jew than eating forbidden foods such as pork. Eating non-kosher foods pollutes the nefesh, the lower physical soul of a man. Gazing at women, however, pollutes the neshama, the Divine soul itself. In doing so, it damages the flow of Divine blessing emanating from the highest spiritual realms.
 The eyes are the windows of the soul. The holiness of a Jew is dependent on the degree to which he guards his eyes from looking at forbidden images. When a man sees an immodestly dressed woman or an erotic photograph, his desire is aroused. Automatically, his spiritual world is polluted. Automatically, a soul is released from his brain and joined with a seed of seminal fluid. If he does not sense the spiritual shock to his being, it is because his soul has already become darkened and dulled by his habitual mistakes.
“The moment a man gazes upon a forbidden image, or at a woman whom he is not permitted to look at, a large and frightful kleipah is created by this, along with an evil spirit, each time he looks. Resulting from this, when he has a sexual thought, with every fantasy he violates the Torah prohibition, “And you shall guard yourself from everything evil.” All the more so if, G-d forbid, this thought brings him to a sexual transgression.” (Taharat HaKodesh, Ch. 3)
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 September 2006 )
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