cordnoy wrote on 23 Dec 2016 18:22:
Shlomo24 wrote on 23 Dec 2016 16:39:
I know that I used to think that spirituality was a feeling. I got a clean feeling from going to the mik and I thought that I felt holy. I don't believe that one can feel holiness or spirituality. Maybe a kabbalist but not me. If I blindfolded someone and put his nose an inch from the kosel he wouldn't be able to tell. So when people claim they feel spiritual I get kinda nervous.
II have argued this exact point many times.
However, I must say that it is perhaps due to my low level. I'd assume that the higher one climbs, the more he can "feel" things at different times and locations.
May we all be zoche.
Amen.
I also think that, the closer you get to Hashem, the more you'll feel the "spirituality", which I believe is just a greater concretising of Hashem's will. That you can feel the effect
mitzvos do. And the blemish that
aveiros do. I'm still numb to all of it. So I have to practice
recovery first. Be a good husband, not live a double life. Things even the
goyim consider bad. Even
they can see the effects.
r' Noah Weinberg in his 49 ways, on Aish, also describes this false spirituality. When someone told him he went to Israel and didn't feel anything, so he responded:
"What did you expect? Angels to fly out of the alleyways and accompany you to the Kosel with trumpets!?"
What is spirituality?
Mikveh, Tumah is a
metzius. A woman is no less a woman if she is in
Niddah. Just some practical ramifications, such as not eating
Kodshim. But does it change
her? NO!
And Dov writes this, too. I don't remember which article. But he describes a person who used
Mikvah and
Knasim ONLY... and he describes that he STILL only uses
Mikveh and
Knasim.... While sinking lower and lower into the depths of sin.
Because he's not actually working on
HIMSELF. Please. PLEASE do not get sucked up in that illusion. For your (future?) family's sake!!
I know I did. It's a dirty feeling. No matter how many
mikvehs you visit.
