THE SPIRITUAL BYPASS
Spirituality is not an excuse. It is an obligation.
There is no such thing as a “Spiritual Person” as a category. That is a dangerous modern cliché. There are only two types of people. There is a person who is working on his character. And there is a person who is not.
The Metric
There is a person connected to truth. And there is a person who uses “spiritual language” to bypass responsibility. To bypass fear. To bypass mental difficulty.
Spirituality is not charisma. It is not intuition. It is not visions or channeling. Spirituality is measured by one thing only. Did the person become straighter? More humble? More responsible? More connected?
The Glitch
What you experienced was not just “blind love.” It was a collision with a distortion. When someone uses figures. The dead. Fear. “Messages” that cannot be tested. You must approach this with a level of understanding. Not with wild imagination.
The Source does not speak through fear. The Source does not speak through manipulation. And the Source never speaks by negating the free will of another person.
Anyone who attributes personal decisions to a “vision” in order to avoid bearing responsibility. Is not operating out of Da’at (Knowing).
Light vs. Darkness
The border between spirituality and darkness is simple and sharp. Spirituality strengthens your choice. Darkness weakens it. Spirituality brings you closer to yourself. Darkness causes you to disappear. Spirituality demands internal work. Darkness offers shortcuts in the name of “Knowing.”
The Definition of Love
When a person says “I fell in love.” He is describing a state of blindness. Falling in love belongs to the world of forces. Strong emotion. Attraction. Imagination. Projection. The Da’at—the Knowing—leaves the room. And the person believes what he feels.
That is why blind love cannot see the person standing opposite. It only sees what the heart needs to see.
The Torah does not educate toward “falling in love.” It educates toward Da’at. Da’at is a lucid connection between wisdom and understanding. Between heart and mind. Where the person is present. Seeing. Testing. And not losing himself.
True love is not emotional drift. It is recognition. To see the other exactly as they are. To see yourself exactly as you are. And to choose the connection without canceling your mind.
Where there is Da’at. There is no self-loss. And there is no blindness.
Translated from the Hebrew wisdom of Ruth Kedem.