I have to remark here that I increasingly have come to understand the purpose of tzitzis in your daily wear.
I must remark that a few weeks ago, I went to a grocery store in the evening when it was getting dark and did not have my tzitzis under my shirt.
I must say that I knew immediately that I was in for a bad ride.
I will tell you this.
There is more to tzitzis than just a garment that you wear to identify yourself as a jew.
These are a scientifically spiritually mystical implement that a religiously ascribed Jew must definately incorporate into his garb.
I felt that when I was walking through the grocery store without my tzitzis that I was being crevassed by many of the persons in the store. This may sound like a 'delusional' attribution, but I insist that if you understand the light of Israel, you will understand what happens in a situation where a man has no protection in a market place or other place of commerce.
Tzitzis are a protective measure against the heresy of the counter culture that exists in the non jewish world as well as those who are jewish and do not keep our mitzvahs. This is how it works.
There is a counter culture which does not have the light of Israel. When you are in a place such as a market place which is dominated by the mindset of give and take, there is a give and take experience where someone sees your light and their mind and being wants to take it. True I am convinced that noone would realize this experience and noone would admit that they secretly want to have the Light of Israel, but I profess that if you are in that situation, you will soon see that your light is not protected.
I found that walking through the store and especially in front of a section which sold items for consumption, that I was daunted by the insincerity of others who are not Jewish and have no commitment to the light and Torah that we must bring ourselves to Honor, Learn from and Strenthen in our lives. This may seem trite or trivial, but in the case that I found myself, with each person I walked past who may have felt my presence whereby hearing my voice or noticing something about my presence, I was eviscerated of my own intensity of the Light of Torah in their presence without my tzitzis to protect my neshama and chaya (part of my spiritual soul). So suffice to say, it is clearly not a life threatening experience, but it is a very harrowing and troubling experience.
I have not had this experience before and now, I will not let that happen again.
This was remided when I went home, but I felt devoid of the light and coupling of my own life to my own light that I had previously felt.
It quickly occurred to me that the way to keep my light intense and keep my life and light coupled together was to put on tefillin. One can not do this until the morning.
When I got home, I felt devoid of this and I was fortunate that I eventually laid down on the couch and drifted into a light twilight sleep. In this twilight sleep, I dreamed that I was putting on my tefillin and I admit when I awoke, I felt about 85% restored to my usual intensity of soul and light.
Of course, it was not until the following morning that I was able to "resync" and put on tefillin.
All is better and fine.
Though I realize that most who read this account will try to ascribe 'non-sensical' thinking and delusional/psychotic feelings and thought to my account. I will tell you that the tzitzis are truly protective. Perhaps it was more intense as this was happening in the evening after dark.
It is written that evil propegates after dark and into the night time.
For this reason, one can not put on tefillin when it is dark outside.
So I see this as a major learning experience and that I must now realize that the tzitzis which I wear are not just to fulfill a commandment but also to protect my health and well being.
I am sure that this is novel concepts, though there are clearly a small part of the Jewish people who wear tzitzis.
Clearly tzitzis are not for women. Women do not put on tefillin and their light is based on their own home and their relationships with the men in their lives who have a light that is given by Torah and by putting on tefillin and the like.
I admit that most jewish men will not feel this experience in any way. But if they are men who put on tefillin once in a while, they will indeed in my beliefs possibly endure the same experience. I do not think I am much different than the rest, but I may notice it more perhaps because I am beginning to be sensitive to this type of experience.
So thus, if you are a jewish male and you put on tefillin once a week or more or less, you owe it to yourself to wear tzitzis most of the time. At home you are going to be ok in my beliefs without tzitzis, but if you go out to town or to the market, you need to place them. I do not know if others have had similar experience and would be interested in others replies if they are ones who keep this commandment or at least put on phylacteries (tefillin).
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