Daily Meditation: Thursday, November 18, 2010

Sleep - preparing for it as for a journey

11/18/2010

Some people are surprised to see themselves doing things in their dreams that they would be ashamed of doing in the waking state. But there's nothing surprising about that. They do not know that they should prepare for sleep every evening as if for a journey, for as with any journey sleep presents certain risks. It says in the Cabbalah that when people go to sleep an impure spirit latches onto their physical body to fill them with certain feelings and desires. This impure spirit wants to take possession of the sleeping body, because the body has great reserves of strength, which the spirit will be able to use. In order to keep yourself safe from this impure spirit, you must pray for heaven to send you an angel to protect you and take you to the Lord's school, where you will study love and wisdom. Then while you sleep you will always have a guardian to watch over your body and keep it safe from the evil spirit, and in the morning you will return from your journey enlightened and enriched.