Les Psaumes 1:1 Cabale : Sha'arei Kedusha

Levity is one of the four classes of traits that prevent a person from receiving the countenance of the Indwelling Presence of HaShem-יהו״ה, blessed is He – the Shechinah.⁵³¹Talmud Bavli, Sotah 42a Our sages, of blessed memory, stated,⁵³²Talmud Bavli, Avodah Zarah 18b “Whoever acts with levity falls into purgatory (Gehinnom).” Likewise, our sages, of blessed memory, stated⁵³³Mishnah Avot 3:2 that even if a person sits idly and not engaging in Torah study, it is considered as if he is sitting with the frivolous who have contempt for Torah, as it states,⁵³⁴Psalms 1:1 “Praiseworthy is the man who did not walk in the counsel of the wicked and did not stand in the path of the sinful and did not sit in the gathering of the frivolous.” The very next verse continues and states,⁵³⁵Psalms 1:2 “But his desire is in the Torah of HaShem-יהו״ה, and in His Torah he meditates day and night.” It continues,⁵³⁶Psalms 1:3-4 “He shall be like a tree planted alongside brooks of water, that yields its fruit in its season and whose leaf never withers; and everything that he does will succeed. Not so the wicked; Rather they are like the chaff that the wind drives away etc.”