Posts Tagged tiferet
Day 45 Counting the Omer 2013 Tiferet she b’Malchut/Shechina
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on May 9, 2013
Harmony within Indwelling Presence
Today is Rosh Chodesh Sivan, the New Moon. Each new moon represents potential, hope, expectation. We are getting close to the fruition of the Omer period, anticipating that which will come on Shavuot. Each year, each month, each week, day and moment is full of revelation. Our job is to be open to see it, honor it, receive it…and then pass it on. Today, we particularly focus on harmony–the complex interplay between individual notes (or lives), which, together, form something completely new and interesting as a result of the interaction. We hold many often conflicting ideas, values and interests simultaneously–the challenge is to recognize the underlying harmony not to be distracted by the apparent disagreements.
Day 38 Counting the Omer 2013 Tiferet she b’Yesod
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on May 2, 2013
Harmony within Foundation
Harmony is a function of more than one factor interacting in a way that enhances the whole. When the factors that influence our lives are in balance, we are more focused, stronger and stand on more stable footing. When our equilibrium is disturbed through challenging life events we could not control, we can find ourselves out of balance. The structures we have carefully constructed from the elements of our lives can become wobbly and unstable. Today we focus on developing and maintaining balance to stabilize our inner structures. Like a highrise building with special foundations characterized by the ability to respond to earthquakes with flexibility, our lives stand on more stable foundations when influenced by balance and harmony.
Day 31 Counting the Omer 2013 Tiferet she b’Hod
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 25, 2013
Harmony within Splendor
The multitude of individual ‘bits’ of beauty are necessary to produce overall splendor. The notes and rhythmic signatures in written music are simple instructions, yet combined and performed, a symphony results. Smiles between strangers can be meaningless by themselves, but combined, can spread joy across a room, or a city.
Today we celebrate the tiny miracles that add up in our world. When we aware of them, we can help spread their effect, contributing to a better world!
Day 21 Counting the Omer 2013 Malchut/Shechina she b’Tiferet
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 15, 2013
Indwelling Presence within Harmony
Today, as we are horrified by the events in Boston, grateful for those who rushed in to care and mourning with families and friends of those dead and injured, we pause. It is hard to remember a bigger picture when faced with anguish and fear, yet, when we can, it helps us heal, each of us connected inexorably, to each other. The Indwelling Presence within the Great Harmony appears in selfless acts, in spontaneous assistance, in the rush to aid and to understand. May all who need comfort find at least some small portion of it today, remembering that we are held in the arms of the Holy One, as we end the week of Harmony and Balance.
In English, the word “Presence” can be taken so many ways–as in ‘aware’=present; as in ‘attending’ = not absent; as in ‘gift’= a present; as in ‘an additional, noticeable energy’= a presence. I was thinking, as this day of the Omer count began, of looking at the word differently: as ‘pre’ ’sense’…before sensation. G!d energy surrounds us, pervades us, dwells within us. It existed, as we are reminded in Adon Olam, before there was a before. The Divine precedes sensation…and then infuses it. It’s everywhere–Ein Od Milvado…there is nothing except this Presence. Today we pause, at the conclusion of the third week of counting the Omer, to recognize how Divinity contributes to our balance, simultaneously supporting and enlivening the beauty of our lives.
Day 20 Counting the Omer Yesod she b’Tiferet
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 14, 2013
Foundation within Harmony
Looking for stability after days of computer, blog, website glitches. Need the steadiness to be the basis of harmony and balance….sometimes the theme of the Omer counting is so well aligned with life!
Today we focus on the relationship between creative energy/generative energy and the beautiful balance that can be created with it, through it. We become supple, flexibly responsive to whatever comes our way.
The intervening days without Omer postings are now part of our collective past! Here’s hoping that the electronic gremlins behave themselves now!!!
Day 16 Counting of the Omer Gevurah she b’Tiferet
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 10, 2013
Discernment within Harmony
Discernment in Gevurah is based on knowing the underlying structures and disciplines upon which to make good judgments. The term ‘halacha’, Jewish law, comes from the Hebrew root “h”"l”"ch” which refers to walking, or ‘the way’. Halacha is the structure which guides decisions and allows people to live together in harmony.
In Navajo tradition, harmony is the natural, balanced state of the world. If a person is ill or if there is trouble in the community, something is assumed to be out of balance. A structured ritual ceremony known as the Blessing Way is performed to restore harmony. Gevurah provides the order that facilitates the return to the natural order of balance, harmony and beauty.
We focus today on the importance of regular practice, of developing structure in our lives which contributes to enjoying a balanced life.
Day 15 Counting the Omer 2013 Chesed she b’Tiferet
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 9, 2013
Lovingkindness within Harmony
This third week of Counting the Omer focuses on Tiferet, the energy of harmony, balance and beauty. Tiferet is like a lens that magnifies the beauty inherent in everything, the dynamic balance that sustains everything.
Today Chesed, Lovingkindness serves as fuel for Tiferet. Imagine the flow of love as the source of balance and harmony in the world. We sense contact with God when we are in awe, encountering unexpected beauty, sweet harmony, and sudden tenderness. Just as Miriam the Prophetess gave the water of life to all who came near her, feeding their deepest needs, the flow of Chesed enters our hearts and feeds our needs, perpetuating our own fundamental and unique harmonies.
Day 10 Counting the Omer 2013 Tiferet she b’Gevurah
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 4, 2013
Harmony within Discernment
Without harmonizing influence, even the most well intentioned discernment can become a source of prejudice and intolerance. Harmony and balance provide stability — think of the music of harmony and balance of dance — together they support the kind of spiritual equilibrium that facilitates wise choices, the actions of Gevurah.
Day 3 of the Omer 2013
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on March 28, 2013
Tiferet she b’Chesed
Harmony/Balance within Lovingkindness
If we think of Chesed as endless flow of endless Love, then Harmony within that flow turns it into melody, the music of compassion. Keeping balance in the complex lives we lead is challenging….we can, today, focus on the availability of the exact amounts of the rights kinds of compassion that will help us readjust to changing realities. Facing tragedies of death or major accidents, challenges of mental illness or chronic health conditions, the demands of dynamic work requirements and the needs of family and friends, we need to keep ourselves in balance. Tiferet she b’Chesed helps us.
DAY 21: Malchut/Shechina she b’Tiferet
Posted by RabbiMin in uncategorized on April 19, 2010
Indwelling Presence within Harmony….In English, the word “Presence” can be taken so many ways–as in ‘aware’=present; as in ‘attending’ = not absent; as in ‘gift’= a present; as in ‘an additional, noticeable energy’= a presence. I was thinking, as this day of the Omer count began, of looking at the word differently: as ‘pre’ ’sense’…before sensation. G!d energy surrounds us, pervades us, dwells within us. It existed, as we are reminded in Adon Olam, before there was a before. The Divine precedes sensation…and then infuses it. It’s everywhere–Ein Od Milvado…there is nothing except this Presence. Today we pause, at the conclusion of the third week of counting the Omer, to recognize how Divinity contributes to our balance, simultaneously supporting and enlivening the beauty of our lives.