Chag Sameach Shavuot
Today is day 49 of the Omer. 7 x 7. Seven times seven days.
I didn't miss a one, doing the count with consciousness and not just by blind rote.
B'H.
Shavuot is the celebration of the giving of Torah.
It is a Major Holiday.
The tradition is to read the Megillah Ruth- The Book of Ruth - and to stay up all night and study Torah.
The energy is that of the Hebrew Letters formed into words formed into consciousness with Torah.
In order for the or yasher and or chozer (see post Sivan-Gemini) to manifest in the physical realm the receiving of Torah must occur. It is like an energy re-enactment.
The energy must be received again and again. That's the quantum part. Torah has to be received. If there is no vessel to receive it, then the energy contained within her will zap back to or yasher. And of course, it is all about the feminine energy. The masculine cannot become manifest without the feminine. The Book of Ruth is read. Seven times seven plus one.
Fifty gates of Binah. The Waters of Life Flow from Binah.
'Tis all About Binah.
This morning I saw a mini rainbow in a little cloud. My next door neighbor Asha witnessed it with me. The cloud shone pink, then a green part to the right of the pink part became visible. Then the pink changed to orange and yellow, and the green changed to blue and violet, and then the violet disappeared. I figure we were the only two beings on the planet witnessing this particular phenomonon at that particular time. Fastinatingly amazing.
Rabbi Shimon says in the Zohar that whoever sees a rainbow in the sky must recite the blessing 'Blessed be he who remembers the convenant'. I said the blessing, then sang
'God gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
No More Water But Fire Next Time
Pharoah's army got drownd ed
O Mary don't you weep etc {Springsteen}'
Yup. In my nightgown. In front of the house. Very quiet street. Nobody noticed.
.....
Torah is fire. Black Fire (the letters) on White Fire ( the scroll).
We've been prepped to receive since Pesach. I'll do my part because I do believe that Torah is alive. I'm ready to receive Her energy again. I do dig the time travel part of it. I believe that we are converging upon the singularity. The parallel universes, the parallel dimensions, the convergence of the continuum onto itself is upon us. I keep zapping back and forth, and so do the cats. The same affect is occurring with people I speak to. They always say, Mercury must be in retrograde. Funny, isn't it.
Taking the religion out of it is difficult. You need to keep to the order of the ritual because it exists, but the ritual isn't what you want to connect to.
Here is the order of the ritual from Chabad :
The Talmud relates that when G-d came to give the Torah to the People of Israel in the early morning of Sivan 6 He found them sleeping.
(the Chassidic masters explain that this was an attempt to connect to their subconscious, transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom).
To rectify this lapse, we spend the entire first night of Shavuot (which begins at nightfall tonight) studying Torah.
The traditional Tikkun Leil Shavout ("Rectification for Shavuot Night") study program includes the opening and closing verses of each book of the Written Torah (Tanach),
the entire Book of Ruth
the opening and closing sections of each tractate of the Talmud,
of the 613 mitzvot,
and selected readings from the Zohar and other Kabbalistic works.
I don't have all that. And I don't have a Torah Scroll either.
The energy exists in the continuum which is not time, but constant manifestation of creation. The sentence 'the masters explain that finding them sleeping was an attempt to connect to their subconscious transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom' kind of says it all for me. The religious tell you to stay up all night. But methinks you need to be in that state that is called sleep so that your own supernal ness can receive the energy without brain fy. I do think that. They tend to twist things to their own end, don't they. They being those who rule over the rules and say that you have to do it their way. When you are in a state of transcendent sleep, your soul connects with the Divine. On one hand, the kabbalistic sages teach that during sleep the soul ascends to Gan Eden to be refreshed by connection to Hashem, and on the other hand, they teach that sleep is one sixtieth of death. Paradox. I'm going with my instincts on this one. Study AND sleep. HA!!!
Torah is feminine. Women are Torah. I'm going to open myself up to receive the energy which is being given this eve. Literally it is the festival of the first fruits of the harvest. Celebrate the first fruits. That's always a good thing to do.
Rabbi G says :
"And the whole people saw the voices and the torches and the shofar blast and the smoking mountain" (Exodus 20:15). In Kabbalah we are taught that the four levels of the peoples' experience :
seeing the voices
the torches
the shofar blast
the smoking mountain
correspond to the consummate experience of the four components of the four letts of G-d's Name : chochmah, binah, tiferet, malchut......
When we stay up on Shavuot night we are all able, each and every one of us on his or her own level, to re-experience the giving of the Torah at Sinai.
{yeah - we get to time travel}
The mystery of the Ineffable Name becomes engraved on the essence of our souls. In all faces of our lives we become able to experience the absolute unity, the return of our finite consciousness to Infinite Light....."
Rabbi G manages to pull the quantum aspects and the religious aspects together.
I remember this, but I can't find the source. Sounds like the Ari.
Whoever completes the count and participates in Shavuot is blessed to attend the mating of the Nukva and Binah as hand maidens to the Bride and Groom.
May we all be blessed by the Light of the Torah and may the spark that ignites our love compassion and sense of peace and unity become fully aglow as we receive this gift from the Soul of the Universe B'H.
It is also taught that Shavuot is the holiday of immortality. By knowing Torah, you become one with her, thereby accessing the immortality of your soul. Certain genres of kabbalah say that when you stay up all night on Shavuot you are made immortal until Rosh Hashana, i.e. you cannot die for that period of time. I don't have any other data to back it up except that I know it is taught.
Thin line between religion and spirituality.
I'm going to do Megillah Ruth with my friend Rut' in Minneapolis over the phone. We have the English and Hebrew links.
I think I would like to be in the state of inbetween ness rather than forcing myself to stay awake all night. I have done that twice. One experience was wonderful, the other horrid.
When the 50th gate of Binah is open it is not easy on the physical body. Time travelling is fun. It will happen anyway.
I like the celebration of the energy.
Candelighting 8:00 PM
Chag Sameach
{Happy Birthday Batsheva Bloch :*}
I didn't miss a one, doing the count with consciousness and not just by blind rote.
B'H.
Shavuot is the celebration of the giving of Torah.
It is a Major Holiday.
The tradition is to read the Megillah Ruth- The Book of Ruth - and to stay up all night and study Torah.
The energy is that of the Hebrew Letters formed into words formed into consciousness with Torah.
In order for the or yasher and or chozer (see post Sivan-Gemini) to manifest in the physical realm the receiving of Torah must occur. It is like an energy re-enactment.
The energy must be received again and again. That's the quantum part. Torah has to be received. If there is no vessel to receive it, then the energy contained within her will zap back to or yasher. And of course, it is all about the feminine energy. The masculine cannot become manifest without the feminine. The Book of Ruth is read. Seven times seven plus one.
Fifty gates of Binah. The Waters of Life Flow from Binah.
'Tis all About Binah.
This morning I saw a mini rainbow in a little cloud. My next door neighbor Asha witnessed it with me. The cloud shone pink, then a green part to the right of the pink part became visible. Then the pink changed to orange and yellow, and the green changed to blue and violet, and then the violet disappeared. I figure we were the only two beings on the planet witnessing this particular phenomonon at that particular time. Fastinatingly amazing.
Rabbi Shimon says in the Zohar that whoever sees a rainbow in the sky must recite the blessing 'Blessed be he who remembers the convenant'. I said the blessing, then sang
'God gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
No More Water But Fire Next Time
Pharoah's army got drownd ed
O Mary don't you weep etc {Springsteen}'
Yup. In my nightgown. In front of the house. Very quiet street. Nobody noticed.
.....
Torah is fire. Black Fire (the letters) on White Fire ( the scroll).
We've been prepped to receive since Pesach. I'll do my part because I do believe that Torah is alive. I'm ready to receive Her energy again. I do dig the time travel part of it. I believe that we are converging upon the singularity. The parallel universes, the parallel dimensions, the convergence of the continuum onto itself is upon us. I keep zapping back and forth, and so do the cats. The same affect is occurring with people I speak to. They always say, Mercury must be in retrograde. Funny, isn't it.
Taking the religion out of it is difficult. You need to keep to the order of the ritual because it exists, but the ritual isn't what you want to connect to.
Here is the order of the ritual from Chabad :
The Talmud relates that when G-d came to give the Torah to the People of Israel in the early morning of Sivan 6 He found them sleeping.
(the Chassidic masters explain that this was an attempt to connect to their subconscious, transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom).
To rectify this lapse, we spend the entire first night of Shavuot (which begins at nightfall tonight) studying Torah.
The traditional Tikkun Leil Shavout ("Rectification for Shavuot Night") study program includes the opening and closing verses of each book of the Written Torah (Tanach),
the entire Book of Ruth
the opening and closing sections of each tractate of the Talmud,
of the 613 mitzvot,
and selected readings from the Zohar and other Kabbalistic works.
I don't have all that. And I don't have a Torah Scroll either.
The energy exists in the continuum which is not time, but constant manifestation of creation. The sentence 'the masters explain that finding them sleeping was an attempt to connect to their subconscious transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom' kind of says it all for me. The religious tell you to stay up all night. But methinks you need to be in that state that is called sleep so that your own supernal ness can receive the energy without brain fy. I do think that. They tend to twist things to their own end, don't they. They being those who rule over the rules and say that you have to do it their way. When you are in a state of transcendent sleep, your soul connects with the Divine. On one hand, the kabbalistic sages teach that during sleep the soul ascends to Gan Eden to be refreshed by connection to Hashem, and on the other hand, they teach that sleep is one sixtieth of death. Paradox. I'm going with my instincts on this one. Study AND sleep. HA!!!
Torah is feminine. Women are Torah. I'm going to open myself up to receive the energy which is being given this eve. Literally it is the festival of the first fruits of the harvest. Celebrate the first fruits. That's always a good thing to do.
Rabbi G says :
"And the whole people saw the voices and the torches and the shofar blast and the smoking mountain" (Exodus 20:15). In Kabbalah we are taught that the four levels of the peoples' experience :
seeing the voices
the torches
the shofar blast
the smoking mountain
correspond to the consummate experience of the four components of the four letts of G-d's Name : chochmah, binah, tiferet, malchut......
When we stay up on Shavuot night we are all able, each and every one of us on his or her own level, to re-experience the giving of the Torah at Sinai.
{yeah - we get to time travel}
The mystery of the Ineffable Name becomes engraved on the essence of our souls. In all faces of our lives we become able to experience the absolute unity, the return of our finite consciousness to Infinite Light....."
Rabbi G manages to pull the quantum aspects and the religious aspects together.
I remember this, but I can't find the source. Sounds like the Ari.
Whoever completes the count and participates in Shavuot is blessed to attend the mating of the Nukva and Binah as hand maidens to the Bride and Groom.
May we all be blessed by the Light of the Torah and may the spark that ignites our love compassion and sense of peace and unity become fully aglow as we receive this gift from the Soul of the Universe B'H.
It is also taught that Shavuot is the holiday of immortality. By knowing Torah, you become one with her, thereby accessing the immortality of your soul. Certain genres of kabbalah say that when you stay up all night on Shavuot you are made immortal until Rosh Hashana, i.e. you cannot die for that period of time. I don't have any other data to back it up except that I know it is taught.
Thin line between religion and spirituality.
I'm going to do Megillah Ruth with my friend Rut' in Minneapolis over the phone. We have the English and Hebrew links.
I think I would like to be in the state of inbetween ness rather than forcing myself to stay awake all night. I have done that twice. One experience was wonderful, the other horrid.
When the 50th gate of Binah is open it is not easy on the physical body. Time travelling is fun. It will happen anyway.
I like the celebration of the energy.
Candelighting 8:00 PM
Chag Sameach
{Happy Birthday Batsheva Bloch :*}
posted by VickeB | 2:07 PM
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Dig the time on the post babe.
mini rainbows
three's
and
sevenses
hmmmm
B"H
Sivan 3, 5766 * May 30, 2006
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C H A S S I D I C S T O R Y
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Elijah the Prophet in Minsk
By: Yitzchak Buxbaum
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A chassid went to the Baal Shem Tov in Medzibuz and said, "Rebbe, I want to see Elijah the Prophet."
"It's simple," said the Baal Shem. "I'll tell you what to do. Get two boxes and fill one with food and the other with children's clothes. Then, before Rosh Hashanah, travel to Minsk. On the outskirts of town, right before where the forest begins, is a dilapidated house. Find that house, but don't knock on the door immediately; stand there for a while and listen. Then, shortly before candle lighting time at sunset, knock on the door and ask for hospitality."
The chassid went home and told his wife he would be away for the holiday. "How can you leave your family?" she said. "The children want their father to take them to the synagogue!" He told her, "I have a once in a lifetime chance to see Elijah the Prophet!" Finally, she agreed that it was something that he could not pass up.
So he went and did as the Baal Shem Tov told him. He filled the parcels with food and clothing and went to Minsk, where he found the broken-down house at the edge of town. He arrived shortly before evening and stood in front of the door, listening. Inside, he heard children crying, "Mommy, we're hungry. And it's yom tov and we don't even have decent clothes to wear!" He heard the mother answer, "Children, trust in G-d. He'll send Elijah the Prophet to bring you everything you need!"
Then the chassid knocked on the door. When the woman opened it, he asked if he could stay with them for the holiday. "How can I welcome you when I don't have any food in the house!" she said. "Don't worry," he said, "I have enough food for all of us." He came in, opened the box, gave the children the food, and they ate. Then he opened the other box and the children all took clothes for themselves, this one a shirt, that one a jacket, the other one a hat. He was there for two days, waiting to see Elijah the Prophet. He did not even sleep. How could he sleep? How often do you get a chance to see Elijah the Prophet? But he saw no one.
So he returned to the Baal Shem Tov and said, "Master, I did not see Elijah the Prophet!" "Did you do everything I told you?" asked the Baal Shem Tov. "I did!" he said. "And you didn't see him?" "No, Rebbe." "Are you sure?" "Yes, Rebbe! I didn't see him!" "Then you'll have to return for Yom Kippur," said the Baal Shem Tov. "Go back before Yom Kippur, with a box of food, to the same house. Again, be sure to arrive an hour before sunset, and don't knock immediately. Wait for a while and just stand in front of the door, listening."
The chassid went back to his wife and told her he would be away for Yom Kippur. "How can you leave your children again?" she asked. "But the Baal Shem Tov says I'll be able to see Elijah the Prophet, like one of the great tzaddikim!" he said, "How can I not go?" His wife agreed that it was worth going away for two or three days if he could see Elijah the Prophet.
So he went back to Minsk before Yom Kippur. This time, he went earlier and stood in front of the door, listening. Inside he heard children crying, "Mommy, we're hungry! We haven't eaten the whole day! How can we fast for Yom Kippur?" "Children!" said the mother. "Do you remember you were crying before Rosh Hashanah that you had no food or clothes? And I told you, 'Trust in G-d! He'll send Elijah the Prophet, who'll bring you food and clothing and everything else you need!' Wasn't I right? Didn't Elijah come and bring you food and clothing? He stayed with us for two days! Now you're crying again that you're hungry. I promise you that Elijah will come now, too, and bring you food!" Then the chasid understood what his master, the Baal Shem Tov had meant. And he knocked on the door.
- Yitzchak Buxbaum is the author of The Light and Fire of The Baal Shem Tov.
Shams of Tabriz: To me came the Sound incomparable
Shams of Tabriz quoted by Julian P. Johnson
in, With A Great Master In India
To me came the Sound incomparable,
which comes neither from within
nor from without;
Neither does it come from the left,
nor from the right,
Nor from the back,
nor from the front.
You will ask, then,
whence does it come?
It comes from the direction
you are seeking to go.
You will ask, then,
which way shall I face?
The side from which
the bridegroom cometh.
That direction from which
the parched fish comes to life
with the waters of immortality;
That direction whence the hand of Moses
became bright like the shining moon.
The direction whence ripeness
comes to fruit;
The direction from which stones
become diamonds.
Be silent and listen
to the Five Sounds from Heaven.
The Heaven which is beyond
all senses and directions.
Every moment of life this wondrous Sound
reaches down from the Courts of Heaven.
Fortunate above all the children of men
is he who hears its enchanting melodies.
B"H
The Process
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Torah is not about getting to the truth. When you are immersed in Torah, even while pondering the question, even while struggling to make sense of it all, you are at truth already.
Torah is about being truth.
B"H
Interface
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Torah is the interface between the Infinite and creation. On the outside, it speaks the language of humankind. On the inside is depth without end.
Grasp either end and you have nothing. Grasp both and you have G-d Himself.
B"H
Talking to Himself
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He talks with Himself, entertained by His own thoughts. The thoughts imply a background, which is the world. But the Torah, those are the thoughts themselves.
And we? Our souls are the self with whom He speaks.
Very well done. Reading the post helped me to put everything into proper perspective.
You are a good researcher wic.
Thanks.
You're Welcome
Chag Sameach.
Chag Sameach.
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