The 17th of Tammuz - For Informational Purposes
The 17th of Tammuz (Thursday) is the beginning of what are called ' the negative three weeks' in the Hebrew calendar.
It was during this period that a myriad of disasters befell upon the Jewish people.
I am trying to view it from a different perspective. To keep on viewing it as negative, and to mourn is a paradox. What is necessary to move forward and through this period of intense energy, which is neither positive or negative, it just is, is to transmute that which has happened in a past - a past which is an effect of a causality.
In the quantum world of 11 dimensional space which has nothing to do with time, the continuum in which everything exists at all times; in the myriad of wonder of parallel universes, alternate dimensions and time travel holding on to the negative effect of the causality doesn't make sense. In the realm of the other dimensions, the cause for the events which cause the Jewish People to name this time period as the negative three weeks might be a cause that happens in the future. The simple act of holding on makes it a truth unto itself, reverberating throughout the causality. The train rolling down the tracks with no brakes, no reverse, no twists or turns.
In terms of the letters which contain energy, tav, the last letter of the aleph bet, rules the moon. The 17th of Tammuz is a Full Moon. Tammuz - Cancer is the month of water of water, left column energy, the energy of Binah. The Schechinah is in exile. The tides are the highest at this particular full moon than at any other time during the year. If we start with the hei, the letter for the first month of Nissan, then vav, the letter for the second month, then zayin, the letter for the 3rd month, then chet, which is a combination in form of the vav and the zayin, but also a connected hei, and tav is a dalet with an upside down vav, a synchronistic form becomes revealed. The gematria hei 5 + vav 6 + zayin 7 + chet 8 = 26, which is the gematria for the tetragrammaton, the 4 letter name of the Divine. The 4 letters relate to the four worlds and the sephirot of chochmah, binah, Zeir Anpin and Malchut. Interesting. And that's just the simple gematria. During these three weeks one is not supposed to meditate upon the tetragrammation.
Instead, the gematria of substituting the preceeding letter is used, so the letters of the tetragrammaton, yud -- hei -- vav--hei become tet--dalet--hei--dalet , 9+4+5+4=22, the number of letters in the aleph bet excluding the final soffits. In the form of gematria in which each letter is the number of its place in the aleph bet, tav, the last letter, the ruler of the moon is 22. Just in the simple numbers there is synchronicity.
I don't want to be told that the energy is negative and that I need to mourn for past events for 3 weeks.
I'm not ignoring this energy, because it is definitely manifest. Religion teaches it through dogma and fear. Here is a little hard data.
Synopsis from
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tammuz.html
The 17th day in the Jewish month of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that have befallen our people on this ominous day.
The purpose of such fasts in the Jewish calendar is, according to Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov's Book of Our Heritage, "to awaken hearts towards repentance through recalling our forefathers' misdeeds; misdeeds which led to calamities..."
A Historic Day of Calamity
Going all the way back to Biblical times,
Moses descended Mount Sinai on this day and, upon seeing the Golden Calf broke the first set of Tablets carrying the Ten Commandments (Shemot 32:19, Mishna Taanit 28b).
In the First Temple Era: The priests in the First Temple stopped offering the daily sacrifice on this day (Taanit 28b) due to the shortage of sheep during the siege and the next year 3184 (5186 BCE), the walls of Jerusalem were breached after many months of siege by Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces.
During the period of Roman persecution an idol was placed in the holy sanctuary of the Temple (Melachim II 21:7,Taanit 28b), and the heathen Apostomos, captain of the occupation forces, publicly burned the Torah (Taanit 28b) - both acts considered open blasphemy and desecration. These were followed by Titus and Rome breaching the walls of Jerusalem in 3760 (70 CE) and Pope Gregory IX ordering the confiscation of all manuscripts of the Talmud in 4999 (1239).
In later years this day continued to be a dark one for Jews. In 1391, more than 4,000 Jews were killed in Toledo and Jaen, Spain and in 4319 (1559) the Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted.
The Kovno ghetto was liquidated on this day in 5704 (1944) and in 5730 (1970) Libya ordered the confiscation of Jewish property.
Other interesting occurrences on this day include Noach sending out the first dove to see if the Flood waters had receded, (Bereishit 8:8) in 1650 (2100 BCE); Moshe Rabbeinu destroying the golden calf, (Shemot 32:20, Seder Olam 6, Taanit 30b - Rashi) and then ascending back up Har Sinai for the second time where he spent the next forty days pleading for forgiveness for the sin of the golden calf, (Shemot 33:11, Rashi).
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_of_Tammuz
Seventeenth of Tammuz (שבעה עשר בתמוז Hebrew: Shiva Assar BeTammuz) is the seventeenth day on the Hebrew month of Tammuz. It is a half-day (dawn to dusk) fast in Judaism.
Background
The Mishnah (Taanit 4:6) lists five calamities that befell the Jewish people on this date:
Moses broke the two tablets of stone on Mount Sinai;
The daily korban tamid ceased to be brought during the Siege of Jerusalem, as no more sacrificial animals were available;
The walls of Jerusalem were breached, which proceeded to the destruction of the Second Temple;
Prior to the Bar Kokhba's revolt, Roman military leader Apostamos burned a Torah scroll;
An idol was erected in the Second Temple.
Place among the fasts
It is the second in the Four Fasts commemorating the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish Exile. It is preceded by the fast of Tenth of Tevet seven months earlier, begins the three weeks before full-day fast of the Ninth of Av. The last of the four fasts is the Fast of Gedalia immediately following Rosh Hashanah.
Bein hametzarim
The three weeks between the Seventeenth of Tamuz and the Ninth of Av are in themselves known as the Three Weeks, also known as bein hametzarim ("between the straits"), of a mounting sense of mourning for Jerusalem's and the Temples' destructions.
The Three Weeks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three Weeks are days of mourning commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem within Judaism. Jewish law forbids taking a haircut or shaving or listening to music during this time. No Jewish marriages are allowed during these three weeks because that would involve too much joy at a time when Jews are traditionally supposed to mourn for the destruction of their ancient temples.
The three weeks start on the seventeenth day of the Jewish month of Tammuz — the Seventeenth of Tammuz — and end on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av — on Tisha B'Av. Both of those days are fast days.
Nine days prior to Tisha B'Av are The Nine Days of more intense mourning. During this time, animal meat is not eaten (fish is permitted), wine is not consumed, freshly laundered clothes are not worn and, under Ashkenazi custom, warm baths are not taken. Sephardic tradition adheres to the latter of these observances, regarding garments and bathing, starting the Sunday before Tisha B'Av and dispenses of them on years when the fast falls on Sunday.
Many congregations refrain from meat until the day after the fast.
That's the general data. I don't do the 17th of Tammuz fast, although I do the 9th of Av fast.
It is the start of a major energy shift during which everything is vulernable.
During my college years, my favourite line was from "The Seagull", a play by Anton Chekov, a Russian. " I am in mourning for my life".
We need to shake off this shite. Take responsibility for our place in the cosmos.
I'm not just impoverished intellegensia, I'm impoverished existential intellegensia. LOL :P
In whatever way, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
By the way, did I mention that Bruce Springsteen didn't play the stage when I saw him up in Jersey?
Nothing is constant, everything is constant.
Nothing is change, everything is change.
We are nothing, we are everything.
The planet blooms forth.
The 8th sephirot counting upwards from Malchut is Binah. The waters of life flow from Binah.
Everything is connected.
Shalom.
\\ //
It was during this period that a myriad of disasters befell upon the Jewish people.
I am trying to view it from a different perspective. To keep on viewing it as negative, and to mourn is a paradox. What is necessary to move forward and through this period of intense energy, which is neither positive or negative, it just is, is to transmute that which has happened in a past - a past which is an effect of a causality.
In the quantum world of 11 dimensional space which has nothing to do with time, the continuum in which everything exists at all times; in the myriad of wonder of parallel universes, alternate dimensions and time travel holding on to the negative effect of the causality doesn't make sense. In the realm of the other dimensions, the cause for the events which cause the Jewish People to name this time period as the negative three weeks might be a cause that happens in the future. The simple act of holding on makes it a truth unto itself, reverberating throughout the causality. The train rolling down the tracks with no brakes, no reverse, no twists or turns.
In terms of the letters which contain energy, tav, the last letter of the aleph bet, rules the moon. The 17th of Tammuz is a Full Moon. Tammuz - Cancer is the month of water of water, left column energy, the energy of Binah. The Schechinah is in exile. The tides are the highest at this particular full moon than at any other time during the year. If we start with the hei, the letter for the first month of Nissan, then vav, the letter for the second month, then zayin, the letter for the 3rd month, then chet, which is a combination in form of the vav and the zayin, but also a connected hei, and tav is a dalet with an upside down vav, a synchronistic form becomes revealed. The gematria hei 5 + vav 6 + zayin 7 + chet 8 = 26, which is the gematria for the tetragrammaton, the 4 letter name of the Divine. The 4 letters relate to the four worlds and the sephirot of chochmah, binah, Zeir Anpin and Malchut. Interesting. And that's just the simple gematria. During these three weeks one is not supposed to meditate upon the tetragrammation.
Instead, the gematria of substituting the preceeding letter is used, so the letters of the tetragrammaton, yud -- hei -- vav--hei become tet--dalet--hei--dalet , 9+4+5+4=22, the number of letters in the aleph bet excluding the final soffits. In the form of gematria in which each letter is the number of its place in the aleph bet, tav, the last letter, the ruler of the moon is 22. Just in the simple numbers there is synchronicity.
I don't want to be told that the energy is negative and that I need to mourn for past events for 3 weeks.
I'm not ignoring this energy, because it is definitely manifest. Religion teaches it through dogma and fear. Here is a little hard data.
Synopsis from
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tammuz.html
The 17th day in the Jewish month of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that have befallen our people on this ominous day.
The purpose of such fasts in the Jewish calendar is, according to Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov's Book of Our Heritage, "to awaken hearts towards repentance through recalling our forefathers' misdeeds; misdeeds which led to calamities..."
A Historic Day of Calamity
Going all the way back to Biblical times,
Moses descended Mount Sinai on this day and, upon seeing the Golden Calf broke the first set of Tablets carrying the Ten Commandments (Shemot 32:19, Mishna Taanit 28b).
In the First Temple Era: The priests in the First Temple stopped offering the daily sacrifice on this day (Taanit 28b) due to the shortage of sheep during the siege and the next year 3184 (5186 BCE), the walls of Jerusalem were breached after many months of siege by Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces.
During the period of Roman persecution an idol was placed in the holy sanctuary of the Temple (Melachim II 21:7,Taanit 28b), and the heathen Apostomos, captain of the occupation forces, publicly burned the Torah (Taanit 28b) - both acts considered open blasphemy and desecration. These were followed by Titus and Rome breaching the walls of Jerusalem in 3760 (70 CE) and Pope Gregory IX ordering the confiscation of all manuscripts of the Talmud in 4999 (1239).
In later years this day continued to be a dark one for Jews. In 1391, more than 4,000 Jews were killed in Toledo and Jaen, Spain and in 4319 (1559) the Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted.
The Kovno ghetto was liquidated on this day in 5704 (1944) and in 5730 (1970) Libya ordered the confiscation of Jewish property.
Other interesting occurrences on this day include Noach sending out the first dove to see if the Flood waters had receded, (Bereishit 8:8) in 1650 (2100 BCE); Moshe Rabbeinu destroying the golden calf, (Shemot 32:20, Seder Olam 6, Taanit 30b - Rashi) and then ascending back up Har Sinai for the second time where he spent the next forty days pleading for forgiveness for the sin of the golden calf, (Shemot 33:11, Rashi).
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_of_Tammuz
Seventeenth of Tammuz (שבעה עשר בתמוז Hebrew: Shiva Assar BeTammuz) is the seventeenth day on the Hebrew month of Tammuz. It is a half-day (dawn to dusk) fast in Judaism.
Background
The Mishnah (Taanit 4:6) lists five calamities that befell the Jewish people on this date:
Moses broke the two tablets of stone on Mount Sinai;
The daily korban tamid ceased to be brought during the Siege of Jerusalem, as no more sacrificial animals were available;
The walls of Jerusalem were breached, which proceeded to the destruction of the Second Temple;
Prior to the Bar Kokhba's revolt, Roman military leader Apostamos burned a Torah scroll;
An idol was erected in the Second Temple.
Place among the fasts
It is the second in the Four Fasts commemorating the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish Exile. It is preceded by the fast of Tenth of Tevet seven months earlier, begins the three weeks before full-day fast of the Ninth of Av. The last of the four fasts is the Fast of Gedalia immediately following Rosh Hashanah.
Bein hametzarim
The three weeks between the Seventeenth of Tamuz and the Ninth of Av are in themselves known as the Three Weeks, also known as bein hametzarim ("between the straits"), of a mounting sense of mourning for Jerusalem's and the Temples' destructions.
The Three Weeks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three Weeks are days of mourning commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem within Judaism. Jewish law forbids taking a haircut or shaving or listening to music during this time. No Jewish marriages are allowed during these three weeks because that would involve too much joy at a time when Jews are traditionally supposed to mourn for the destruction of their ancient temples.
The three weeks start on the seventeenth day of the Jewish month of Tammuz — the Seventeenth of Tammuz — and end on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av — on Tisha B'Av. Both of those days are fast days.
Nine days prior to Tisha B'Av are The Nine Days of more intense mourning. During this time, animal meat is not eaten (fish is permitted), wine is not consumed, freshly laundered clothes are not worn and, under Ashkenazi custom, warm baths are not taken. Sephardic tradition adheres to the latter of these observances, regarding garments and bathing, starting the Sunday before Tisha B'Av and dispenses of them on years when the fast falls on Sunday.
Many congregations refrain from meat until the day after the fast.
That's the general data. I don't do the 17th of Tammuz fast, although I do the 9th of Av fast.
It is the start of a major energy shift during which everything is vulernable.
During my college years, my favourite line was from "The Seagull", a play by Anton Chekov, a Russian. " I am in mourning for my life".
We need to shake off this shite. Take responsibility for our place in the cosmos.
I'm not just impoverished intellegensia, I'm impoverished existential intellegensia. LOL :P
In whatever way, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
By the way, did I mention that Bruce Springsteen didn't play the stage when I saw him up in Jersey?
Nothing is constant, everything is constant.
Nothing is change, everything is change.
We are nothing, we are everything.
The planet blooms forth.
The 8th sephirot counting upwards from Malchut is Binah. The waters of life flow from Binah.
Everything is connected.
Shalom.
\\ //
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