Missed a few Omer reflections?
I didn’t post all of my Omer reflections through here – looking for some of them? You can find them all here: Rabbi Jonathan’s Spirituality Page Image source: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kerenkeet/omer%20count.jpg
Day 43 of the Omer – kind actions
Chesed in Malchut – kindness and mercy in the dwelling presence of the universe. We want to act, to make a difference. Let us find compassion for our acting – when we act not as well as we would like we can opt to forgive. When we do not act at all let us avoid […]
Missing 36 & 37 of the Omer?
Here are links to the entries that were missed – enjoy! Day 37 of the Omer Day 36 of the Omer
Day 38 of the Omer – higher and lower balance
Tiferet in Yesod – lofty balance of principles in the grounded balance of applications. Keeping high minded ideas of balance and beauty as guides while in the thick of crafting the basics almost requires some cognitive dissonance. Still, the two notions – a balance between intellectual concepts of beauty and a sturdy balance grounded in […]
Day 29 of the Omer – Humility and Compassion
Chesed in Hod – compassion in awe and humility. I find it easy to see compassion coming from our sense of smallness – this allows us to sympathize easily. We must proceed cautiously lest we get swept up in sympathizing and lose our ability to help out. We need compassion for ourselves when in the […]
Day 26 of the Omer – Dependence in Importance
Hod in Netzach – quantum smallness and awe in eternal perpetuation of the self. These ends of the spectrum – humility and ego – depend on each other. All sound thinking, feeling, and acting, relies on balanced and appropriate use of self, sometimes less, sometimes more, and fine tuning that adjustment and its other dimensions […]
Day 24 of the Omer – Self in Communal Balance
Tiferet in Netzach – balanced harmony in the enduring single self. Thinking of our single self at the close of a week when we confront again and again our communal needs to come together – not so easy. To find the balance between our own needs and those of our community requires a sense of […]
Day 22 of the Omer – Overcoming Self With Compassion
Chesed in Netzach – compassionate kindness in eternity of the self. We can try to see the universe as centered on ourselves, we could be the pivot of all existence – this is the essence of Netzach, eternal victory. Today, this week, it takes only a little sympathy and compassion to overwhelm all other sentiments […]
Day 21 of the Omer – Counting is Different Today
Malchut in Tiferet – the active presence of meaning realized in balanced beauty. On this day, conceiving of balanced beauty escapes me. I am stuck in the world of action and tragedy. Tonight, this ex-pat recovering New Yorker is a Bostonian. My heart is broken and all of its pieces are at the finish line. […]
