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Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Shavuot count-down: Day 14 of counting the Omer. Using Kabbalistic symbology for counting the Omer - the days between the 2nd night of Pesach and the start of Shavuot - tonight begins the Malchut of Gevurah: Nobility of Discipline. Rabbi Simon Jacobson's meditation for this day of the Omer:
Discipline, like love, must enhance personal dignity. Discipline that breaks a person will backfire. Healthy discipline should bolster self-esteem and help elicit the best in a person; cultivating his sovereignty. Does my discipline cripple the human spirit; does it weaken or strengthen me and others?
We have now moved through all of the combinations of the 7 lower sephirot with the sephira of Gevurah. Tomorrow begins the week of Tiferet.

(More on counting the Omer here)