Kesher Talk

Shavuot count-down: Day 16 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 Gevurah of Tiferet: Discipline in Compassion. Rabbi Simon Jacobson's meditation for this day of the Omer:

For compassion to be effective and healthy it needs to be disciplined and focused. It requires discretion both to whom you express compassion, and in the measure of the compassion itself. It is recognizing when compassion should be expressed and when it should be withheld or limited. Discipline in compassion is knowing that being truly compassionate sometimes requires withholding compassion. Because compassion is not an expression of the bestower's needs but a response to the recipient's needs.

(More on counting the Omer here)

posted by Judith @ 5/02/2003 05:28:56 PM