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Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Shavuot count-down: Day 21 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 Tiferet: Nobility in Compassion. Rabbi Simon Jacobson's meditation for this day of the Omer:
Examine the dignity of your compassion. For compassion to be complete (and enhance the other six aspects of compassion) it must recognize and appreciate individual sovereignty. It should boost self-esteem and cultivate human dignity. Both your own dignity and the dignity of the one benefiting from your compassion. Is my compassion expressed in a dignified manner? Does it elicit dignity in others? Do I recognize the fact that when I experience compassion as dignified it will reflect reciprocally in the one who receives compassion?
We have now moved through all of the combinations of the 7 lower sephirot with the sephira of Tiferet. Tomorrow begins the week of the sephira of Netzach.

(More on counting the Omer here)