Kesher Talk

Shavuot count-down: Day 29 of counting the Omer. Using Kabbalistic symbology for counting the Omer - the days between the 2nd night of Pesach and the start of Shavuot - we have travelled through all of the combinations of the 7 lower sephirot with the the sephira of Netzach, Tonight we begin 7 days of combining these sephirot with the sephira of Hod, beginning with Chesed of Hod: Lovingkindness in Humility. Rabbi Simon Jacobson's meditation for this day of the Omer:

Examine the love in your humility. Healthy humility is not demoralizing; it brings love and joy not fear. Humility that lacks love has to be reexamined for its authenticity. Sometimes humility can be confused with low self-esteem, which would cause it to be unloving. Humility brings love because it gives you the ability to rise above yourself and love another. Does my humility cause me to be more loving and giving? More expansive? Or does it inhibit and constrain me?

(More on counting the Omer here)

posted by Judith @ 5/15/2003 08:38:35 PM