29/30 Acharei-Kedoshim: Day 7 (Saturday) | Holiness and Judgment



8 Iyar 5786 AM | 1 AVE.

Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us by Your Spirit and invited the nations to share in the richness of Your Word. We thank You for the people and state of Israel, including the Messiah, our First Fruits, through whom the harvest of life has begun.

Today is the twenty-first day of the Omer according to the minority Sadducean and Essene counts, which is 3 weeks and zero days.

May the Spirit of Truth prepare my heart for the revelation of the 50th day.

10:37 AM EDT in Albany. 

Jonathan Writes:

Late start this morning. I stayed up late reading the introductory material and Chapter 1 in Creating Peace by Being Peace: The Essene Sevenfold Path by Gabriel Cousens. Then I woke around 2:00 AM and spent a couple of hours listening and responding to Professor Kenneth Hanson on the role of speech in Jewish mysticism here. After that, it took me some time to catch up on my sleep.

I must confess that I am experiencing a rather complex sentiment right now. On one hand, my encounter with the teaching of Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, MD, has been unbelievably unitive. I see much of my current self-understanding in Gabriel. I want to reach out to him for Zoom shaktipat. Given his birthday on 14 May 1943 (9 Iyar 5703 in Chicago), he is firmly in healing month of Iyar and Taurus. Tomorrow is 9 Iyar. This feels like an astonishing follow-up to the Richard Schwartz synchronicity I observed in April and Nisan, and the upcoming transits to Gabriel's natal chart demand further attention. On the other hand, Gabriel's creative interpretation of the Essene legacy is academically controversial. Gabriel feels in some ways like a powerful polar opposite, but that could be a correlation with his ongoing Pluto opposition in Leo conjunct my natal Sun in Aquarius.

Added to this, I am still reflecting on an old Jewish acquaintance I saw at the Honest Weight Food Coop yesterday. He did not seem to recognize me, and I did not draw attention to myself. 

That's it for my background opening. It's 5:12 PM. I've been sleeping a lot today. My next step is a scan of JNS. I note Netanyahu's cancer recovery, the cancellation of talks in Islamabad, and The Dawn of a New World Order by Melanie Phillips. 

Now it's 5:33 PM and the reading is Leviticus 20:8-27.

This is the link to the Daily Chumash with Rashi at Chabad.

The Daily Wisdom from the Lubavitcher Rebbe is titled "Whom to Love."


End 5:49 PM.

Shalom.  

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