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A Beit Midrash for Torah Study & Jewish Meditation; for the sake of the unification of the Kodesh Borchu & the Shechinah, to unify the letters of the Divine Name, Yud Hey & Vav Hey, the Holy Masculine and the Holy Feminine, the Reconciliation of Paradox. Glenwood, Chicago, IL 60626
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Malchut sheba Hod
Here it is, day 35 of the Omer, Malchut sheba Hod. I have been really sick this entire week so my daily meditations have been kind of Sefirot lite, mostly contemplating my propensity for gratitude and humility and where it is lacking. But Shabbat morning as we were counting the Omer in the Aquarian Minyan, Rabbi Yonatan said something that moved me. He said something like “most people now name Hod as Humility and Gratitude, but he always referred to Hod as Glory” and he waived his hands above his head. That stayed with me, so I went to my dictionary and looked up Hod and sure enough, Hod is defined as Glory, Splendor, Emanence as well as derivations of Hoda-ah, Gratitude, Humility and Submission.
And I remembered the parsha where Leah gives birth to her fourth son and she says “This time I will praise Yah and I will name him Yehudah.” So Leah finally shows some humility, acknowledges and praises the Devine and names her son Yehudah; the shoresh of Yehudah is Hod. Judah, all of us Jehudim, have Hod as our root. So what is that Hod? The Sefirot of Hod, of divine eminence, is the propensity to BE THE LIGHT. To be Light in our living. Not just our thinking. Just being the light, with humility and gratitude.
Maybe that is why Lag B’Omer is important. Hod sheba Hod. The essence of Judah. The essence of each of us as Hod. At least in potential.
And how does it work with Yessod sheba Hod? Am I able to be the light in my relationships, in my desire to bond with others? With Humility and Gratitude to BE in relationship?
And Malchut sheba Hod. Can I be the Light with Dignity? … Grounded? To BE who I am… with gratitude and Humility?
There is a lot of work yet to do.
Maggid Avi J
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