Posts tagged Gevurah
37 Days of the Omer. That is 5 Weeks and 2 Days.
37 Days of the Omer. That is 5 Weeks and 2 Days.

Gevurah shebe Yesod
Strength and Boundaries in Foundation and Bonding
Wednesday evening May 29 and Thursday May 30

אני הולכת הביתה. | ani holekhet ha'bayita. | I am going home

“Na’eem m’od,” says the donkey kindly, blinking as she tilts her head this way and that, sizing me up. “Who are you?” she asks. “Where are you going?”
“You know who I am,” I respond, because of course she does.
“Well I don’t have to tell you that it’s been a while,” she huffs. 
“No,” I agree. “You don’t.” Not that it’s been that long. 

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Jewish HolidaysAmy Arieldonkey, Perida, Sinai, Gevurah, Yesod, OmerComment
23 Days of the Omer. That is 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
23 Days of the Omer. That is 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

Gevurah shebe Netzach
Strength/Might and Judgment within Endurance
Wednesday evening May 15 and Thursday May 16
I don’t feel compelled to ship together all of my favorite women from the TaNaKh, and I wouldn’t have thought Judith and Devorah . . . but here we are, and here they are, and . . . welcome to the way my mind works. Watching them together, they sure seem well-matched.
I’m liking the idea of a romance between these two elders. 

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielOmer, Gevurah, Netzach, SinaiComment
16 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks and 2 Days.
16 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks and 2 Days.

Gevurah shebe Tiferet
Strength//Boundaries within Harmony
Wednesday evening May 8 and Thursday May 9
The 5th of the Hebrew month of Iyar is Yom Ha’Atzmaut.
This year that’s the evening of Monday May 13th and the day of the 14th.
The Jewish calendar keeps moving forward and we keep moving forward with it.

If you’d like some gentle company, you are welcome to walk with me and my students for as long as you’d like.  

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielOmer, Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Hineini, Gevurah, Tiferet, 16Comment
14 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks of the Omer.
14 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks of the Omer.

Malchut of Gevurah
Nobility within Strength
Monday evening and Tuesday
Evening May 6 and Day of May 7

Some teach that malchut is the most important sefirah. They say that in malchut God doesn’t act by God’s self, but through us and that malchut is the goal God had in mind when creating the world.  
That isn’t my personal theology, but I respect it and it helps me to stretch and think this way. What if it were? What if malchut is God’s existence and God’s actions resonating along our veins? 
What if Rabbi Regina Jonas is Jewish royalty?  

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielRabbi Regina Jonas, Regina Jonas, Omer, Gevurah, Malchut, Sinai Comment
10 Days of the Omer. That is 1 Week and 3 Days.
10 Days of the Omer. That is 1 Week and 3 Days.




Ten Days of the Omer

Tiferet of Gevurah
Harmony/Integration/Beauty of Discipline/Justice/Boundaries
Wednesday evening and Tuesday
Evening May 2 and Day of May 3

“Well,” I say, “Are we walking toward Sinai to be closer to God? God said come close, but not too close. Are we walking toward Sinai to be closer to each other? I don’t even like all of these people. For that matter, I don’t even always like God. Are we walking toward Sinai to be closer to the Torah? Have you read the Torah? I mean, I love reading the Torah. I love our stories. I love our words. And also . . . have you read the Torah?” I know he has. I know he knows what I’m talking about. Two kids, I mean, they may as well have been kids they were so young, who just want to be closer and closer and closer to this . . . Eternal . . . this Divine . . . this Everything . . . get it in their heads to offer something they came up with themselves. I’m sure they thought it would be extra special. I’m sure they thought they’d feel more and know more and see more and be more. They wanted to soar with eagles and swim with whales and instead they burned with fire.

“I know,” he says quietly.

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielOmer, Tiferet, Gevurah, Nadav, Abibu, Abihu, Alden SolovyComment
8 Days of the Omer. That is 1 Week and 1 Day.
8 Days of the Omer. That is 1 Week and 1 Day.

Chesed shebe Gevurah
Somehow I’m caught in the midst of a bustle of bodies in intense conversation . . .
In the crush of priests, two voices rise over the others. One brings up Ramban, Nachmanides, and says, ‘We are taught by the Ramban that justice and lovingkindness are a combination of fire and water, which is to say, salt. And salt, as we know, sustains all the worlds.’ ‘But this is false!’ His walking companion disagrees amicably. ‘The main purpose of God, the main purpose of the world is Chesed!’

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielOmer, Gevurah, Chesed, Salt, SinaiComment
Two Days of the Omer
Two Days of the Omer

Day Two of the Omer

Gevurah of Chesed
Boundaries/Discipline in Lovingkindness

I’m thinking about Yitro, Moses’s father-in-law and priest of Midian. I can see him there, just ahead of us. His eyes are sparkling as he walks with Caleb and Joshua. It’s hard to say what they might be talking about, but I think Joshua is . . . laughing? Yeah. He’s definitely laughing.

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielOmer, Gevurah, Chesed, Sefirat haOmer, Day Two, YitroComment