Posts tagged Hod
40 Days of the Omer. That is 5 Weeks and 5 Days.
40 Days of the Omer. That is 5 Weeks and 5 Days.

Hod shebe Yesod
Humility and Splendor in Foundation and Bonding
Saturday evening June 1 and Sunday June 2
Shavua Tov

40 are the days of night and day rain in Noah’s generation.
40 are the days Moses was on Mount Sinai before he returned with the stone tablets.
40 are the days we waited for him under the mountain.
40 are the days between the first day of Elul until Yom Kippur.
40 are the four sides of the world according to the Kabbalah, each containing ten Sefirot.
40 are the se’ahs (a measure of water) of a mikveh - a ritual bath.
40 are the years in the wilderness.
40 are the years at which - according to the Talmud (Avot 5:26) - a person transitions from one level of wisdom to the next. 

40 are the days the spies scouted the Land. 

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielCaleb, Joshua, Yesod, Hod, Hod Shebe Yesod, Omer, Sinai, ShavuotComment
33 Days of the Omer. That is 4 Weeks and 5 Days.
33 Days of the Omer. That is 4 Weeks and 5 Days.

Hod shebe Hod
Splendor/Gratitude in Splendor/Gratitude

Saturday evening May 25 and Sunday May 26Shavua Tov!
Lag Ba’Omer
With gratitude to Jewish authors and storytellers every where and every time.

“Forty-nine days is one beat of a sunbird’s wing.” 
The voice is gravelly, but not gruff. Round-sounding, and soft.
He is resting by himself.
I walk over and sit - not too close, but . . . not too far.
“For forty years we flew like a hoopoe, low to the ground. Slow. Deliberate.”

Para, para, says my mind to itself. Cow, cow. An idiom. Slow and steady like my breath.
This is Moshe Rabbeinu. Moses our Teacher, our Storyteller.

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielMoses, Moshe Rabbeinu, Hod shebe Hod, Hod, Omer, SinaiComment
32 Days of the Omer. That is 4 Weeks and 4 Days.
32 Days of the Omer. That is 4 Weeks and 4 Days.

Netzach shebe Hod
Endurance in Splendor/Gratitude
Friday evening May 24 and Saturday May 25
Shabbat Shalom

As I was walking today I got to thinking about Samson.
I was, although even I can’t quite believe it now that I’ve read more, already thinking of him when I heard that the 7th Armored Brigade had discovered the tunnel shaft and Shin Bet had retrieved the bodies of three more hostages. 

I don’t know much about Samson, really.
I know he was in some ways a human golem with super strength.
I know he had beautiful hair and was betrayed by a woman named Delilah.
Not much, really, what I know.  

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielHod, Netzach, Hostages, Gaza, OmerComment
31 Days of the Omer. That is 4 Weeks and 3 Days.
31 Days of the Omer. That is 4 Weeks and 3 Days.

Tiferet shebe Hod
Harmony in Splendor/Gratitude
Thursday evening May 23 and Friday May 24

Boaz is beautiful the way a saguaro cactus is beautiful.
He is beautiful the way Palo Duro canyon is beautiful.
His eyes are dark brown, the desert sand at night . . . but one is brown with a hint of green and the other is brown with a hint of gold . . . if you look closely enough.
Other than brown, I don’t actually know what color his eyes are, but look at him. Shouldn’t that man there have eyes two slightly, but just slightly different colors? 

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielBoaz, Tiferet, Hod, Sinai, ShavuotComment
26 Days of the Omer. That is 3 Weeks and 5 Days.
26 Days of the Omer. That is 3 Weeks and 5 Days.

Hod shebe Netzach
Hidden Splendor within Endurance
Saturday evening May 18 and Sunday May 19
Shavua Tov
Devon Spier is sitting on a big rock and shouting out her poetry into the sky.
It falls around us like rain if rain were fairy dust. . . .
Enjoying the soft butterfly kisses of her words on my skin, I’m watching Joseph and Asnat dance in the light. They are a swirl of blues and reds, greens and yellows, and of course they are wearing bells. When they lean together and their heads touch their curls, hers bouncing on her shoulders and his loose and flowing down his back, intertwine. 

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielJoseph, Josef, Asnat, Osnat, Netzach, Tiferet, Hod, Devon SpierComment
19 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks and 5 Days.
19 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks and 5 Days.

Hod shebe Tiferet
Gratitude within Beauty
Saturday evening May 11 and Sunday May 12
That is 4,749 days I have counted since my bone marrow transplant on May 12, 2011.
Which was the 8th of Iyar that year.
This year, the 8th of Iyar is May 16th. 
I’m going to go ahead and celebrate both days.

The sun glows extra warmly tonight as it sets and one by one, and group by group, so many people come to walk with me that a Biblical author would tell you we count in the thousands. Tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands. 

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Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielOmer, AML, Hod, Tiferet, Sefirat haOmer, BMT, Gratitude, BeautyComment