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Gevurah is self-determination, setting aside loyalty to others and looking at a dimension of ‘loyalty to self.’  The obstacle to overcome today is both the sense of isolation-loneliness and the sense of selfishness.  Our self-expression may feel disloyal, a threat to our sense of connectedness to others.  We also need Read more…

Your blueprint is set down on paper and you have “signed off.”  The blueprint though is just a map, an outline for growth, your plan for leaving an aspect of personal constriction.  It is not yet taking action and the process toward freedom remains fluid.  In the desert the Jews Read more…

Put into action your blueprint. This is a day to see how the building will be constructed using the depth of the foundation to make it a secure, stable and well integrated self.

For each week’s Sefirah you can ask yourself on this day of Yesod, have I done the inner work needed…to design myself anew?  In truth, the process of recreating myself anew (a new blueprint) is an everyday (moment) occurrence—but that is also the task for this week as I contemplate Read more…

While we may strive for overcoming any and all obstacles that stand in the way of manifesting our new self we also acknowledge our limitations. The ideals of the blueprint remain—accepting that we may not follow all its nuances or even its main design. It may not even be about Read more…

Overcome obstacles to implementing your blueprint. There are internal and external obstacles.  Will others accept my changes?  Will I have the tenacity and persuasion to construct a new life based on the vision of the blueprint? Meditation: Can I see resistance to change as part of the blueprint for my Read more…

How is your essence revealed through your work, through your relationships, through your avocations? There may be many details to your blueprint, we are no less complex than a house or building.  A house can serve as the metaphoric blueprint in meditating on who you are. What is the design Read more…

Narrow the focus and choose a blueprint. Formulate it and say it aloud. Draw it, write it down. This is who I am (even if in the next moment your actions don’t resemble the blueprint in the least). Meditation: Set a picture of your blueprint in your mind. Carry it Read more…

As we begin to formulate who we are (our free selves)—we want to first and foremost remain open. Tiferet is associated with the gut in the body (our body’s intuition) and for the gut to work smoothly it needs motility. The energy then of this first day is to be Read more…

We are interpreting Tiferet as integration. My Kabbalah teacher emphasizes the inner meaning of the Sefirah of Tiferet as empathy (and Rabbi Jacobson interprets it similarly as compassion). The word Tiferet itself means beauty (or that which harmonizes/balances) and therefore by extension; the energy of integration. Tiferet is usually explained Read more…