by Melanie Gruenwald
Malchut: manifestation
Making Time Count
Over the past seven weeks, many people in the Kabbalah Experience community and the greater Jewish community have been mindfully engaged with the counting of time. We count up 49 days, marking the Israelites journey from slavery in Egypt, to accepting the Torah at Mount Sinai. This Omer count starts on the second night of Passover, and ends with the holiday of Shavuot.
Each week manifests a different awareness, based on the sefirot (energies of the tree of life), journeying from chesed (expansive loving-kindess) to malchut (manifestation). Each day in each week, has a different lens—As we travel through chesed, we experience the chesed of chesed, gevurah (strength/ boundary-ing) of chesed, tiferet (harmony, balance, integration) of chesed, and so on… until we reach malchut of malchut—the manifestation of manifestation. 7 weeks, 7 days in a week. 49 days total.
When we’re not paying attention to time, it just flies! Fall transforms into winter, winter into spring, spring into summer, and summer into fall. Time is part of our existence not awareness.
Here we are. This week we are counting the final week. It is associated with the sefirah of Malchut. It reminds us to ask, “what and how are we manifesting in this world?”
I enjoy listening to the House Calls podcast, featuring Dr. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States. He interviewed Sara Bareilles, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and actress, and Celia Keanen-Bolger, Tony award-winning singer and actress.
Celia asks: “If I don’t have that much time on the planet, how am I using my energy?”
We’ve been reminded this question over and over again this year, as our KE community has been touched deeply by diagnoses and deaths. We have to confront Celia’s question:
“If I don’t have that much time on the planet, how am I using my energy?”
Do our life view align with our work view? Do we spend our time with intention and meaning? Do we treat one another with care, attention and respect? Do we make choices that allow us to live fully, and contribute to the greater world?
Nothing is promised to us. We can choose how we want to show up in this moment. This moment is all we have.
In this week of malchut, I am reminded to pay attention to what it is that I am manifesting. Is it a world and a community, a life lived, which I would feel good about leaving to my children? And if not, what can I do today to change that? How am I spending my time Thankfully, I do believe I live fully and authentically, and my work and my life align in their values.
But every day, we get to choose. We choose how we are going to show up (masks!) and why are we going to show up (metaphors!) Through this awareness, we can see the person that we want to be.
KE’s Transformative Kabbalah Awareness Practice for Malchut, teaches us:
Attend to what shows us as a reflection of what you need to learn and grow into.
Pay attention to what’s showing up in the mirror. And take the chance you have today, to make this world a little gentler, kinder, safer and healed. Wishing you meaningful travels.
written in loving memory of David Majewski, Robin Glickstein, Uri Bar-Or, David Friedman, Cybil, Harlow, and our son, Koby Gruenwald
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