Counting of the Omer: Week 6 Yesod – Truth or Distortion
Week 6 Yesod – Truth or Distortion Over the past two weeks, we have been challenged by obstacles that need to be overcome (Netzach) and surrendered to or at least suspended our notions of what the outcome of our plans need to be (Hod). Yesod is the foundation. Yesod is also defined as “truth” or […]
Counting of the Omer: Week 5 Hod – Giving Way
Week 5 Hod: Giving Way Your blueprint is designed as to the change you are committing to—perhaps altered a bit already based on the evaluation and work of the past week (Netzach and overcoming obstacles). Hod literally means to acknowledge and in the context of change a need, to be honest about what you accept […]
Passover and Counting of the Omer
PASSOVER and COUNTING OF THE OMER (Week 1: 7 weeks plus an additional day—the 50th –which is the holiday of Shavuot) The week prior to Passover is a time for reflection about what we can and want to change. In terms of the Sefirot we are in the higher realms of the Sefirot […]
Celebrating and Mourning Bob Loup
To Our KE community: The man of a thousand lives slipped into another realm early Thursday morning. Bob Loup, a long-time student of KE whose daily meditation practice was “D’layt Atar Panuey Menay” (There is no place empty of You) was my surrogate Dad and the surrogate Zayde (grandfather) to our young girls. There is […]
Rectify our Hearing
The current Hebrew month of Av has as its spiritual sense the sense of hearing (all months are endowed with a special spiritual sense according to Sefer Yetzirah). Generally, Av is seen as a month of mourning because many tragedies befell the Jewish people. The origin of the ‘curse’ of this month is faulty hearing. […]