Dancing Across the Sea
by Melanie Gruenwald We begin our Time: Present Moment Awareness course with the question- A fish is to water, as a person is to what…? How can it be, we are swimming through time, without even paying attention to it? The days pass, the years pass, we age (if we’re lucky), but how are we […]
Counting Up
by Dr. David Sanders On June 5th we will be celebrating Kabbalah Experience’s 20th year. We are counting up to it. In our relationship to an anticipated event, it is our inclination to count down; 3 weeks to graduation, 2 days to a holiday, 11 hours to a guest arriving, 5 minutes to a […]
Malchut: Manifestation
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 […]
Counting up: Tiferet
by Melanie Gruenwald Week3: Tiferet. This week, we are immersed in the third week of the counting of the Omer, experiencing the harmony and balance of Tiferet. We embody Tiferet as the holding of opposites. It seems to permeate everything these days. We are celebrating Israel’s Independence Day, while we are in […]
Omer Reflections
by Melanie Gruenwald The period between Passover’s Second Seder and Shavuot is an auspicious time of counting for the Jewish people. We call this seven-week period, ‘Counting the Omer’ Kabbalists have connected this journey to a journey through the bottom seven sefirot- seven weeks, seven days in each week– seven sefirot informing each step of […]
Saying Yes to Yourself
I was recently speaking with my therapist about how exhausted I am from the busy-ness of life, the running around, trying to get it all done, and finding it hard to find time for self-care, because I am so tired. She asked me bluntly- “Do you like yourself?” And I answered, “Of course.” “Do you […]
Counting of the Omer: Week 2 Gevurah – Determination and Focus
Week 2 Gevurah: Determination and Focus This second week of the counting of the Omer is connected to the Sefirah of Gevurah which means strength. In Kabbalah it is taken as the strength to set limits. As Gevurah sits opposite Chesed (the Sefirah of unbounded love) Gevurah is often interpreted as love through saying, “No.” […]