Omer Day 17

Posted by Rabbi Goldie Milgram |
Until sundown today we are within Day 17: Tiferet within Tiferet--beauty within balance, or balance within beauty, or exponential balance or beauty. This is the mixture of Divine Light condensing towards manifestation at our level of perception through Chessed (lovingkindness) that entered Gevurah (strength, boundaries and also, divine evil) to today exponentially fill the Tiferet, the heart space, and then wrap itself in Tiferet yet again.
      While we could have posted something that looks extremely conventionally beautiful here--on the spiritual journey, beauty can look quite different. See how you feel about the transformational behavior of the man in this story, what he does with that mirror. For us this video: http://omeleto.com/224617/ offer an experience illustrative of the pairing of sefirot today. For us this is illustrative of the pairing of sefirot today for week 3, where what things appears as begins to take shape uniquely and real mitzvah-centered change happens en route to Shavuot.  
     At sundown tonight we enter Netzach within Tiferet. Note 1: The Divine encompasses all in most forms of Jewish mysticism] Note 2: I had a cut and paste mistake yesterday, Israel Independence Day actually starts this Wednesday night.