The Bow of Kislev

The flood of the deep wave of the last Hebrew month, Chesvan brings us the colorful sign of the rainbow/Keshet. This curved bow of scintillating color, and the long bow of the Sagittarian archer and Judah the Maccabee, are the images of this present month of Kislev. The festival of light begins in the last week of this month on the 25th of Kislev which this year is the Sabbath. It now celebrates the light of the third Beith HaMikdash/temple which encompasses the entire planet. Seventeen years ago in the Hebrew year 5750/1990 a scintillating, shimmering holy Kochav/comet had been fired from the starry galactic bow and was rapidly becoming visible in the month of Kislev as it approached it’s close passage to the sun for the first time in it’s several thousand year orbit. It would make it’s perihelion(close point) passage of the sun on Nissan 15/April 9, the night of the Pesach/Passover. The world would never be the same. This star added a new fiery light to the menorah of the holy Earth as prophesied by many different peoples and wisdom lineages. The priestly peoples were now fully unified in the physical world. The fourth and final occupation of the Jewish people, that of “Rome“, was finally ended after 20 centuries. This date of the Passover of 5750 can be found registered in the Book of Splendour/Zohar(Terumah) with it’s Gregorian year number! How fitting to have the one and only Gregorian(roman) date found in Zohar to be the very year that the occupation by “Rome” was to end.
The depth of the Chanukah celebration beginning in Kislev marks the end of the third “occupation” of the four historical occupations of the Jewish people, this one by the Assyrian Greeks. Essentially it celebrates the complete end to all “occupation” and the freedom that comes with a healed globe. We are already feeling this inner powerful wonderful sunshine warm a new world as the solar dawn develops in a new aeon.
The Rabbi Abraham Azulai as well as a few others knew that these years would see a new epoch of freedom. This is why R.Azulai said in his book Hesed L’Abraham(19thcent/ce) that at the year 5760/2000 the whole Earth would be as Israel because the waters of purification would rise and cover everything but Israel with the new flood. We are now seven years since 5760. A new menorah of dedication is on fire right now! The key to this awesome light is in the numbers. Thirtysix candles over the eight days plus the eight lights of the shemesh candle, the helper. These “36” lights stand for the first 36 “hours” of the days of genesis/bereishit before the firmament was divided between above and below. This does not mean linear time as we know it now. This is the original eternal ever-present light of bounty and beauty emanating from the source of all that is. This is the very radiant heart of the creation. In the deep kabbalah of the seven kameas/magic number boxes, the box of 6X6, containing the 36 numbers from one to thirty-six is attributed to the Shemesh/sun. This is the sun that fuels the creation. The physical sun is a nodal point of resonance of the true radiant sun/Shemesh in the heaven world of being. This is the source of the legend of the 36 righteous people(lamidvavniks) who maintain and support the existence of the world. Their 36 souls are the Malachim/angels whose paired seraphic wings bring us the 72(36X2)celestial sarim or angelic chiefs that rule all the nations/languages of the earth. They have all been brought together by the countless dedications to freedom and joy by all peoples of the world for many centuries.
This celebration illuminates the colors of the keshet/bow of kislev. Like the original 36 “hours” it is not encompassed in linear time. It is the Sabbath of peace and joy. And fun….eight “crazy(meshuganah)” nights!