We are walking the 10 days of awe between Rosh haShanah and Yom kippur. We sing the song of Moses in the parsha Ha’azinu on shabbos. This song includes the 5770th verse of Torah as discussed in an earlier post. This song of Moses was sung as the scribe and prophet was at the end of his life and about to enter what is called the Shaar HaNun, the 50th gate of holiness. These ten days follow the ten directions the mekubalim call the sephirot from malchut/world to keter/crown. The ten depths of all that is. This year that we begin the decade of the “ayins” in the Hebrew date Tav-shin-AYIN=770 we are right in the EYE(70), the fount of the Source that waters this unfolding flower of creation. Ayin also means fount or spring as well as eye. We each are on our own journey of initiation into the sacred fount, and it is different and as individual as well as global and collective. Yom Kippur, the day of atonement is called the kedosh kedoshim, the holy of holies of zamin/time. The physical holy of holies in the Earth temple of Solomon is the sacred space of Makom/place; and the initiate priest in ourself is the holy of holies of nephesh/soul. All three of the realms- time, space and soul/being are coming together in a new way. As stated previously the part of the Hebrew date 5770(of the sixth millenium =yesod) that is 770 is also the word for nine/tesha, and we are experiencing the joining of Malchut/world and yesod/foundation which is hinted at by the NINE of the sephirot=tesha and 770 and yesod. The Sepher Eshel Abraham has the picture above, published over 300 years ago, of this joining of malchut and yesod in the traditional form of the Tree of the sephirot. This joining raises the levanah/moon to the level of a hechal/palace that now is home for the ceso/throne of the sacred source of the holy of holies, which pours out and is flooding the Earth as the ancient neviim/prophets foresaw. The joining of the two circles of the two sephirot bring our attention to something else spectacular. When circles intersect at their centers you get a special geometric called by ancient gnostics and mekubalim the “vesica piscis”. this figure of the ancient fish is made popular as a symbol of Christianity but it is far older then the modern religion. It is special because the golden section, the phi number that is only found in living organisms with soul interface appears at the place of the EYE of the FISH. Yes we have entered 770 which also holds the root for the word ayin which means EYE as sacred source, the fount of soul and yes the place from where the golden section geometry of life springs forth, realm of soul. Time, Place and Soul is meeting in this Holy of Holies of all of history and our Yom Kippur, great Sabbath of time of the year 5770. We are all initiates awakening to this awesome beauty of the unfolding flower of the wisdom of the temple which is our Earth and we are inscribed and sealed in the book of life.
Gamar Tov and
Shalom Shalem
Gamar Tov and
Shalom Shalem