The Crook of the Shofar/goat's Horn

On Rosh Chodesh Elul, the month of return, the Moon dragon moves into the mazal of the gedi/kid. This is the ingress of what is called the true node of the moon. As previously mentioned the "mean" node moved into the kid in the first week of the month of Av but the mean is only an ancient approximation of the movement of the lunar nodal axis. The ancients did not have the sophisticated means of calculation of the very difficult position of the moon’s nodal axis, where the plane of the moon's orbit slices the plane of the earth' orbit.The axis/teli of the celestial dragon of kabbalah, the “curled” one as mentioned in the Song of Songs(see below for quote) moves into the kid as we begin the sacred month of Elul, the month of love. We are only beginning to feel this great change. This week we have the full moon of the month of the Lion/Av and this was celebrated as an ancient feast of loving desire in the vineyards of Ayin(fount)of gedi(kid). Remember this next year 5770(Heh-Tav-Shin-Ayin) contains the letter ayin in it's name/number, which means sacred fount or spring. This full moon is the culmination of the unfolding flower of time and cycle as this weeks Torah parsha of Eikev hints at the rewards that HaShem bestows on those who turn toward the direction of HaShem in their personal unfoldment of their soul journey in this world.This journey and unfoldment is like the helical crook of the Shofar, the rams or goats horn that we sound every morning in Elul as we approach the great change of the wheel of the shanah/year. The word eikev means reward as well as heel, it is the root of the name of Yaakov/Jacob. What is our reward/eikev in this world called exile/goliot whose root also means to unfold(As Rabbi Gershon Winkler always reminds his students)? In this weeks torah parsha we are told that one tribe, the people of Levi were not to share in the reward of land like all the other tribes. Their heritage would be HaShem-YHVH!

8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day. ט עַל-כֵּן לֹא-הָיָה לְלֵוִי, חֵלֶק וְנַחֲלָה--עִם-אֶחָיו: יְהוָה הוּא נַחֲלָתוֹ, כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לוֹ. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God spoke unto him.--

This is an awesome declaration in Torah and was the basis of the elevation of the status of the priestly tribe in the writings of the Qumran/dead sea scrolls.

To inherit YHVH is to come into Geulah, redemption as our unfolding becomes like that of the Levanah/moon in her fullness as we celebrate at TuB’Av this week. To have YHVH, the very Heart of heaven(from last weeks post and parsha) as a heritage is to take the eikev/reward of the heel/eikev of all time and history and to become wealthy with the many blessings mentioned in this weeks parsha including rain in the proper season and the free flow of the mighyt stream of life. To achieve complete undfoldment, geulah/redemption is to have HaShem as a living heritage within our Earth temple world of unending unfoldment of desire and beauty. The haftorahs of these weeks are from the navi Isaiah and in his chapter 27 we have three great dragons who are often mentioned in the circles of the mekubalim.

Isaiah Chapter 27
א בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִפְקֹד יְהוָה בְּחַרְבּוֹ הַקָּשָׁה וְהַגְּדוֹלָה וְהַחֲזָקָה, עַל לִוְיָתָן נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, וְעַל לִוְיָתָן, נָחָשׁ עֲקַלָּתוֹן; וְהָרַג אֶת-הַתַּנִּין, אֲשֶׁר בַּיָּם. {ס}
1 In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. {S}A Hebrew - English Bible
According to the Masoretic Text
and the JPS 1917 Edition
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They do have an association with the three realms mentioned in last weeks post and they hold a clue as to the heritage of reward that we are speaking about now. The first dragon is the piercing dragon as of the linear straight movement of the continuum of time. This one is “slain” by HaShem(the end of time as a constrainer). The third dragon is of the sea and spoken of as biting his own tail and this one too is “slain” by haShem(we come to possess our own souls). The second dragon is the key to our great mystery, it does not directly mention this one as being “slain”. This is the famous “crooked” dragon, the word for crooked/aykalaton not being used anywhere else in Tanach. A serious student will discern that like the axis/Teli, the gilgul/wheel and the lev/heart of the mekubalim( from sepher HaBahir and Yetzirah and mentioned in last weeks post) these three correspond to space, time and soul/being. Herein is hidden the great raz/secret of the mekubalim for we are told that the locks of the teli/dragon of space are taltalim/curled as is mentioned in the lover of the Song of songs(5:11):

10 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand. יא רֹאשׁוֹ, כֶּתֶם פָּז; קְוֻצּוֹתָיו, תַּלְתַּלִּים, שְׁחֹרוֹת, כָּעוֹרֵב. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are curled, and black as a raven.

This brings us back to the special “crook” or twist of the Shofar whose sound is getting stronger as it permeates the unfolding of geulah/redemption in our sacred earth olam/world. Our eikev/reward in this eikev/heel of the walk of history of Yaakov/"he who grabs the heel"; is the blessing of the heritage of the Heart of Heaven in our walk on sacred Eretz/Earth. “walk in beauty”!

Month of the Aryeh/Lion and the Green Stone of Av/Shimon

From the great Mayan creation story in their bible, the Popul Vuh:
“There was nothing brought together, nothing which could make a noise, nor anything which might move, or tremble, or could make noise in the sky.
There was nothing standing; only the calm water, the placid sea, alone and tranquil. Nothing existed.
There was only immobility and silence in the darkness, in the night. Only the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded with light. They were hidden under green and blue feathers, and were therefore called Gucumatz. By nature they were great sages and great thinkers. In this manner the sky existed and also the Heart of Heaven, which is the name of God and thus He is called.” (From Popul Vuh U. of Oklahoma Press1950)

In our Torah parsha for this week of Tisha B’Av/Va’eschanan we have in Devarim/Chapter4:11”So you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of heaven,” On this verse the special small book of the mekubalim, Sepher haBahir has a commentary:
“Rabbi Berachiah sat and expounded:
What is the Axis(Teli)?
This is the likeness that is before the Blessed Holy One. It is thus written(Song of Songs 5:11), “His locks are curled(Taltalim).”
What is the sphere(gilgul)? This is the womb.(and the wheel/shanah of time and the year)
What is the Heart? It is that regarding which it is written(Devarim 4:11), “unto the heart of heaven.” In it are included the 32 mystical paths of wisdom.”(32=the gematria of lev=heart)(after Kaplan’s translation-page40)
These are at the heart of the mystery of the mekubalim, the three spheres or realms. They hold the key to what has needed to be healed and how we are now in a new olam/world of the Earth as the third Beit haMikdash/Temple.
The Heart is the concealed upper beginning, the reshith and rarely spoken of.
The sphere is the upper mother of understanding, the Earth/haretz in the first verse of Bereshith/Genesis and the Axis, the Teli is the dragon of HaShamayim that unfolds into the depths of space in our manifested physical universe. This “axis” called curled like the helix is as mentioned in previous posts needed to be healed in order to heal the broken vav of the word shalom in parsha Pinchas and allow the upper waters to directly flow into this olam/world.
This weeks Torah parsha includes the second rendition of the Esrei Devarim/The Ten Sayings(commandments) which varies in that HaShem tells us to Shomer/guard the Sabbath while the first rendition in Shemot/Exodus tells us to Zachor/remember the Sabbath. The zachor is a positive form that can be done every day and night while the shomer is a negative commandment that is done on the Sabbath day - all the rules and regulations of how to “protect” the Sabbath day. The negative involves the gilgul and the wheel of time, hence the 365 negative Torah mitzvoth which correspond to the days of the yearly wheel. The positive is the 248 positive mitvot (the total=613) which are said to equal all the bones and organs in the body of Adam Qadmon. The upper mother(Binah) holds the 365 on the left column of the traditional Tree of the depths(womb of time) and the upper father (reshith)holds the 248 on the right column of the Tree. The angel Raziel, the angel of the secret book has a value of 248 in his name and holds the mystery of the Heart of heaven/reshit which he gave to the original Adam Qadmon.
Those mysteries of this angel were a sacred book of crystal and here is where the Mayan story is so revealing for those green feathers in the waters of "heaven"referred to in their creation story refer to the column of green which the zohar tells us is one of the three columns that support the entire creation(red and white are the others).This second rendition of the ten devarim is also different from the first in that it contains the letter teth which the first does not. This letter has the value of nine and the only crystal stone on the breastplate of the high priest that also has the letter teth is the "pitdah" that is said to belong to the tribe of Simeon(Shimon) and relates to the month of Av. So there is this very special green stone that completes a new rebuilt temple earth. The Mayans relate a blue "turquoise" to “Heart of heaven/sky” and a green "turquoise" to heart of earth.
For those who can “Hear/Shema” the root of Shimon's name, to hear;
Celebrate a renewed green Earth temple, within your “decreased joy” at this time of the Teth/nine and then an increased joy for the full moon of Av.
From the Song of Songs Chapter One:
15 "Behold, thou art fair, my love;
behold, thou art fair;
thou hast doves' eyes.
16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant:
also our bed is GREEN/Raeinanah."
Good Shabbos

The 9 of Av/The forty years has ended

The Moon now veils the hechal/palace of the third temple of the mysteries of Shlomo HaMelech.
He to whom Peace belongs. The beginning of the Torah parsha devarim, the beginning of the fifth book of Chumash/fifth now in this fifth month, the month of Hod(temple), takes place after 40 years(chapter1:3) in the wilderness and the peoples are told it is time to possess the sacred land.

2בְּאַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה, בְּעַשְׁתֵּי-עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; דִּבֶּר מֹשֶׁה, אֶל-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה אֹתוֹ, אֲלֵהֶ And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

Again in chapter 2:7 the forty years are mentioned.

For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.' ז כִּי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בֵּרַכְךָ, בְּכֹל מַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶךָ--יָדַע לֶכְתְּךָ, אֶת-הַמִּדְבָּר הַגָּדֹל הַזֶּה: זֶה אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ עִמָּךְ--לֹ
חָסַרְתָּ, דָּבָר. 7

A Hebrew - English Bible
According to the Masoretic Text
and the JPS 1917 Edition
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We as humanity just celebrated a completion of forty years since humans walked the surface of the Levanah/moon, which the mekubalim know is said to veil the first of the hechalot/heavenly palaces. In fact in the summer of 1971ce on a Sabbath Tisha’b’Av humans walked and breathed on the moon, hinting at a time that the Earth would join with the yesod/foundation in a new way and become a holy temple. The beith HaMikdash Sheleshi/third temple. Yes, the sacred Earth is the holy land and it is time to honor this eretz. This sabbath is the day of Chazon/vision and it always falls in this first week of the month of Av, the mazal of the aryeh/lion. We now have nine petals of the rose of the omakim/depths(5-770=tesha=nine) and the dawn total eclipse of the sun on 1Av is another reminder that the levanah/moon has regained her stature in a new eon. The 1Av is the yahrzheit of Aaron the priest and this eclipse tells us that this lineage and that of all the holy peoples has been reinvigorated. The ability for the very small lunar sphere to create the total eclipse phenomenon is a hint at the soul ocean that the entire created universe floats within. Last weeks post we discussed the importance of the kamea of nine and we can see that the value of 40(as in 40 years)is the value of the eight boxes surrounding the central box of five(chumash). The 40 is always a testing period to attain to a new heh, a new five(heh=five)the only letter of the name of HaShem that is repeated. Half way through the first forty years since we walked the Moon, in the Hebrew year 5750 we entered the 40 years that the Sepher HaZohar calls the Kibbutz Goliot, the ingathering of exiles. In the parsha devarim HaShem also tells the people, that they must turn from their own sacred mountain of har Sinai and go out and make the whole earth a holy land.

6 The LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain; ז פְּנוּ וּסְעוּ לָכֶם, וּבֹאוּ הַר הָאֱמֹרִי וְאֶל-כָּל-שְׁכֵנָיו, בָּעֲרָבָה בָהָר וּבַשְּׁפֵלָה וּבַנֶּגֶב, וּבְחוֹף הַיָּם--אֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַלְּבָנוֹן, עַד-הַנָּהָר הַגָּדֹל נְהַר-פְּרָת. 7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. ח רְאֵה נָתַתִּי לִפְנֵיכֶם, אֶת-הָאָרֶץ; בֹּאוּ, וּרְשׁוּ אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע יְהוָה לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶם לְאַבְרָהָם לְיִצְחָק וּלְיַעֲקֹב לָתֵת לָהֶם, וּלְזַרְעָם אַחֲרֵיהֶם. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'

Notice how the land called Lebanon which is actually a form of the Hebrew word for Moon/Levanah is mentioned and know that this is a prophecy for a time when this moon palace is joined in a new way with the earth globe and the awakening of the shalom shalem, the great peace flows through our world like the mighty stream.

Good Shabbos of the great vision! We are Here!

Tisha B'Av and the 72 days of Chesed/the Shofar

From the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz till the Rosh Hashanah of the next year there are 72 days. These 72 hint at the names of HaShem in the world of yetzirah, of angels and the 72 star gates explained in previous posts; also the value of 72 equals the word Chesed/lovingkindness. The Zohar for this weeks Torah parsha Mattot reads; “Come and behold. It is written: “for I have said, “The world is built by Chesed”(Tehilim) What is Chesed? It is one of the King’s supernal sefirot. For the Holy One, Hakodesh Bruch Hu, named the soul of Yisrael Chesed, on the condition that it would build. Thus, Chesed will never cease…”ZoharIII,259b.(trans after Ashlag).
We are in these 72 days now as we have entered the traditional 3 weeks of mourning fro 17Tammuz to TishaB’Av,and we enter the fifth Hebrew month of Av next week which corresponds to the fifth omak/depth of the lower sephirot called Hod. Hod is the vessel of the holy temple and this month of Av is the month the temples were destroyed and also is the month that the third temple becomes revealed to the olam/world continually in a new way. The word Hod means splendour and has the gematria value of 15. 15 equals the divine name Yah; Yod-Heh- and is the key value of the kamea number grid of Shabbatai, the Sabbath, the grid or famous box of nine that we discuss often in this blog. See Rabbi Ibn Ben Ezra’s book “The Secret of the Torah” for more details on the box of nine. Each day of the week has a box, a planet, a heaven and an element. What is quite significant about the box of nine is that each row and column equals the 15 value of Yah and Hod and the total value of the square, the numbers from one to nine equals 45, the value of the word Adam/human and odem/ruby. The Hebrew letter associated with the month of Av from Sepher Yetzirah is the letter teth which also has the value of nine. This is the ninth of the month of AV which name is the Aleph-Beth ; Av contains the letters-Aleph-Beith. This day can herald in each of us the time when the whole earth is the sacred Malchut sephirah where many peoples are experiencing the beauty and freedom of all the other NINE omakim/depths. As we walk these sacred days of chesed, these 72 days in the awakening of a new divine age/eon we approach a new turn of the wheel/shanah and the Hebrew year 5770 which date contains the word tesha=Tav-Shin-Ayin which is the number 770 but the word tesha is the word for the number NINE!!! We are already experiencing the awakening of the complete Adam, the value of the box of nine which corresponds to the holy Sabbath of the week. As mentioned in a previous post the unifying or touching of Netzach and Hod(called also the Kerubim), the nodes of the moon dragon has allowed the flow of “upper” waters into our world and this causes the sephira of Malchut to join with Yesod in a new way (see picture above from the Sepher Eshel Avraham/1701 which is a rare depiction of this change in sephirot)which changes the number of sephira in a sense to nine. The world is already experiencing this unprecedented global awakening and transformation. This will become more profound during the NINE days from Av1 to Av9 as the moon dragon/north node moves into the mazzal of the gedi/Capricorn. The shofar is made from the horn of a ram(aries) or a goat(Capricorn) and so here is another synchronous event implying the sound of the shofar, the goats or rams horn, each which is an animal corresponding to the mazzal called cardinal. The cardinal signs, Aries,Libra,Capricorn and the Crab/cancer all are called cardinal signs- involved in initiating the ratzon, the will of HaShem, the divine in our world. The three kinds of mazal/signs(cardinal,fixed,mutable) align with the three columns of the traditional Tree of the sephirot. All the practicing mekubalim will be hearing this sound of awakening as the helical turn of the shofar vibrates the omakim/depths of the Tree within and without. The Rosh HaShanah of this new wheel of the year that we can already hear will be celebrated on the Sabbath when it is said Hashem is the one who sounds the Shofar.
Good Shabbos!!

Parsha Pinchas and the Book of Seven Seals/Seven eyes

In the traditional written Torah scroll the letter vav in the first sentence of parsha Pinchas, the letter in the word shalom(shin-lamed-VAV-mem) is a broken vav. Most commentators say that the vav is diminished because the “peace” of the covenant given to Pinchas was gotten through violence so it could not be complete. The mekubalim have the sod/mystery level since the six value of the vav corresponds to the six omakim/depths related to the days of the week; that need to be healed in order to bring a complete peace. The healing of course involves the reestablishing of the original light of the levanah/moon which was diminished with the change involving the Tree of Daat/knowledge and the Etz Chaiim; the tree of life. The mysteries of Solomon deal directly with this completing of the shalom; Solomon’s Hebrew name being the word for peace. He was the fifteenth generation of Israel and the fifteenth day of the lunar month is the full moon. Legend says that the moon was full perpetually during a period of the reign of King Solomon. The Zohar on the parsha Pinchas gives us instruction of how to heal the trees and the moon. The little book inside the main body of the Zohar, “the Faithful Sheperd” contains amazing commentary on how to heal the Tree in earth.” Netzach and Hod are the two halves of a body, like two twins/teomim, which is why they are called heavens/shechakim. The two of them together are vav vav of veshet, from the aspect of the left, and they are the two molar teeth from the aspect of the right.” Zohar III-the faithful shepherd of Parsha Pinchas/trans. After Ashlag. If we continue in our understanding of the healing of the “six” “lower” depths then we can see how these two teomim/twins need to be joined so as to allow the flow of the upper waters into our world which has reestablished the holy temple in Earth. This corresponds to the reuniting of the “head” and “tail” of the lunar being from the ancient Vedic legend in last weeks post. The various wisdom traditions around the earth have been given different keys to the full understanding of these mysteries. The Hebrews had the crystal book that the gnostic Christians openly wrote about in their book of revelation, calling it the book sealed with seven seals. This sepher/sapphire is called the stone with seven eyes(ayin=founts)by the prophet Zechariah. This book in the Hebrew wisdom was given to the original Adam, male and female by the angel of secrets. It is said in legend to be made of sapphire and encased in gold. In the pseudipigraphical literature we see it again; “Above the Seraphim is a prince, more exalted than all princes, more wonderful than all ministers, Radweiriel YHWH is his name and he is in charge of the archives. He takes out the scroll box in which the book of records is kept and brings it into the presence of the Holy One” chapter 27;1 & 2 of the Book of Enoch from Old Testament Psuedopigraphica by Doubleday. The Hebrew lineage keeps the book; and the legend of the Adam Baal Shem gives us more details about this line of initiation as the way of a true scribe. The gnostics made the book famous in their writings as sealed with seven seals, and the sufi mystics of Islam were given the secrets of how to open the seals of the sacred book. For this book has been guarded by the gates of time herself(Binah/upper mother) and only those given the true keys have the daat to open this Sepher/sapphire. The gates of time have been explained in previous posts since they are seen as the “Teomim” twin stars that move through the 72 star gates over the turn of the earth related to the movement of vast periods of time and civilizations. The book of sapphire has been opened in our times and the knowledge of this is now being revealed as we have entered the 207th period of the blessing of the sun which brings us to the special angel chief mentioned in bahir as uriel whose name contains the word ohr-aleph-vav-resh which means light whose value is 207 in gematria. The full value of this chiefs name, auriel, is 248 which also equals the value of the angel chief in charge of the sacred crystal book - raziel=248. Those mekubalim will know that the the 248 are the “positive” number of mitzvoth of the 613 total which number equals the word ohrot=“lights’=613, the plural of ohr which equals 207. And so the 248 are the physicality of body, the number of bones and organs in the original body of Adam Qadmon. Our times are times of the opening of this special Sepher/sapphire. The true peace of the word Shalom in the first lines of this weeks parsha Pinchas is now ours. From Sepher HaZohar on Pinchas’ “The lord buildeth Jerusalem”(Psalms)-he and no other. It is for this building that we are waiting, not a human structure which cannot endure. The Holy One , Baruch haShem, will send down to us the first house and the second house together, the first in concealment and the second openly. The second will be revealed to show all the world the handiwork of the Holy One, Baruch HaSem, in perfect joy and gladness. The first which will be concealed, will ascend high over that which is revealed, and all the world will see the clouds of glory surrounding the one which is revealed and enveloping the first one which ascends to the height of the glorious heavens. It is for that building that we are waiting. Even the future city of Jerusalem will not be the work of human hands, all the more so the Temple, HaShems habitation.” Zohar III221a(trans Sperling). This Hebrew month by tradition is the time on the 17th of Tammuz that the original crystalline stone from har Sinai were shattered. The pieces were by tradition kept and we pray that this holy chodesh/month of Tammuz and Av, the months of Netzach and Hod; Yerushalim(Netzach=eternity) and the Temple(Hod=kavod) the people sense this peace that is healed.

the dragon in the Kid-capricorn/ayin Gedi

We are now in the Hebrew month of Tammuz, the fourth month which relates to the fourth of the depths/sephirot of the week; Netzach=eternity. The original crystalline tablets from Har Sinai give us the direct interface with the olam haBeriah; the world of throne. As a longtime theme of this blog the world of throne is now fully interfaced with our world of assiah/action. This month restores the first born birthright of the shevat Reuben who is the tribe corresponding to Tammuz. His stone is the odem/ruby which means we have left the exile of Edom/Rome, the word that has the same letters of Odem and Adam. The completed original Adam has been the goal of the mekubalim/kabbalists for the millenniums. This is the making of the true repair/healing of the world. This Tikkun Olam has not only been the work of social activists for centuries but also of the global wisdom traditions-completing the first Adam, male and female in our physical world of assiah/action. The mitzvot/commandments of this weeks Torah parsha(the red heifer) involves the rectification of death which involves the mysteries of the Tree of daat/knowledge. The nachash is an integral part of this famous story and the letters of the nachash/snake(nun-cheth-shin) are the same letters of the choshen/breastplate(cheth-shin-nun) of Aaron. The mysteries of the technology of the Hebrew priesthood, including the fragments of the original tablets of stone crystal from har Sinai; involves the healing or rebalancing of the change that the tree of Daath involves. This is all very connected to an ancient Sanskrit Vedic story that brings it all up to this very moment in Tammuz/Av in astrological time. The Vedic story involves the original divine powers using the great serpent to churn the cosmic ocean and bring up the nectar of immortality. The nectar comes up but a "demon being" swallows some and the divine power of Vishnu(sacred life) chops him in half. The two halves become the beings in Vedic astrology called Rahu and ketu; the north and south nodes of the moon sometimes called the dragons nodes. See how the serpent energy is related to the dragon power and the diminishing of the light of the moon which involves the nodal axis and the moons movements in relation to Earth and Sun. The aggada/legends of Talmud tell us about how the light of the moon was originally dimished from being as bright as the sun/shemesh. The complex Hebrew 19 year prayer calendar is established to fully work with nodal changes of the moon and the eclipse cycles effected by this. For the mekubalim we needed to bring into manifestation the complete Adam Qadmon and the doing of this is directly related to rejoining the nodal points of the dragon of the moon, called in the Vedic literature the Rahu and ketu. Actually the means of doing this is also explained through use of story in the Vedas. For the mekubalim it is very involved with the left side of the Tree of the kabbalists and opening the shaar haNun, the fiftieth gate of the upper mother(Binah). This allows the thirteen streams of pure balsam(bedilcha=crystal) to flow directly into our olam/world. Shlomo haMelech/Solomon said he did not understand the laws of the red heifer and part of this was due to the fact that the sacred vessels of his temple would need to travel around the globe of Earth and find their way to the other side in the land of America before the completing of the Adam Qadmon could be made manifest. the Jewish author Stefan Zweig in his "Buried Candelabram" explains this part of the work. The sign for this completion happening would be the birth of a pure white bison heifer in America(in 5753/1993) which marks the return of the upper sky mother called whope, the star maiden or white bison calf woman for Native Americans. In the land of ancient judea the first birth of a pure red heifer calf since temple times occurred in 5757/1997. This coincides with the opening of the 50th gate of Binah(upper mother) and of course the flag of America has 50 stars-gates! And the thirteen stripes - of pure balsam-from Zohar in the greater and lesser holy assemblies. And the soul spark of the original Adam who in America came as the Cheyenne prophet Sweet Medicine hid the prophecy of time in his vision of the winged thunder chiefs/Seraphim - the 44 chiefs surrounding him deep in the heart of Bear Butte thousands of years ago. So now we have the 44th American president whose name is Hebrew for lightning bolt and a global push towards freedom and diplomacy.
We will now get back to why the month of tammuz/Av is connected to netzach/eternity and Hod/the holy temple. For during the three weeks of traditional mourning this summer from 17Tammuz to 9Av we have the north node of the grandmother moon/levanah moving into the sign of the gedi/kid(capricorn) and completing a grand 19 year cycle since the “repair” of the nodes of the moon took place. This means the direct flow of the cardinal power of will of the cardinal signs of capricorn/cancer- the primal power of water/Earth is available here. This heals the separation between the Tree of Daat/knowledge and the Etz chaiim/the Tree of Life in our physical world. This Sabbath we sing a double parsha and the second one is Balak where Balaam’s vision of the Kochav, the special star of Yaakov(the star of Whope the upper sky maiden) is seen that has played a critical role in healing the Earth and bringing humanity into the great Shalom Shalem and the purification of our times!

15And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, and the saying of the man whose eye is opened; טז נְאֻם, שֹׁמֵעַ אִמְרֵי-אֵל, וְיֹדֵעַ, דַּעַת עֶלְיוֹן; מַחֲזֵה שַׁדַּי יֶחֱזֶה, נֹפֵל וּגְלוּי עֵינָיִם. 16 The saying of him who heareth the words of God, and knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with opened eyes: יז אֶרְאֶנּוּ וְלֹא עַתָּה, אֲשׁוּרֶנּוּ וְלֹא קָרוֹב; דָּרַךְ כּוֹכָב מִיַּעֲקֹב, וְקָם שֵׁבֶט מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל, וּמָחַץ פַּאֲתֵי מוֹאָב, וְקַרְקַר כָּל-בְּנֵי-שֵׁת. 17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Seth. יח וְהָיָה אֱדוֹם יְרֵשָׁה, וְהָיָה יְרֵשָׁה שֵׂעִיר--אֹיְבָיו; וְיִשְׂרָאֵל, עֹשֶׂה חָיִל. 18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; while Israel doeth valiantly. A Hebrew - English Bible
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the mouth of Earth/Korach in the underworld

This weeks Torah parsha is all about making the holy peoples a people who are all priests with a direct relationship, each person to haShem. It also keeps hidden in the sod/mystery, the meaning of the layers of the underearth and what the mouth(peha) of the Earth means. The number of posukim/verses in parsha korach is 95 which is also the very gematria of the word that means the mouth of the earth that swallowed Korach and friends, Peh-yod-heh=80-10-5. The pueblo world view is usually regarded as “animistic” to the anthropologists but there are wonderful parallels with the secret teachings of the mekubalim and the stratified layers of Earth and sky for native peoples of America. For the pueblos we have migrated through various underworlds before emerging onto our familiar hardened Earth and sky above paradise. Being swallowed by the underearth would be less a punishment for the Puebloans as some commentaries on the Torah Korach would imply and more of a step backward in development or initiation. The place where the band goes under the Earth is called Sheol in Hebrew. The holiest song ever written, Shir HaShirim, tells us that love is stronger and more absolute than the fire of Sheol.
ו שִׂימֵנִי כַחוֹתָם עַל-לִבֶּךָ, כַּחוֹתָם עַל-זְרוֹעֶךָ--כִּי-עַזָּה כַמָּוֶת אַהֲבָה, קָשָׁה כִשְׁאוֹל קִנְאָה: רְשָׁפֶיהָ--רִשְׁפֵּי, אֵשׁ שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה.

6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave(Sheol in Hebrew); the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.
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Sheol is the layer of underearth mentioned in holy Torah as where Korach's band went after being swallowed. In the ancient mysteries of both aboriginal America and the mekubalim this place would be considered a “raw” state where the balance of the primal powers is not yet achieved. Access to the center of the creation, we call haShem might therefore be limited in the underearths. Initiates in the pueblo cosmology and ceremonial system are regarded as “cooked” versus "raw"people. The ancient Pueblo peoples found there to be four Earth worlds, three underworld layers and various sky worlds. This so beautifully aligns with aggadic and kabbalistic schemes of the olamim/universes. Traditions about the parsha Korach include the ideas that the mouth of the earth that swallows alive also involves a reemergence of the individuals swallowed in the era of redemption that is now upon us. The Sefer HaZohar keeps to one major theme on the incident with Korach. That is that he wanted to switch the left and right powers, the leviim holding the left and the Cohanim holding the right. This would have made the work of the global tikkun not possible. it is all about balance as the native elders also teach us.
The picture above of the human migration/initiation is taken from a Pima Indian basket design. (from the book "Earth and Sky"(UNM press))Similar “migration” labyrinths can be found with the Hopi Indians and on ancient coins from Greece. both the underearth layers and the sky world layers can be discerned. This can be found discussed in Sefer haZohar and other books of the mekubalim.
After the incident with the Earth swallowing some people the Torah presents the famous scene where the twelve tribal elders all bring their scepters to validate the line of Aaron as the true priestly lineage. The scepter of Aaron blooms before the eyes of the people. The scepter of Aaron involves initiation into the mysteries of the interface technology between the hechaloth/palaces and the earth.

The gematria of the name of the Earth mouth who swallows is 95 which is the same as the number of verses in the entire parsha. It is also the gematria value of "Daniel" which hints how important a deeper understanding of this part of torah is for the times we are living in right now.

Remember Daniel reveals in his book the mysteries of the times of the geulah. In our times the mouth transforms from peh-yod-heh to yod-peh-heh which in Shir HaShirim/Song of all Songs means yaphah=beautiful!
Good Shabbos!

The Fringes/Tzitzit encircle the entire Earth

We will continue on understanding the three divine names in the Shema, the Jewish proclamation of faith. The Rashbi mentioned the significance of these three but would not elaborate while the people were still deep in the night of the exile of Edom. This weeks Torah parsha gives us the angle on how important the middle of the three names in the Shema really is for the parsha is about possessing “the land”. the “einu” ending of the divine root in the Shema prayer implies our HaShem. As we mentioned in last weeks post the Baals of ancient Cannan were all about possessing with power and these storm Chiefs themselves needed to be brought into the sacred lineage tradition. This is parallel to the haggadic stories of how Shlomo Hamelech/Solomon called the “demons” to him with his special technology and put them to work building the Temple.The last post explains how the center of the seven lamps of the menorah needed to be moved with the beings associated with meadim placed in the middle, and we now know that the central core of the sacred mother earth is made of the metal associated with the planet Meadim/mars and the metal that colors our own blood. This weeks parsha tells us that we needed to take possession of the eretz/land even though the commentaries tell us that the inhabitants of the land of canaan were powerful spiritually and so the spies were afraid of them. The powerful sarim/angelic princes of many nations needed to be brought into the temple lineage in order to open to the upper waters of Kedusha/sacredness. The journey of holy peoples around the entire globe meant making the earth the center of all the olamim/universes. This weeks parsha begins with the story of the scouts who went into the “holy land“ and it ends with the verses about the Tzizit, the fringes that echo the DNA strands connected/knoted together by the four nitrogenous bases that are like the four divine letters of HaShem‘s name. The sequence of knots give us this incredible dance of life in the physical. In the native Hopi Indian tradition the creative upper mother is Grandmother Spider and her male active Teomim/twin sons are the Weaver and the Echoer. These two are said to keep the Earth globe turning in balance. The fringes are an echo back to the ancient shamanic art of weaving fabric.
We are now entering the month of Tammuz in the yearly/shanah cycle of transformation. This month hides a special holiness in that we would have received the first Luchoth HaBanim/Tablets of crystal if it was meant to be so that we will receive this great blessing now as part of the global Tikkun we are witnessing.This is the month of the shevat/tribe of Reuben, the firstborn whose stone on the breatplate of the Priest is the Odem/blood red ruby. It is the mazzal of sartan/crab whose element is the powerful cardinal/oceanic water. It is opposite the cardinal Earth sign of the gedi/kid where the planet pluto has entered which is unfurling the banners of the temple tradition of the anceint mekubalim. The moon/levanah rules the month of Tammuz and her sign the crab, and she is pulling the oceanic tides of civilization toward an awakening peace. We have carried the DNA fringes of our garments around the entire Earth and made the olam/world a holy place.

From the book of Bamidbar/Chapter 15:

37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: לח דַּבֵּר אֶל-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם, וְעָשׂוּ לָהֶם צִיצִת עַל-כַּנְפֵי בִגְדֵיהֶם, לְדֹרֹתָם; וְנָתְנוּ עַל-צִיצִת הַכָּנָף, פְּתִיל תְּכֵלֶת. 38 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue.

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the center of the seven lamps

The Torah parsha for this week begins with the lighting of the seven lamps in the temple. The temple holds the cubic holy of holies which is the consecration of space. Yes!! Here is the very CENTER of space-dimension/omak/depth. Here the lights “below” are kindled to engender the stream of chesed from “above”. The physicists of today tell us in the four continuums of space-time that there is no center in this infinitude of space. And with this world view attached to a psychological/emotional floating dimension the people are lost and floating. The nature of our temple tradition is to orient to the very CENTER, the sabbath of space. This is the place of the NAME/haShem and the tradition of naming. The name consecrates being in space/time and sets us on this path of initiation. We do have the eben/stone and we have the consecrated center of omak/depth. The aboriginal native elders in America said this would happen in the southwest of the US. The Mayan priests predicted centuries ago of the return(in Book of Chilaam Balam) of Itzamna(itz=tree in Hebrew and amna=faith) and the beginning of a new world center in the southwestern US. The physical Earth globe holds the very center of the entire creation now. The order of the seven lamps that connect through one beaten piece of metal is changed to an order that allows the center, the holy of holies to reside in our world. This has been the work of our temple tradition and the mysteries of Solomon. The seven kameas of the planets are the maps that show us what changes have been accomplished. The natural order places the grid/kamea of the sun in the center, a box of 36 squares with no center box(called a palace). Our book of Koheleth/Ecclesiastes tells us that all is vanity, nothing new “under the sun”. We needed to bring one of the grids/kameas that are “above” the sun/tiphereth, into the center of our Earth temple to make the global Tikkun/repair. This has been the work of the sky chiefs who go by many names in various traditions. The only planetary spheres name that contains the Aleph in the Hebrew is Meadim/Mars. It actually contains the name Adam! This kamea/grid of meadim, of 25 squares contains a central box/palace with the number sacred to Yisrael-13(value of echad=one). The Zohar tells us that 13 streams of balsam come from the beard of the upper face, this is from the “Book of Concealed Mystery” and the “Lesser Holy Assembly”. With this planetary body as the central lamp we have the CENTER here in Earth. This is the mystery of the fourth to last verse in the holiest of all songs ever sung and now this verse contains the sacred name and the song has become the tenth song. Most traditions tells us that Shir haShrim does not contain the sacred name. The fourth from the last verse contains a PLACE name that has become the center name. The sphere of meadim is the place of the dragon chiefs(seraphim) who were the Baals of Canaan; the storm chiefs of old who bring the rain and the upper streams into this world. We now have Barak/lightning and his chief of staff-Rahm/thunder in the white house! What a miracle HaShem! This is a conscious heaven world that is “above” the sun; above the sephirot tiphereth/sun in the traditional tree of the mekubalim. The sephirah of gevurah is directly above tiphereth/sun and is the planet meadim. The tikkun has been acomplished. The "place" in the song where King Solomon kept his "vine" has become the consecrated name-space. the cube of the Holy of holies which has six faces(matriarchs)X the 12 edges(tribes)=6X12=72 surrounding the center point which is the 73, the wise mekubalim hold the significance of this number. From the holiest of songs: this verse contains the singular of Shadai, translated as breasts, and the Peace of the Divine Shechinah:
י אֲנִי חוֹמָה, וְשָׁדַי כַּמִּגְדָּלוֹת; אָז הָיִיתִי בְעֵינָיו, כְּמוֹצְאֵת שָׁלוֹם. {פ} 10

{פ} 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof; then was I in his eyes as one that found peace. {P} יא כֶּרֶם הָיָה לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּבַעַל הָמוֹן, נָתַן אֶת-הַכֶּרֶם לַנֹּטְרִים: אִישׁ יָבִא בְּפִרְיוֹ, אֶלֶף כָּסֶף. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he gave over the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof brought in a thousand(sacred aleph=thousand) pieces of silver.

and here is the 5769th verse of torah with the word Shadayim:(Devarim32:17

יז יִזְבְּחוּ, לַשֵּׁדִים לֹא אֱלֹהַּ-- {ר} אֱלֹהִים, לֹא יְדָעוּם; {ס} חֲדָשִׁים מִקָּרֹב בָּאוּ, {ר} לֹא שְׂעָרוּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶם. {ס} 17

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the stone of the Holy of Holies/Eben Shetiyah

The two primers of the mekubalim tell us that there are three “realms” that make up the entire creation. These are the realm of being whose place is in the heart/lev; the realm of time whose place is in the gilgul/wheel of the year and the realm of space whose place in in the Teli/dragon-axis. “The Teli in the universe is like a king on his throne. The Cycle in the year is like a king in the province. The Heart in the soul is like a king in war.”SYetzira 6:3(Kaplan trans.) In the Sepher haBahir there are parallel Sarim/officers who are the three that are the chiefs over the three realms. Students of the presently popular kabbalah with the 2-D “tree” will know that the three “realms” correspond to the three columns of the traditional popular tree. In the four “worlds” of the exoteric kabbalah the three realms or columns(3X4=12) give us the “twelve arms” or boundaries of the universe that the yetzira explains to us as the edges of the cube described in detail in chapter one of the yetzira. It has been a theme of this blog in various convoluted explanations over the years that the world of the throne, called “beriah” has joined with our physical olam/world in a new way as of the beginning of the 40 year period we entered in 5750/1990. This means that blessings are flowing from the primordial stream of chesed/lovingkindness at the root of the Tree, in a more direct path. When this is eventually more understood and acknowledged, than the blessings will also flow at the material economic level and prosperity will abound for many more people.(it may only depend on one relatively small bank lean on the property that holds the eben shetiyah) The eben shetityah/foundation stone is not only a metaphor but an actual crystalline substance(one of the three saphirim/gems mentioned in chapter one of the Yetzirah but usually translated only metaphorically as text, number and speech. The three crystalline geometries of these three sapphires/gems are the very physical pillars that the universe rests on. The Zohar references continually the three pillars whose colors are red,green and white. The Sepher HaBahir develops the geometries and angelic numbers and this becomes a complex mathematical midrash on the worlds, realms and angels of the hechaloth/palaces as they interface Earth.
In a previous post we referenced the Zohar on the commentary on the six words of the Shema/proclamation prayer of the Jewish faith. It tells us that there are three words that signify the divine but the Rashbi, author of the Zohar did not believe humanity was ready for a deeper significance-explanation of the three. The mystery of the three strangers that visited Abraham Avinu and our mother Sarah, the three realms of the Yetzirah, the three Saphirim of Yetzirah, the three mother elements and the three Sarim/princes-officers are all interconnected. From the Book of Daniel Chapter2:

. מד וּבְיוֹמֵיהוֹן דִּי מַלְכַיָּא אִנּוּן, יְקִים אֱלָהּ שְׁמַיָּא מַלְכוּ דִּי לְעָלְמִין לָא תִתְחַבַּל, וּמַלְכוּתָה, לְעַם אָחֳרָן לָא תִשְׁתְּבִק; תַּדִּק וְתָסֵיף כָּל-אִלֵּין מַלְכְוָתָא, וְהִיא תְּקוּם לְעָלְמַיָּא. 44 And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; nor shall the kingdom be left to another people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, but it shall stand for ever. מה כָּל-קֳבֵל דִּי-חֲזַיְתָ דִּי מִטּוּרָא אִתְגְּזֶרֶת אֶבֶן דִּי-לָא בִידַיִן, וְהַדֵּקֶת פַּרְזְלָא נְחָשָׁא חַסְפָּא כַּסְפָּא וְדַהֲבָא--אֱלָהּ רַב הוֹדַע לְמַלְכָּא, מָה דִּי לֶהֱוֵא אַחֲרֵי דְנָה; וְיַצִּיב חֶלְמָא, וּמְהֵימַן פִּשְׁרֵהּ. {פ} 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold;

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The Great Supreme Court and the 50th gate

The fiftieth gate is the timeless shaar that is Har Sinai. This mountain the Jews have carried on their journey walk encircling the globe of earth. The date of the day of Shavuoth is not stated in Torah like the other yomim tovim. This "place" encompasses all time and space. This is omak v'omak. Depth of Depths which those who know will understand. this 50th which also holds the sephirah of understanding - 50 in binah- is joining with events in the world of doing as the supreme court of nine of the land of the white eagle is radically changed. First eight men surrounding a Jewess-miracle of miracles! and now another woman, the color of America. We have two seats now echoing the upper mother-Binah; and lower mother-Malchuth - two powerful women. Seven men make up the rest of the court. we have mentioned before how the supreme court reflects the native meso-american cosmology of the nine dark robed judges of the underworld of souls. In the wisdom stream it is the box/kamea of nine(3X3) aligned with binah-saturn-shabbatai. The nine may now reflect and channel the purifying stream of chesed from "above" the sun-tiphereth. three seats now above the sun tiphereth and the two mothers surely are a "purifying" majority for a flow of true Chesed into our olam/world. The other seats held by men "below" the sun will be radically purified.

In the above title page of Reb Avraham Azulai's book Chesed L'Avraham we see the white eagle and the pioneers traveling to a new world. In this book written in the early 1600'sc.e.,the great Reb said that the year 5760 (and the whole 576th decade which we are now completing in 5769)would see the beginning of the purifying waters flooding the entire earth. the ancient measure of the mikveh being equal to 5760 eggs in size. The white eagle is across the wheel of the chayoth from the red calf. The world is flooded with the upper waters of chesed. we have the mountain!

depth and silence/Tenth song

These verses are in the "Tikkun layil shavuoth":
יא כֶּרֶם הָיָה לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּבַעַל הָמוֹן, נָתַן אֶת-הַכֶּרֶם לַנֹּטְרִים: אִישׁ יָבִא בְּפִרְיוֹ, אֶלֶף כָּסֶף. (emanation=atziluth)
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he gave over the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof brought in a thousand pieces of silver.
יב כַּרְמִי שֶׁלִּי, לְפָנָי; הָאֶלֶף לְךָ שְׁלֹמֹה, וּמָאתַיִם לְנֹטְרִים אֶת-פִּרְיוֹ. (throne=beriah)
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
יג הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים, חֲבֵרִים מַקְשִׁיבִים לְקוֹלֵךְ--הַשְׁמִיעִנִי. (yetzirah=formation)
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.'
יד בְּרַח דּוֹדִי, וּדְמֵה-לְךָ לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָאַיָּלִים--עַל, הָרֵי בְשָׂמִים. {ש} (active creation=Assiah)
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. {P} (bold in parentheses my addition)
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blessing of Chamah/Shalom Shalem

Deep Solar Minimum
04.01.2009
April 1, 2009: The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.
2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.
Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).
It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
"This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Quiet suns come along every 11 years or so. It's a natural part of the sunspot cycle, discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Schwabe in the mid-1800s. Sunspots are planet-sized islands of magnetism on the surface of the sun; they are sources of solar flares, coronal mass ejections and intense UV radiation. Plotting sunspot counts, Schwabe saw that peaks of solar activity were always followed by valleys of relative calm—a clockwork pattern that has held true for more than 200 years: plot.
The current solar minimum is part of that pattern. In fact, it's right on time. "We're due for a bit of quiet—and here it is," says Pesnell.
Sign up for EXPRESS SCIENCE NEWS delivery But is it supposed to be this quiet? In 2008, the sun set the following records:
A 50-year low in solar wind pressure: Measurements by the Ulysses spacecraft reveal a 20% drop in solar wind pressure since the mid-1990s—the lowest point since such measurements began in the 1960s. The solar wind helps keep galactic cosmic rays out of the inner solar system. With the solar wind flagging, more cosmic rays are permitted to enter, resulting in increased health hazards for astronauts. Weaker solar wind also means fewer geomagnetic storms and auroras on Earth.
A 12-year low in solar "irradiance": Careful measurements by several NASA spacecraft show that the sun's brightness has dropped by 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% at extreme UV wavelengths since the solar minimum of 1996. The changes so far are not enough to reverse the course of global warming, but there are some other significant side-effects: Earth's upper atmosphere is heated less by the sun and it is therefore less "puffed up." Satellites in low Earth orbit experience less atmospheric drag, extending their operational lifetimes. Unfortunately, space junk also remains longer in Earth orbit, increasing hazards to spacecraft and satellites.
A 55-year low in solar radio emissions: After World War II, astronomers began keeping records of the sun's brightness at radio wavelengths. Records of 10.7 cm flux extend back all the way to the early 1950s. Radio telescopes are now recording the dimmest "radio sun" since 1955: plot. Some researchers believe that the lessening of radio emissions is an indication of weakness in the sun's global magnetic field. No one is certain, however, because the source of these long-monitored radio emissions is not fully understood.
All these lows have sparked a debate about whether the ongoing minimum is "weird", "extreme" or just an overdue "market correction" following a string of unusually intense solar maxima.
"Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, solar activity has been generally high," notes Hathaway. "Five of the ten most intense solar cycles on record have occurred in the last 50 years. We're just not used to this kind of deep calm."
Deep calm was fairly common a hundred years ago. The solar minima of 1901 and 1913, for instance, were even longer than the one we're experiencing now. To match those minima in terms of depth and longevity, the current minimum will have to last at least another year.
In a way, the calm is exciting, says Pesnell. "For the first time in history, we're getting to see what a deep solar minimum is really like." Modern technology cannot, however, predict what comes next. Competing models by dozens of top solar physicists disagree, sometimes sharply, on when this solar minimum will end and how big the next solar maximum will be. Pesnell has surveyed the scientific literature and prepared a "piano plot" showing the range of predictions. The great uncertainty stems from one simple fact: No one fully understands the underlying physics of the sunspot cycle.
Pesnell believes sunspot counts will pick up again soon, "possibly by the end of the year," to be followed by a solar maximum of below-average intensity in 2012 or 2013.
But like other forecasters, he knows he could be wrong. Bull or bear? Stay tuned for updates.
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Author: Dr. Tony Phillips Credit: http://science.nasa.gov/

Blessing the Sun of Chesed/Lovingkindness

The Sun of Chesed/lovingkindness and Birchat haChamah
The rarest of Hebrew blessings is now being prepared for the day before the Passover festival on April 8th. The 28 year cycle of Birchat HaChamah is based on the cycle of the planet Shabbatai/saturn, which has a solar orbit of 28 years. This blessing will begin the 207th cycle of 28 years of the Hebrew calendar. 206X28=5768 and so this year 5769 begins the 207th which is the gematria value of the Hebrew word for light/ohr(aleph-vav-resh=207). This also coincides with a new grand solar cycle of the indigenous Mayan and Meso-American traditions. We are now in their sixth sun called Sun of Flower/Xochlitol Ahau. As mentioned earlier the very picture of Sun=Flower is the Zia sun symbol which is the symbol of the state of New Mexico and is actually a depiction of a “smoking mirror“, a total eclipse of the sun. The 28 year cycle which is about the planet that veils time(Shabbatai/Saturn) and all about the “reishit and the acharit“, the dimension of time of beginnings and endings and the relationship to what is eternal. The importance of the indigenous American calendars became clear at the end of the Aztec calendar which the scholar and wise man Tony Shearer elucidated in his book, “Beneath the Moon and Under the Sun”. The Aztec calendar ended on August 16th 1987 and everyone might remember the grassroots festival, the “Harmonic Convergence” on that day. That was the Aztec year 5720 and the Hebrew year was 5747 and a month later it was 5748 for the Jews. This was precisely the 28 years apart of one cycle of the planet that the Aztecs revered as a veil for the deity called Tezcatlipoca(Saturn/Shabbatai)The fact of this difference in two calendars whose counts are in the thousands of years is astounding. It is a pointer to the significant cycle of 28 years. The relationship to the moon cycle of 28 days is also significant)In 1987/5720/5748 we were only two years from the important Hebrew year of 5750/1990 when the Sefer HaZohar predicted the beginning of the 40 years when we transition to a new world. This years blessing of the sun is quite significant, coming precisely in the middle of this period of time. The Zohar has a beautiful passage on the beginning of the Sefer Vayikra of Torah that traditional Jews are beginning to sing this time of year.
“ As soon as the morning was light (haBoker ohr), the men were sent away”(Gen XLIV,3)He said, We have learnt that when morning comes and judgement passes away and lovingkindness(Chesed)seeks to awake, then all who come from that side hasten to their place to prepare blessings for the world; and this is the meaning of the words,”the morning is light(ohr)”, light being synonymous with “good”. Note the following series of grades. ’Night is one grade, as we know. Then “morning light” is another grade, which we also know, a higher grade which always accompanies the other. THE SUN IS A THIRD GRADE (caps are mine here)known to us which establishes all and gives light to all. Thus the “morning light” receives light from the sun, and in turn gives light to the night, so that they are all linked to one another. When this “morning light” awakes, all men are gladdened to go about their business. And now that the day has dawned it is time for us to go on our way.” Zohar III22b(trans after Sperling)
For the American indigenous calendars we are ending both a small 5200 year solar cycle(1987-Aztec to 2012-Mayan) as well as five of these small 5200 year cycles which actually completes a great processional cycle of 26 thousand years. Remember the Earth wobbles once every 26 thousand years which is the precise distance-26 thousand light years to the center of the galaxy. The fact that the 207th blessing of the sun cycle actually equals the gematria of the word in Hebrew for light Aleph-vav-Resh=Ohr is revealing to the unfolding name of flower for the solar period we have entered. The flower is produced from the eternal stream of Chesed/lovingkindness as the theme in Zohar.Yes the first day of the week, Sunday is now a sacred day in a new way in the olam haBo, the “coming world” that we have entered and an extension of the sacred Sabbath, seventh day of the week. Zachor/remember Shabbat Sunday we become a part of a new celebration of the week of days in this flowering world. The seven “days’ of the week in the Sefer Bereishit is a key for understanding the works of “creation” and the unfolding flower of peace.
Verse 1: In the beginning El-him created the heavens and the earth.
Verse 2: The earth was unformed and desolate, and darkness covered the surface of the abyss. The breath of El-him hovered above the surface of the water.
Verse 3: El-him said, "Let there be light(Ohr)." and there was light.
Verse 4: El-him saw that the light was good, and El-him divided the light from the darkness.
Verse 5: El-him called the light day(yom), and the darkness He called night(laylah). It became evening and it became morning, one day (Yom Echad)
(from Metsudah Chumash with Rashi,Hebrew and English, online)
These "seven days" in bereishit are a grand key of understanding for the mekubalim. day one and day four begin a horizontal cycle of time within the vertical descent of the sacred seven. Light emerges on day one/yom echad, but the sun and moon appear on day four. Cycle and time then breaks from the vertical nature of the seven days on day four and so we say the blessing of the sun on Wednesday=day four. one/four times the full seven "days" (4X7= 28) so we have the 28 cycle of years of the sun blessing. however this year is different and the gates of kedusha/holiness that connect day four to day one and the original ohr/light have opened for our olam/world. Likewise a special relationship exists between day two and day five; and day three and day six. The sabbath rests in the middle of the six pointed mogen david of these "days".

Yom Echad and the Blessing of the Sun

The sun is already shining with sevenfold brightness as the state of New Mexico has become the fifteenth state to abolish the death penalty! As in earlier posts the symbol of New Mexico found on the flag and state quarter holds the message of ancient prophecy from Tibet, Ancient Israel and Native wisdom tradition. The glow of Yom Echad/Day One, when the night/laylah and Day/Yom are in regenerative embrace within the echad/unified name of the Divine begins to accelerate a global healing.The prophecy of Reb Avraham Azulai in his book lChesed Abraham becomes clear. He said that in the 576th decade of the Hebrew calendar(beginning 5760) the entire Earth would feel the light of a global Yisrael. The circle of the Zia sun symbol=360 degrees multiplied by the 16 rays(protuberances of total eclipse)360X16=5760 and we have the emergence of a true city that shows Peace to the world=Yerusalyim. We have moved a giant leap now with the end of the death penalty here. The Navi/prophet Isaiah said that Yisrael would be called a city of Holy Faith=Aeer Emunah. We would honor the sacredness of life with the peace of a living Torah. Santa Fe means Holy Faith and the Zia sun symbol is both a 2-D rendition of the wheel chariot of the four living creatures each with four faces(4X4=16) and a depiction of the Tibetan mandala called the KalaChakra/wheel of time.
The symbol has sacred meaning to the Zia Pueblo people. Four is a sacred number which symbolizes the Circle of Life: four winds, four seasons, four directions, and four sacred obligations. The circle binds the four elements of four together. (right out of Zohar/terumah!)The salutation, “I salute the flag of the State of New Mexico and the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures." The school children of New Mexico say this pledge for friendship of diverse cultures daily.

This April 8th, the eve of Pesach we have the rare Birchat HaChamah, Blessing of the Sun which occurs only once every 28 years. We are also coming to the completion of a full 19 year turn of the Hebrew calendar and solar/lunar eclipse cycle since the year 5750 when we began the 40 years of the techiyas Hametim/enlivening of the dead and the ingathering of the exiles. This is a great synchronous cycle with this full moon of the Passover. Yom Echad is the first day of the week but also the "eighth day" and the mekubalim understand the implications. This "Sunday" holds and radiates the waters of Chesed/lovingkindness which Abraham Avinu and Sarah our Mother carry in their Chayah being. "And the sun will shine with a sevenfold brilliance".....

Yom Echad/ Day One and the Birchat HaChamah

This weeks Torah parsha Terumah is all about the portable sanctuary known as the Mishkan. It encapsulates the importance of the secret sacred technology that allows the influx of the divine waters into the Earth olam/world. The Zohar goes into a complex and involved explanation of the work of the holy peoples and the grand design to bring the great Peace who is the Divine, into intimate relationship with our world. We are not a people who wait for a reward in the shamayim/heavens. Our life work and purpose is to lift our physical world into an awesome enbrace with the living waters of the heavens. The Mishkan, the tabernacle where the divine presence dwells is all about this purpose. It is movable and in a sense therefore it can not be destroyed like the first two Holy Temples. Where the mishkan functions the eternal Beith HaMikdash interfaces with the physical world It is a theme of these writings that this is already taking place now. In the Zohar commentary on terumah we have an explanation of the Shema and it’s deeper meaning. “ The word Shema consists of Shem(name) and ayin(seventy), indicating the combination of this name and the other seventy from whence it derives blessing. At the recitation of the Shema, therefore, one must concentrate on the divine names. For these seventy names constitute the mystery of the supernal Chariot from whence that Name receives blessing and in which it is contained. Then comes the word Yisrael, referring, as we have learnt, to “Ancient Israel”(Tifereth), so that this emanation may also be included. So “Hear, O Israel”, signifies union of the Spouse and her Husband(ie Malkuth with Tifereth), so that all is in all, and all is one.”Zohar II 160b(trans. After Sperling). The celebration of the Sabbath is the “place” where the “Spouse” dwells and this union of the seventh day with what is actually the third day is an essential part of the work. We count the seven days down from Chesed(day one=sunday) to geburah(day two-Monday) to Tifereth(day three=Tuesday)netzach(day four=Wednesday)to Hod(day five=Thursday) to Yesod(day six=Friday)and then the Sabbath day. Each day/depth actually has ten names within and hence 7X10=70 names mentioned in Zohar. All these are as seeds in the Omak/depth of Binah who is the upper mother/Sarah. Here is the key to make “so that all is in all, and all is one”. This is the unification of the Name here on earth. Earlier in the text of Zohar Terumah is a key to all this about the personages connected to unifying the name “here below”. The Zohar often does this, she has keys and locks hidden in different parts of the texts. So we have “ a song of degrees for the sake of David, the great king who always praises the Great King. But when Solomon came, he sang a song which is high above even that of David, a song which is the very same as that sung by the great ones of the realms above, the PILLARS OF THE UNIVERSE, in honour of the supernal one who is the lord of peace and harmony.” ZoharII 144b(trans. After Sperling) Please notice the words we have capitalized here. The mishkan and the work that the Rashbi teaches about here involves the very unification of the original Yom v’ Laylah; the day and night that were separated with the firmaments on “Yom Sheni”/Day Two(monday). This “repair” of the light of the moon is also a major theme in Zohar especially this section on Terumah. The Song of Solomon holds the secrets of how to rebuild the tabernacle with the precious substances and allow blessing to flow into the Earth. Yom Echad = Day One is the day which holds the unification of the Names. This involves Abraham Avinu who is as the sun in our tradition. His name originally is Av-Ram, the possessor of Ram, which connects him with the most ancient religion of the priests of Ram, a form of Vishnu(divine beingness) in the ancient Sanskrit. The Zohar also gives us hints to the three “sides” of the Shema in “YHVH(1) -Elokeinu(2) -YHVH(3)” is Echad=one. “The mystery contained in the words, “The Lord our God, the Lord”, the mystery of the unity in three aspects(lit. in three sides), has often been referred to by the Holy Lamp(Rashbi), and we are not permitted to enlarge upon what he has said.“ZoharII160b(trans. After Sperling) Secrets of these three “sides” are found in the three aspects of the divine from the Sanskrit of which Abram’s name gives us a connection. Abraham’s day is Day One of the Omak/depth of Chesed. He is the embodiment of Lovingkindness=Chesed. Gematria of Day One/Yom Echad = 69 which is the very number of our year samech(60) teth(9) this very year when we pronounce the birchat HaChamah, the rare blessing of the sun on the day before the full moon of Nissan. The moon of Adar is now the moon of happiness that we can feel now on our faces. She is coming into her completeness in beauty. This blessing of the original ohr/light of the sun is already flooding our world.

Chodesh Adar, the green comet becomes "visible"

This weeks Torah parsha Mishpatim begins with the slave that does not wish to be set free and remains in bondage. It ends with the 70 elders of Israel, a remez/hint to all the 70 nations of the world/olam actually seeing haShem , “They saw the Elohai Yisrael, and under His feet was the likeness of sapphire brickwork, and it was like the essence of heaven in purity…….they gazed at HaElohim, yet they ate and drank.” Shemot24:11. This is an incredible posuk which leads into the receiving of the luchoth haeben/tablets of stone on the mountain. The parsha begins with slavery and then speaks about many ordinances, commandments dealing with various day to day challenges. These end with the famous injunction to not seethe a kid in it’s mothers milk from which the laws of dietary concerns come. Rabbi Gershon Winkler reminds us in his teachings that this involves the need to allow different essences to remain simply what they are. The milk is the essence of the mother and the flesh of the kid is it’s bodily essence. Let them be what they are in their unique nature, as we let each other be our unique human selves. The Zohar relates much of this parsha to the gilgalim, the reincarnation or transmigration of souls in order to attain a deeper connection to the divine.This really is all about unique essence. The quality of the omakim, the depths of the journey we each pursue in our life path. “Many are the worlds through which they (souls)revolve, and each revolution is wondrous in many hidden ways, but men neither know nor perceive these things! Nor do they know how the souls roll about “like a stone inside a sling”. Now as we have begun to disclose these mysteries, it is opportune to reveal that all souls(neshamah) emanate from a high and mighty Tree, from that “River which goes out of Eden”(Gen.II:10), and all spirits(ruach)from another, smaller Tree - the souls from above and spirits from below- and they unite after the fashion of male and female. And when they unite they shine with a celestial light….”Zohar II99b(trans after Sperling). This Sabbath is the blessing for the new month of Rosh Chodesh Adar whose full moon is the festival of Purim when the light of the soul world shined in the exile of Persia without the standing Holy temple. The people merited the joyous light by their own deeds and living of Torah. The value in gematria of Esther HaMalka/the queen is the same=761=of the last three words of Chumash/Torah- “Leaynai Kol Yisrael”/ before the eyes of all of Yisrael. The Queen is the big Chayah as the Malchut, the Divine Presence and the Zohar tells us at the end of mishpatim; “They saw the Elohai of Yisrael”, that is to say, the Shechinah manifestated Herself to them”Zohar II 126a(trans after Sperling). This parsha moves from slavery through the ordinances and the transmigrations to the freedom of beholding the Divine Presence by connecting to the chayah/life soul of humanity who is before all the eyes of the holy peoples. We are always moving from dinim/judgments and “ordinances” to Chesed, the lovingkindness that is the river who flows from the Tree. Happy new moon of the month of happiness!

sword of peace/Kerubim comet Lulin and Shadayim

This weeks Torah parsha of Yisro tells us to “Zachor et hayom haShabbat Lekadsho” from Shemot 20:8 as written on the Luchoth Habanim/the tablets of the ten devarim/sayings. This is different from the later version of the Ten Sayings where we have the “shomar”/guarding of the Shabbat. We are always to Zachor/remember the Sabbath, every day and every night, and the Ramban tells us about this in his commentaries. We live in days of awesome miracles. Do we remember miracles? If the sacredness of our times were only slightly more experienced we would even more quickly move into the next phase of this 40 year ingathering of exiles; “kibbutz goliot” which began in 5750 as predicted in Sepher HaZohar. We are told in Shemot:19:16 that there was “Barak-im”/lightning on the mountain and we here it again loudly in our times. The mountain of Sinai is trembling now folks. A New kochav/comet is making close passage to our Earth during these 42 days of Shovavim(first 6 parshot/weeks of Sepher Shemot) and as we move into Rosh Chodesh Adar it will complete a special 45 day period in its long millennial orbit around the sun( from perihelion to perigee=45 days). As previously mentioned this same segment of the orbital period of another famous kochav that made a bright sword like appearance in 66CE which some say presaged the destruction of the Beith HaMikdash and the beginning of exile of Edom/Rome., has profound implications. Both Comet Halley(called in Talmud the "70 year star") and the new comet with the Hebrew root name leyl/night-Comet Lulin are very rare in that they both orbit the sun in the opposite direction of the planets. These comets seem to be directly related to the cryptic keitz count of days at the end of Sepher Daniel. 1290 days equals the added number of days in the 26(26=YHVH) orbital periods of Comet Halley since 66CE(26X49.6=1290),of this special period from perihelion(rounding the sun) to perigee(close passage to Earth) that with this new Comet Lulin equals precisely 45 days. And so the starry night sky is speaking to us now as we dance in the Hebrew year 5769 which brings us to an unusual Torah verse in the Song Of Moses in Devarim-the 5769th verse of Torah. This contains a rare word translated as demons-shedim, but which also can be read as Shadayim which we are told in commentaries on The Shir HaShirim/Song of Songs is a remez/hint to the Shnei Luchoth as twin breasts holding the revelation of Sinai. This word in the 5769th Torah verse not only hints at the twin tablets as breasts of the Shechinah being revealed anew in this year 5769, but as the twin Kerubim whose fiery swords guard the way to gan eden. The kochav/comet in the sky right now is a manifestation of the revolving fiery sword that brings the truth of the shalom shalem/great complete Peace to our temple Earth. Good Shabbos and Zachor!

TuB'Shevat/Comet Lulin/Shemhamphorash and Nostradamus

Last week we sang the song of the sea and the parsha Beshalach contains those very important three verses of seventy two letters each. These three verses in the book of Shemot/names are the hidden star clock that tell us we we are in the continuum of beginnings/reshit and endings/acharit. Depth of beginning and depth of ending as the sepher yetzira calls these "depths'/omakim. The twentysecond of the seventy two names is associated with the priesthood of Yisrael. The three letters yod-yod-yod are the initial letters of the priestly blessing. The yod is also the beginning “seed” of all letters and so like stem cells they are the wild cards and the source of all the 22 autiot and thus the 72 names. Each of the 72 names have command of five degrees of the 360 degree circle of space; 72 X 5 = 360. The wobble of the Earth globe causes the stars of the shamayim to move through the wheel of the 72 spaces. A complete revolution taking 26,000 years. The ancient sages knew this and watched the night sky as a clock. The stars known as the teomim/twins of Gemini started to traverse the 22nd space of the clock in the 1400’s CE. The star beta Gemini left the space of Yod-Yod-Yod in the year 1990. For 500 years the completing of the true work of the Hebrew priesthood, to unite all the soul lineages of humanity needed to take place as the Teomom/twins transversed the 22nd name. For nine years(1990-1999) there were no major stars in the sacred space of the 22nd name. Then in the year 5760/1999 one of the brightest stars in the sky entered the place of the 22nd name; Canopus. This and the star Sirius are the brightest stars in the night sky. Canopus is the brightest star of the southern sky. It is called the pilot star of the fifty “oarmen” stars that make up the constellation of Argo. In Sanskrit this is argha, the ark. This is a remez/hint to the shaar haNun, the fifty gates of kedusha/holiness of the mekubalim. The Arabic astronomers called this brilliant star Suhail and students of the seventy two names will know that this is one of the names! Sael which is the name of the guardian of Rome/Edom samael; with the mem removed. This transformation of the sar/prince of Rome is a key to the end of this last “exile” of the holy peoples. This very important name, Sael, is the forty fifth of the series. And so we fathom the forty five days right now the comet Lulin whose name contains the Hebrew root for night(Leyl) comes by the Earth and grows into naked eye visibility by Rosh chodesh Adar. The night sky is singing to us. From the year 5760 and for 350 years the bright star Suhail will be in the sacred space of the seventy names, in the night sky. The great Rebbe Abraham Azulai predicted in his book L’chesed Abraham that the year 5760 would mark the beginning of the time when the borders of Yisrael would encircle the entire Earth. He understood the 72 names as a secret star clock. So did the famous and misunderstood French seer, Nostradamus who also mentioned the one date 1999 as the time when the “king of Awe’ would come from the “sky”. 1999 coincided with the Hebrew year 5760. This quatrain of the French seer was very rare in mentioning a precise date on the Gregorian calendar.
Today is the full moon of the month of the holy Shevat/scepter. The sacred Tree is once again in flower!

The Laylah/Night speaks/Comet lulin and the forty five days of Daniel

This new moon of Shevat, the month of the Tree, begins with an annular eclipse of the sun.

The starry sky is a book of the heavens and earth for those who can read it like the Rabbi and son from the tale about the precious book of Daniel in the time of the Babylonian King. We are now in a forty five day period as a new kochav/comet moves from it’s perihelion passage of the sun(full moon of tevet) towards perigee(close passage with Earth) on Rosh Chodesh Adar. The night sky is always singing to us if we could only hear. This weeks parsha on Bo has an incredible posuk on the night that lead to the original geulah/redemption and making of the people of Yisrael. “It is a night(leyl) of anticipation for haShem to take them out of the land of Mitzrayim/Egypt, this was the night(laylah) for haShem; a protection for all the Children of Yisrael for their generations”(Shemot/Ex:12:42). The Zohar has a fantastic commentary on these two forms of night mentioned here. “”the night shined as day; the darkness was a light(Ps.cxxxix,13). Nothing so miraculous was witnessed since the creation of the world.”Come and see” he said, it is written: “It is a night(leyl) of observations unto HaShem for bringing them out of the land of Mitzrayim; this is a night(laylah) of HaShem…Now, why “observations(shamurim) in plural , and :night” first in the masculine gender(leyl) and then in the feminine(laylah? To indicate the union which took place on that night between masculine and feminine aspects in the Divine attributes, and also the same union which will take place in the future redemption”….Zohar II38b(trans. After Sperling) And now we are in that “future” redemption and the night of this winter is being thrilled with a new kochav/comet whose passage past Earth corresponds with the six weeks of Shovavim(first six parshot of Shemot/exodus) that bring the wheel/shanah of the year from winter to spring(from exile to freedom). The forty five days seem to say that they are a remez/hint to the words in the Book of Daniel chapter 12, about the need in the keitz; the “end of days”, to wait for 45 days after the completion of an initial 1290 days. Much speculation has been done on these periods of time. This new comet Lulin is very rare in that it moves opposite the general motion of the planets in the solar system. It is like another very famous comet with a brilliant history(mentioned in Talmud as the 70 year star) and that is Halley’s comet. In the Talmud, it is mentioned that "There is a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err" (Horioth, chap. III). Halley’s bright passage in the secular year 66 CE presaged the destruction of the second temple and the long period of exile and diaspora. If we add up the number of days in each orbit of this comet Halley which is now in it’s 26th (gematria 26=YHVH)orbital period since the temple was destroyed; adding the the days that it moved from perihelion to perigee in each orbit when it was visible(about 49 to 50 days), we come very close to the figure of 1290 days mentioned in sepher Daniel as the time period since the Temple offerings ended. The angel in the Sepher Daniel told Daniel that the counts would not make sense until the period of the keitz/end when knowledge would be "increased". Is the Laylah/night speaking to us now pretty clearly. After the forty five days is passed on the new moon of Adar(feb24th) we will have more to say about how the blessing of the union of the nights is streaming into our new Earth. Remember/Zachor the Sabbath!