Kabbalah for Today – Installment 6
Hello! My name is Gail Ginsberg welcome to installment 6 of Kabbalah for today. A practice guide to traditional Jewish mysticism updated for you today. We are continuing our discussion of the traditional Kabbalistic image of the Sephirot which presents us with an image creative process of God, attributes of God and also essences of our self in a sense that we according to Genesis 1 are created in the image of God. So, it is up to us to more clearly, impurely reflect God image as we grow spiritually throughout our life. And essence to clean our mirrors to become more perfect reflector of God’s love and God’s various, components of attributes in this world in this life.
The fifth Sephirot is known as Gevurah or strength, sometimes also referred to us din or judgment. This balances the last Sephirot we discuss that *** or compassion. All of these characteristics are held intention in balance with one another. We mention last time that compassion is feeling with another, truly feeling with another, the additional component of actually wanting to do something to help.
Gevurah or strength holds compassions and balance by giving you boundaries. If we operated only with compassion, we would be lacking in judgment. There is times which when we must put up boundaries for our self as boundaries around our behavior. Even boundaries around our generosity, we must exercise sound judgment, we must have to strength to have healthy intact boundaries.
Now in the other hand if we were characterized only by Gevurah strengths or judgments, we would destroy everything we came in contact with. Too much strength is destructive, too much judgment is destructive. If you ever come in contact to someone who is characterized by such a judgmental strong attitude, that there is no compassion exhibit for any of our flaws or weakness as it is very destructive. It is even understood in Kabbalistic tradition that evil stems from in access of Gevurah. Pure judgment leads to evil, pure compassion leads to faulty behavior in another dimension. So, we need to hold the two in balance over things and powers. Judaism teaches us the middle way. In the middle way we find balance, we find harmony, we find peace, and we are given boundaries in our lives because we have been given also the gift of free will.
According to Jewish teachings, human beings are free to make choices; we are not as according to Christian doctrine bound by original sin. We are free beings; we can choose for evil, we can choose for good. And so god has given us the gift of the Torah to guide us, to give us boundaries, to give us strength. So, as you look at your life and you think of areas where you are either lacking in strength or exhibiting an access of judgmental strength. Seek to find the balance, if you are lacking on strength, focus on strength; if you are lacking in compassion focus that and bring yourself into the middle so you can truly image the compassionate yet strong love of God.
Now, in terms of a meditation, I would encourage you to begin us on always with the 3 se** of breathing and focus yourself on your core on a very center of your being where you will find the strength. There is center within us that is the center of strength, find that place, draw energy to help you enjoy and feel it, feel the balance center of energy within yourself and pray that – that be bounded by compassion.
Now as we go through this Sephirot you will find that there are times when you are going to want more compassion, wanting more strength, wanting more wisdom, whatever and you want to go back to meditation for Sephirot that indeed focuses on that particular aspect of yourself.
So, I wish to you God’s peace, God’s blessing, and God’s joy always in the next installment we will talk about Sefirot or beauty.
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