Day Two of Week 5: Gevurah of Hod
30th Day of the Omer
Humility must be disciplined and focused. When should my humility cause me to compromise and when not? In the name of humility do I sometimes remain silent and neutral in the face of wickedness?
Another aspect of gevurah of hod: Humility must include respect and awe for the person or experience you stand humble for. If my humility is wanting, is it because I don't respect another?
Exercise for the day: Focus in on your reluctance in any given area to see if it originates from a healthy, humble place.
Day Two of Week 5: Gevurah of Hod
30th Day of the Omer
Humility must be disciplined and focused. When should my humility cause me to compromise and when not? In the name of humility do I sometimes remain silent and neutral in the face of wickedness?
Another aspect of gevurah of hod: Humility must include respect and awe for the person or experience you stand humble for. If my humility is wanting, is it because I don't respect another?
Exercise for the day: Focus in on your reluctance in any given area to see if it originates from a healthy, humble place.
Day One of Week 5: Chesed of Hod
29th Day of the Omer
Week Five - Hod
If endurance is the engine of life humility is its fuel. As gevurah (discipline) gives chesed (love) focus, hod gives netzach direction.
Humility is the silent partner of endurance. Its strength is in its silence. Its splendor in its repose. Humility leads to yielding, which is an essential element of Humility - and the resulting yielding - should not be confused with weakness and lack of self-esteem.
Humility is modesty; it is acknowledgement (from the root "hoda'ah"). It is saying "thank you" to G‑d. It is clearly recognizing your qualities and strengths and acknowledging that they are not your own; they were given to you by G‑d for a higher purpose than just satisfying your own needs. Humility is modesty; it is recognizing how small you are which allows you to realize how large you can become. And that makes humility so formidable.
Endurance draws its energy from the acknowledgement of humility. Human endurance goes only as far as your tolerance level. Acknowledging that your strengths come from a higher place gives you the power to endure far beyond your own perceived capacity. It gives you part of G‑d's enduring strength.
A full cup cannot be filled. When you're filled with yourself and your needs, "I and nothing else", there is no room for more. When you "empty" yourself before something which is greater than yourself, you allow in much more than your limited capacity. Humility is the key to transcendence; to reach beyond yourself. Only true humility gives you the power of total objectivity.
Humility is sensitivity; it is healthy shame out of recognition that you can be better than you are and that you expect more of yourself. Although humility is silent it is not a void. It is a dynamic expression of life that includes all seven qualities of love, discipline, compassion, endurance, humility, bonding and sovereignty. Humility is active not passive. Not a state of being but an interaction even in its calm and inaction.
Day One of Week 5: Chesed of Hod
Examine the love in your humility. Healthy humility is not demoralizing; it brings love and joy not fear. Humility that lacks love has to be reexamined for its authenticity. Sometimes humility can be confused with low self-esteem, which would cause it to be unloving.
Humility brings love because it gives you the ability to rise above yourself and love another. Arrogance in the guise of love means loving yourself, or what is even worse: making others a part and an extension of yourself and your self-love.
Does my humility cause me to be more loving and giving? More expansive? Or does it inhibit and constrain me? Am I humble and happy or humble and miserable?
Exercise for the day: Before praying with humility and acknowledgment of G‑d, give some charity. It will enhance your prayers.
Day One of Week 5: Chesed of Hod
29th Day of the Omer
Week Five - Hod
If endurance is the engine of life humility is its fuel. As gevurah (discipline) gives chesed (love) focus, hod gives netzach direction.
Humility is the silent partner of endurance. Its strength is in its silence. Its splendor in its repose. Humility leads to yielding, which is an essential element of Humility - and the resulting yielding - should not be confused with weakness and lack of self-esteem.
Humility is modesty; it is acknowledgement (from the root "hoda'ah"). It is saying "thank you" to G‑d. It is clearly recognizing your qualities and strengths and acknowledging that they are not your own; they were given to you by G‑d for a higher purpose than just satisfying your own needs. Humility is modesty; it is recognizing how small you are which allows you to realize how large you can become. And that makes humility so formidable.
Endurance draws its energy from the acknowledgement of humility. Human endurance goes only as far as your tolerance level. Acknowledging that your strengths come from a higher place gives you the power to endure far beyond your own perceived capacity. It gives you part of G‑d's enduring strength.
A full cup cannot be filled. When you're filled with yourself and your needs, "I and nothing else", there is no room for more. When you "empty" yourself before something which is greater than yourself, you allow in much more than your limited capacity. Humility is the key to transcendence; to reach beyond yourself. Only true humility gives you the power of total objectivity.
Humility is sensitivity; it is healthy shame out of recognition that you can be better than you are and that you expect more of yourself. Although humility is silent it is not a void. It is a dynamic expression of life that includes all seven qualities of love, discipline, compassion, endurance, humility, bonding and sovereignty. Humility is active not passive. Not a state of being but an interaction even in its calm and inaction.
Day One of Week 5: Chesed of Hod
Examine the love in your humility. Healthy humility is not demoralizing; it brings love and joy not fear. Humility that lacks love has to be reexamined for its authenticity. Sometimes humility can be confused with low self-esteem, which would cause it to be unloving.
Humility brings love because it gives you the ability to rise above yourself and love another. Arrogance in the guise of love means loving yourself, or what is even worse: making others a part and an extension of yourself and your self-love.
Does my humility cause me to be more loving and giving? More expansive? Or does it inhibit and constrain me? Am I humble and happy or humble and miserable?
Exercise for the day: Before praying with humility and acknowledgment of G‑d, give some charity. It will enhance your prayers.
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Thought for Today: Monday May 08:
Elohiym is with you and for you. You face nothing alone! When you feel anxious, know that you are focussing on the visible world and leaving YHVH out of the picture. The remedy is simple – Fix your eyes not on what is seen, but what is on unseen. Verbalize your trust in YHVH, the Living One Who sees you always. He will get you safely through this day and all your days. But you can find Him only in the present. Each day is a precious gift from Elohiym our Father. How ridiculous to grasp for future gifts when today’s gift is set before you! Receive today’s gift gracefully, unwrapping it tenderly and delving into its depths. As you savour this gift, you find Him.
SERIES O --- RETURN TO THE LAND --- LESSON 10
THE WORD READ
THE BOOK OF THE LAW IS READ
From Nehemiah 8:1-9:5
About the middle of September, the people of Israel gathered in the square in front of the Water Gate and asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses which Adonai had given to Israel. Ezra therefore brought the book before the great gathering of people as they waited to hear it read. From early morning until noon Ezra read to those who had gathered, and the people listened attentively. He stood on a wooden platform which was made for this purpose. Beside him at his right hand stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah. At his left hand stood Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. When Ezra stood on the platform above the people, he opened the scroll, and the people stood up. Then Ezra gave praise to Adonai, the great YHVH, and all the people responded [Amen, Amen] while they lifted their hands. Then they bowed low to worship Adonai with their faces to the ground. While the people remained in their places, Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiab, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah explained the law to the people as each passage was read. But when the people understood the commands of the law, they began to weep. Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people tried to comfort the people. [You must not cry today,] they urged, [for this day is holy to Adonai your YHVH. Instead, you should celebrate by eating and drinking good food and sharing it with someone who has nothing prepared. Do not mourn, for the joy of Adonai is your strength.] The Levites also joined in comforting the people by saying, [Don’t weep, for this is a holy and joyful day.] The people went from that place to eat and drink and to share their food with others. They had a great festival, for now at last they understood the words which the law spoke to them. On the following day the heads of families, along with the priests and Levites, met with Ezra to see what new truth they could learn from the law. They learned that Adonai had commanded Moses that the people of Israel should live in tents during the feast of the seventh month, the Feast of Tabernacles which was to be held that very month. They learned also that this feast should be proclaimed throughout the land, especially in Jerusalem, calling for the people to gather branches from the olive, myrtle, palm, and fig trees in the hills, and to make with them booths where they could live during the feast. The people went to the hills and gathered the branches and made booths with them. Some booths were made on the flat rooftops of the people’s houses, others in their courtyards, and still others in the great square before the house of YHVH, in the square by the Water Gate, and the one before the Gate of Ephraim. All who had returned from captivity made booths and lived in them during the feast and were very joyful. This had not been done since the time of Joshua the son of Nun. On each of the seven days of the feast Ezra read from the Book of the Law of YHVH. On the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the Law. On the twenty-fourth day of the month, which was October 10, the people assembled in Jerusalem again, wearing sackcloth and fasting, and with dust upon their heads. The people of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners. For a fourth of the day, they stood in their place and read from the Law of Adonai, and for another fourth of the day they confessed their sins and worshiped Adonai. Some of the Levites, including Jeshua, Kadmi-el, Bani, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiab, Bani, and Chenani, stood on the platform and praised Adonai with a loud voice. Then other Levites joined in calling for the people to worship. [Stand up and praise Adonai, who is from everlasting to everlasting,] they said. [Praise His glorious name, which is higher than all blessing and praise.]
COMMENTARY
THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM IN NEHEMIAH’S TIME
The Jews who returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile moved from a comfortable, settled existence to one of hard labour and personal sacrifice. Work on the walls was long and difficult. The day began at sunrise, and ended not much before sunset. Arms were kept nearby; the sound of a horn would alert everyone to gather and prepare to do battle. The people who were not at work on the walls were kept busy by the daily need to furnish food for the Levites, priests, porters, singers and Nethinim. Ezra restored the place of the Law of Moses in the Jews’ lives by having the scribes give public readings. They had to learn the law, and follow it, confess their waywardness and establish a new Covenant with YHVH. Eventually, Nehemiah compelled one out of ten returned Jews to live inside Jerusalem itself. A larger population meant a more secure city and a safer populace; it would also help the city grow in size and wealth.
One of Abba's messengers brought me a beautiful gerber daisy for my garden today! What a blessing and a treat.
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