The movements we make with the Four Kinds each day of Sukkot are a meditation on bringing our emotions into balanced harmony. This meditation is grounded in the ... More
The movements we make with the Four Kinds each day of Sukkot are a meditation on bringing our emotions into balanced harmony. This meditation is grounded in the kavanot of the Ari, as explained in the siddur of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
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interesting how the therapeutic movement of lulav & estrog creates harmony, (like yoga, tai chi, & 'sitting' meditation) ...
& you also show a balance of energy fields, kabbalistically speaking, with the power of the hebrew names (as shown in the diagram).
As in, by extension, the therapeutic field of energy psychology, where there is a perceived relationship between auras, color & the magnetic resonance of healing sounds ...
Where Joseph's coat of many colors is the auric field, & the inner armour of the physical (& spiritual) body is strengthened & balanced by the power of the hebrew letters... in this way the field energy of the body would be balanced, healed & made whole.
Just a thought.
L'Chaim.
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i especially found your remarks about the 'why more than 3 hasidim' very illuminating.
: please forgive my ignorance, but ... is the state of the 'arbah minim' the mature state? or is this just 1 level of reading it?
is this about physical alignment as it exists within us ... since it is the 'daat of the person who is moving them in 6 directions'
is it just the luluv & estrog that is ultimately moved in 6 directions? i liked your diagram, but i felt, being a seasoned meditator & a longtime yoga student, that somewhere, did there need to be a place for the upward spiral of the human sitting in yogic pose?
{seriously, i think to a scientist this would be quantum physics!!}
bravo & thanks for your guidance.
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Very informative. the program will, I hope, give more meaning toward my davening
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Can You Make It downloadable? Thank you.
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Someone wrote, asking: If the hadasim are the three midot of chesed, gevura, tiferet, why would you need more than 3 hadassim? And why not more than 2 willows which represent the reactive emotions of competing and surrendering if those emotions are the more difficult ones to change anyway?
My response:
In an immature person, the midot of chesed/gevurah/tiferet are wrapped within the reactive midot of netzach/hod/yesod. Within them are furthered wrapped the intellect--chochmah/bina/daat. This is what the Zohar calls "three within three." It is represented by the korban Pesach where the head was roasted on the belly of the Pesach lamb--since Pesach is the birth of the Jewish People.
In a mature person, all has been unfolded: The intellect dominates over the midot and the higher midot over the lower ones. That is the state of the arbah minim: The aravot are hidden within the hadasim and the entire arba minim are dominated by the daat of the person who is moving them in six directions.
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Someone wrote, asking: In the Shema Yisrael, we are told to meditate on how G-d is found in all four directions--represented by the last letter of the word "echad"--the dalet, which is the fourth letter of the alefbet. Why here do we meditate on six directions?
My response:
א = אלופו של עולם
ח = ז' רקיעים וארץ
ד = ד' רוחות העולם
Echad is spelled alef chet dalet
Alef (1) stands for the Master of the World
Chet (8) stands for the seven heavens and the earth
Dalet (4) stands for the four directions ("winds") of the world
It turns out that the directions of up and down are covered by the letter chet.
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Rabbi Tzvi Freeman has a joyous job of explaining this to the masses. i would think it wouldn't be an easy job but still a joy to even teach to others. Some day all Jew will be able to go back to the desert and plant these seeds. We should plant the seeds of Chessed, Gerurah, Tiferret, Netzach,Hod ,Yesod, Malchut. So that G-d can truly trust us to take care of His Garden once again. For G-d is here and G-d is there, G-d is truly everywhere.
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Thank you so much, I love you, you are the best
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i think i saw this ritual/mitzvah performed outside a greatful dead show once. i can see why now you call yourselves a tribe of israel. there are other tribes on the planet who also perform rituals very similiar. all in all i find the ceremony peaceful and if it brings any light into the heart and soul of any human being..... so be it.
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Thank you so much for giving this enlightened teaching to many of us who have not known about the spiritual balance and harmony involved in this mitzvah. Shaking Lulav will be incredibly more meaningful with this added understanding.
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