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From the prayer: Praise You Who illuminates all the world and its inhabitants, which He created with the attribute of mercy. All will thank You, Selah!
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A prayer at the edge, do not abandon us in the wilderness.
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Blessed is He Who spoke, and the world came into being--blessed is He. We shall laud You with praises and songs. This painting includes the desert at night and a little danger and the promise of Jerusalem.
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Turquoise pool near the ruins at night as the heat recedes. There is Jacob in the near distance, communing with angels. Genesis 28:16 is one of my favorite passages.
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From Eliahu Klein's book on the Mysticism of Isaac Luria, founder of modern Kabbalah
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For my son's excellent English teacher.
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From Jeremiah 2:2:
Thus said Hashem, I remember for your sake the kindness of your youth, the love of your bridal days, your following after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
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This is influenced by the Teaching Company lecture series on the ancient history of the Land Between the Rivers and by current events. She represents Israel, in place between the Hittites of Asia Minor in the North and the Assyrians and Babylonians ... Read more »
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God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate between water and water...God called to the firmament: "Heaven." And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. Genesis 1:6
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This is a synthesis of Yoga classes where one of the goals is to pull yourself to a different place and the lecture series on Joseph Campbell, the deeply religious/spiritual mythologist who coined the phrase, "Follow your bliss." He said M ... Read more »
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From Psalm 146:
Halleluyah! Praise Hashem, O my Soul! I will praise Hashem while I live, I will make music to my God while I exist. Do not rely on nobles, nor on a human being for he holds no salvation.
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From Eliahu Klein's book "Kabbalah of Creation": The Supernal Emanator saw the vessels He created had shattered for the light was overpowering and they could not contain this light; thus, it arose in His will to recreate all these worlds s ... Read more »
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She is just kicking back, waiting for her man, in front of some Pella windows before the world, as we became accustomed to it, ended.
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From "Kabbalah of Creation" by Eliahu Klein:
This is the meaning of the prayer:
"I form the light and create Darkness."
The one who forms light is revealed;
as it says "create Darkness,"
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Joseph Campbell writes of a Buddhist figure known as a Tara, said to be the personification of a tear of divine compassion. The word connotes the ideas of traversing, liberating and escaping. From Joseph Campbell's book, The Mythic Image.
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For Deborah. And he dreamt, and behold! A ladder was set earthward and its top reached heavenward; and behold! angels of G-d were ascending and descending on it. Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely Hashem is present in this place and I ... Read more »