Each day of the week we bring the energies of the seven lower sefirot into the sefirah of the week. This week our focus has been at Chesed, the sefirah of Lovingkindness. On this, the seventh and final day of the week, we bring Malchut, the Kingdom, the “lowest”, densest, manifestations of energy, into Chesed. The most subtle and the most mundane, the “highest” and the “lowest”, of our meditations are joined today.

They will meet again on the first day of the seventh week, when the “host” sefirah will have reversed, and Malchut will welcome Chesed.^[1]

Now the energies reach downward into the world of our experience. In Malchut we manifest using all the flavours of the upper vessels. Malchut is the intrusion of the Holy into the space(s) of the manifest, where it is hidden in the husks of materiality. Today we focus on experiencing this space as as an expression of the Loving energy of Chesed, providing a grounding for the fullness of the Tree – for each sefirah contains an entire tree.

Our meditations for this day focus on the energies of the sefirot at the right shoulder and the base of the spine^[2] and the channel between the two. The space of Loving energies welcomes the manifestation of the “real” world.^[3]

In the literal Omer period, following Passover, this is the final day of the Passover celebration for this year. Tomorrow evening we enjoy fresh chametz, bread made with leavening. Our ancient tradition speaks to the healing that is accomplished through this first week of meditative focusing. We are renewing our awareness of the multi-dimensionality of our being, and opening ourselves to an ever-expanding journey. It is certainly time to celebrate.

Reflections

Receiving lovingly, receiving kindly – loving, kind reception (receiving)

Note to R’ Falcon:

Now the energy of the world of our experience moves into Chesed to balance the Tree there, for each sefirah contains an entire Tree. In turn, the fullness of Chesed connects today to this world. In Malchut all the flavours of the upper vessels manifest, but the Holy is hidden in husks of materiality. Today, this space is held in the Loving embrace of Chesed, as Malchut provides a grounding for the fullness of Chesed.

I understand the dynamic to be expressed this way. Each week for the seven days of the week, I focus on a specific sefirah and experience that week “through the eyes/consciousness/awareness of that sefirah during the whole of that week. For that reason, I begin that week with a deep meditation on the energy of the sefirah. Then, each day of the week, I focus on the interaction (awakening) of one of the sefirot in the space of the “weekly” sefirah.

Let us say that I now look, with the consciousness of the weekly sefirah at/through a specific daily sefirah. At, if I look at it as an external sefirah. Through, if I look at it as one of the “personalities” within the current weekly sefirah—like seeing it from that sefirah’s perspective (within the purview of the current weekly sefirah).

One of the ways of expressing this is through syntax. I would look at the weekly sefirah as being the subject of the sentence, and the daily as being the object thereof.

I place myself at the centre of the circle, and the six points of the natural hexagon of the circle at the other 6 sefirot – like 6 portals that I look at from the center, focusing each day on one of them.

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