We are concluding the second week of our journey. The week in Gevurah ends by bringing in Malchut, the lowest sefirah. The channel of Light reaches from the left shoulder to the base of the spine.

Malchut is the Kingdom. It is the sefirah of our earthly existence, receiving the energies from the entire Tree. In most kabbalistic sources, it is the place of the indwelling presence, called Shechinah, the feminine aspect of the Divine One. It is our task to build a holy temple for Shechinah to reside in this realm. This is done through the reintegration of Holy Energies in our lives.

Malchut seems like the land of limitations—limitations that we impose by measurement and judgement. It is the place in which we become dissonant and lose ourselves in unconscious drives and desires. At the same time, we are called upon to remember in this land of forgetting. We are the ones with the possibility of awakening in the land of the sleepers.

This whole week in Gevurah has been filled with the challenge of realising the necessity of limitation, to perceive the appropriateness of the forms through which One might speak. In Malchut we are surrounded with forms that seem silent, so it is our task to learn to listen more carefully, to become receptive to that which is hidden right in front of our eyes.

Malchut brings to Gevurah the ultimate expression of Its form. In Malchut we need to challenge Gevurah to hold less tightly to the structures it creates, that the worlds which follow might know growth and evolution.

Each of the seven weeks of our counting concludes with the focus at Malchut. If we can balance ourselves here, we can bring heaven and earth together. The way to bring shalom, peace within our selves is to balance our internal and external lives, the inner tensions of awareness and confusion, and the external tensions of material existence with its unending needs and desires.

So the last day of this week holds special promise. In our meditations, we celebrate the awakening of Malchut in Gevurah.