We begin the final week of our counting. It is the week of Malchut, the tenth sefirah. Malchut is the Kingdom, representing this world in which all the energies of the Tree of Life converge and manifest. According to some Kabbalistic formulations, this is the sefirah of Shechinah, the indwelling Presence, the feminine aspect of God’s Oneness. This is the material world in which the spiritual awaits realisation.

Malchut is the place in which we play out our earthly drama. We are born into this Kingdom much as we are born into our bodies. Our purpose here is to realise Who we are, that we might contribute to the completion of Creation in this realm.^[1]

Into Malchut we bring Chesed. We bring blessing from the place of Lovekindness into the lower sefirah which is so in need to that Love and Blessing. The Light today connects the base of the spine and the right shoulder.

In Malchut there is so much confusion. It is so difficult to tell exactly what is going on. The days of this week attain special importance as we seek to perceive the manifestation of higher energies in this material world. In some ways, Malchut is the most crucial sefirah, since it is the "place" we live. Malchut provides the ground for Creation to manifest. Malchut is the sefirah where the Presence can be met.
We are challenged to discover the Light within a world of light and shadow. So we begin this week in Malchut with Lovingkindness.

Lovingkindness infuses my world now. Its gentle Radiance illuminates all levels of my universe. Through that Light, I celebrate all Life about me. My world is blessed with Love.

Reflections

Footnotes

1. I would have thought the the very process of being born into the body, of embodying form, would be one and the same with the “spiritual” birth in which we are playing out this drama. ↩︎