Netzach she'b Malkhut
הָיום שִׁשָּׁה וְארבעים יָוֹם שֶׁהֵם שִׁשָּׁה שָׁבוּעוֹת וְאַרְבָּעָה יָמִים לָעוֹמֵרֹToday is forty-six days, which is six weeks and four days of the Omer
Victory/Success in Receiving
A person’s dignity and a leader’s success is tested by his endurance. Will and determination reflect the power and majesty of the human spirit, the strength of one’s sovereignty.
How determined am I about reaching my goals? How strong is my conviction to fight for a dignified cause? How confident am I in myself? Act on something that you believe in but have been tentative about. Take the leap and just do it!
Into this week of Malchut, today we bring Netzach, the sefirah of Physical Vitality.1 The channel of Light is experienced between the base of the spine and the right hip.
Malchut contains a confusing array of energies. Dealing with our world tends to deplete those energies. Netzach is the sefirah that infuses our world with the Endurance we need to continue on the final steps of our journey. Netzach is the corrective to the energy drain we experience both personally and globally. It is like the breath, flowing freely and fully, revitalising the cells of the garments of this Kingdom.
Netzach manifests as well in Physical Vibrations that serve to further confuse us in this realm. We need that which Netzach offers us to appreciate this energy for its own sake behind any forms in which it appears.
Our task on this day is to discover and honour those energies wherever we find them. We are challenged to affirm those forces even when they frighten us with their intensity. Only in this way can we grow to utilise them most effectively, and disperse the clouds of physical depression beneath which we so often live.
I accept the energies that now flow into my world, knowing that they vitalise all that is. This vitality is available to me now through my awakening to these shared aspects of my Being. I will focus on sharing these energies more fully through my actions.
To contrast, Hod, on the other hand, reflects the particular, and unique, experience each living being is having in this existence. (“Living being” might be different depending on your viewpoint. It might range from “everything is alive”, to “only conscious beings are alive.” If only we had a clear idea of what we mean by alive, or by everything, or by conscious… One of the criterion that might be chosen is this very fundamental imperative to reproduce. Though one could argue that the mountain has no desire to produce another mountain, mountain come and mountains go, so something else might have the need to “re”produce mountains.)
Footnotes
Is Vitality really the correct word here? Does vitality connect to endurance? If not, where does the endurance come from? Netzach, which has the idea of eternal in it, refers more to what we might term, “the cycle of life”. Somehow, life continues. There is almost a “biological” imperative to live, and reproduce (which by the way our modern culture and science seems to be intent on squashing), that refers to Netzach. ↩︎