May you be answered in your time of distress,
May the Name of Yakov’s God Fortify you,
ישׁלח עזרך מקודשׁ
May He Dispatch your help from the sanctuary,
The Holy of Holies,
Inside the Temple,
Where the Holy Ark rests
and God’s Spirit Dwells.
May He Remember all your devotions,
and Consider your your sacrifices generous,
Selah.
May He Grant your heart’s desire
and Fulfil your every plan.
May we sing for joy at your salvation
and raise your banner in service to our God,
and may Yah Fulfil all your requests.
Yah save us!
May the King Answer us on the day we call.
It is about space — always space — about the giving of space. We, as women, need to fill the space. We, as men, need to hold the space, of not being afraid of the space, empty and quiet.
When all the space of our world are filled with the noise and the bustle of humankind, perhaps then, and only then, will the remaining spaces become so precious that we will finally truly value them and treat them with honour and respect they so deserve — for only in that space will G-d, the Shechinah, enter.
There are different manifestation of the Eternal Being that we experience. The basic one is as the underlying Force driving (or Perceiving) all of Creation. While the other, the One that enters my space, is a more personal one. One could thus make a distinction between a Universal God, external, omnipotent and omniscient, and a personal God, the one that I am. This, however, does not affect or change in the slightest, the essential Nature, Is-ness, of the Divine Creator.
My experience(s) of this Being are somehow distinct from the Being itself — or have an element of separation. Thus arises the question of my relationship with this It-ness. This is named the “sacred space of spirit, “רוח הקודשׁ”, the place mystics aspire to. Thus we have the two aspects of the mystical journey. The first is know as מאשׂה בראשׁית, the Work of Creation, and the other as מאשׂה מרכבה, the Work of the Chariot. The first is around the nature of creation and the creator. It becomes the arena of theology and theosophy. The latter is that of the “Revelatory nature of the Creator”, and explores the possibility of achieving some sort of union, דבקות, a “meeting” of sorts with Consciousness. It is essentially a non-rational concept. How can the finite encounter the Infinite?!!![[Temple-body.png]]