SEPHIRAT HA OMER

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer PSALMS of my Soul by JOY KRAUTHAMMER. --- MORE: CLICK "Older Posts". --- "Each day of the Omer period is associated with a different aspect of the Sephirot. On that day, everything which every-one in the whole world is talking about is purely an expression of that special aspect with which that day is associated. A person with understanding can hear and recognize this if s/he pays attention to what people are saying." - Reb Nachman...Art and Photos © Joy Krauthammer

SEPHIROT ChART TREE OF LIFE

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TREE OF LIFE

SEPHIROT ChART

Sephirot ChArt by Joy Krauthammer ©

Eitz Chayim from the Kabbalists: (Arizal's order of males on ChArt)

Ancestors matched with Sephirot's 7 Lower Qualities of Tree of Life

Avraham (Abraham) - Chesed - Sarah
Yitzchak (Isaac) - Gevurah - Miriam
Yaakov (Jacob) - Tiferet - Devorah
Moshe (Moses) - Netzach - Hannah
Aharon (Aaron) - Hod - Avigail
Yosef (Joseph) - Yesod - Hulda
David (King David) - Malchut - Esther

Human Body Parts matched with Sephirot's 7 Lower Qualities of Tree of Life

Chesed - Upper Right Side
Gevurah - Upper Left Side
Tiferet - Center Heart
Netzach - Lower Right side
Hod - Lower Left Side
Yesod - Genital Area
Malchut - Feet

B'Tzelem Elokim, Created in the Image of G*d

In Omer practive, we use the daily pairs of Sephirot for 49 days to examine and refine our Midot, our character traits.

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COUNT THE SEPHIRAT HA OMER Workshop

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COUNT THE SEPHIRAT HA OMER

ספירת העומר

Joyously Prepare for 49 Days

from Passover & liberation to Shavuot & revelation

Sephirat HaOmer display

Joy's Sephirot talleisim, Omer Calendars, Counting Omer guide books, Omer art, Omer pendants,

collected teachings since 1990.

Silver plate holds symbolic healing objects from Torah's Parshat Metsorah:

Birds, Cedar wood, Scarlet thread, Hyssop, Spring Water in Earthen vessel.

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CALENDARS

COUNT THE SEPHIRAT HA OMER

ספירת העומר

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You shall count for yourselves -- from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the omer of the waving -- seven weeks, they shall be complete. Until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering to God. (Leviticus 23:15-16)

Below is one of the styles of Omer Calendars (2019/ 5779).
Displays Omer count on each day for SAME evening. We do the Count at night.

Below is one of the styles of Omer Calendars (2019/ 5779).
Displays Omer count on each day for prior evening count. We Count at night.

Lag B'Omer Day 33

Rainbow Day 42

Calendar and Bracha pages courtesy of Rabbi Mordecai Finley and Ohr HaTorah.

Counting Bracha and dates in Hebrew are on separate sheet below.

Love the colored Omer Calendar Contemplation Walk from Reb Goldie Milgram.

Another style to Count Omer by Lauren Deutsch

Shmura Matzoh ~ Liberation ~ Revelation
Matzoh gift from my Chabad rabbi.

BlesSings on your journey to 'pass over’

and Transcend your personal Mitzrayims,

and to reach Freedom

with healing of body, mind, heart, and soul,

and to celebrate

all that you are and can be in the Tree of Life,

created B'Tzelem Elokeem, in the image of The Holy One.

Chag Sameach, Joy

Pesach art, photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer

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Sephirat HaOmer teachings on the day's energies:

Healing Remedies and Singing Bowls Meditation

Spiritual workshop
with
Rabbi Miriam Hamrell & Joy Krauthammer, spiritual percussionist
Omer Day 22, Chesed sh B'Netzach

Jewish Wisdom & Wellness ~ Week of Learning

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Praying for HEALING, Praying for Mercy and Singing Bowls

join Rabbi Ahud Sela and Joy Krauthammer

Omer Day 26 Netzach sh B'Netzach

Jewish Wisdom & Wellness ~ Week of Learning

Workshop Archives.

https://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2011/06/workshop-history-archives.html

SEPHIROT CH/ART, River of Light, Path

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TREE OF LIFE
SEPHIROT ChART

Sephirot ChArt by Joy Krauthammer ©

Eitz Chayim from the Kabbalists: (Arizal's order of males on ChArt)

Avraham (Abraham) - Chesed - Sarah
Yitzchak (Isaac) - Gevurah - Miriam
Yaakov (Jacob) - Tiferet - Devorah
Moshe (Moses) - Netzach - Hannah
Aharon (Aaron) - Hod - Avigail
Yosef (Joseph) - Yesod - Hulda
David (King David) - Malchut - Esther

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River of Light

Painted Path

by Joy Krauthammer ©

Torah, a path to follow,

sometimes through a dense forest,

with Light guiding the way,

and painted with colors of the rainbow.

Path may be curvy or straight,

short or long,

narrow or wide,

deep or shallow.

Is the path rapid or slow,

high or level?

Familiar or new?

Easy to follow or not?

Filled with delights or difficulties?

 Torah gives place to pause.

(as do stones in a stream)

Breathe in deeply, reflect, and listen.

From flowing waters,

varied sounds are heard

as many voices are heard in Torah.

The ear of the heart

can flow to the heart of G*d

in silence or sound.

Quiet the mind.

Shema / listen

What do you hear?

What is my path,
my purpose toward the Divine One?

Do rocks, challenges, become obstacles (to a well),

or provide places to step higher on the path?

Shema.

Can you hear the sounds of water

tinkle, splash, rush

falling, passing over the stones?

Is the heart awakened?

 In the quiet shade of trees,

high, by a cliff,
Big Sur

overlooking the ocean,

I have sat

on raised stones

in a gentle mountain spring,

and played my Tibetan singing bowl.

I sing Shalom / peace. I am grateful. I am at Onement.

- Joy Krauthammer

G*d is Love

We are created B'Tzelem Elokim / in the image of G*d.

River of Light
of our illuminated heart
lives in the path of the Tree of Life.

Beginning with Chesed / Loving-Kindness
to Malchut / Shekhina's Presence of full Light,

49 Gates of our emotions and actions

flow through the heart

from the Source.

- Joy

Perek Shira: The Rivers are saying:
“Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing for joy together!” (Psalms 98:8)

Genesis 2:10 "A river watering the garden flowed from Eden;"
Genesis 2:10-14 lists four rivers in association with the Garden of Eden.

Psalm 46:4 "There is a River whose streams make glad the City of G*d."

Psalm 23:2 "He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters."
Ecclesiastes 1:7 "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again."

 Water as a metaphor for Torah:

Bava Kama 17A "There is no water except Torah."

Isaiah 55:1 "O, all who are thirsty, come for water."

"The beginning of all paths and the starting point of every climb is to open yourself to receive from Above." - The Rebbe's words condensed by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, Chabad.org

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/06/river-of-light.html

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Haftarat Yom Kippur

Isaiah 57:14 "G*d says, 'Pave a road, pave a road. Lift up the obstacle from my people's path."

The prophet exhorts us in G*d's name to pave a road of goodness and proper behavior,
and to lift up the obstacle placed in our path by the Evil Inclination. - Stone Chumash

Teach Us To Count Our Days

- Psalm 90:12

Tree of Life

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TREE OF LIFE

Kabbalistic Sephirot

template analogy
(viewed from behind)

to connect G*D's infinite world to woman and man's finite world.
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by Joy Krauthammer ©

Pomegranate Magen Dovid and Tree of Life

Sephirat HaOmer

TREE OF LIFE
Sephirat HaOmer
The idea of a beautiful full rose as base of Tree of Life pleases me.
I enjoy counting lower 7 Sephirot on the petals.
(My first experience at free-hand writing with Mac.)
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FOUR WORLDS

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COUNT THE Sephirat HaOmer IN FOUR WORLDS

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Words of Sephirat HaOmer

by Joy Krauthammer

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Sephirot Flow

"You G*d are the Compassion, the Strength, the Beauty, the Victory, the Splendor,
and the Foundation of everything in Heaven and on Earth." (1 Chronicles 1:29)

I See Your Face in All Nature that I photograph. - Joy

Shiviti HaShem L'Negdi Tamid
I place G*d before me Always.

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Tallit Radiates Sephirot

My Tallit Radiates With Sephirot

I loved creating my Tallit radiating with Sephirot,

from a sarong I bought in Bali.

The story of my Sephirat golden radiance emblazoned Bali Tallit is that I wanted to be embraced by, surrounded by, covered by, wrapped in, especially during davvenen, from the top of my head and down-- symbols of Sephirot representing the Ohr / Light filled G*dly mystical energies that I can feel infused with inside to the outside; emotions and actions, to connect more closely with the Divine One. And maybe in more transparency I can transcend myself, be further transformed, and awakened in my consciousness in "Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha", Serving G*d with Joy in Four Worlds of Spirit, Mind, Heart and Body.

Painting my Tallit was fun and joy-filled for me. My Tallit creates for me a Rechem Ohel / womb tent for my Neshamah / my soul, and I can emerge from prayer more emblazoned in peaceful illumination, inspired and determined to do my Avodah in Chesed / lovingkindness, Tiferet / compassion and joy.

Tzitzit on my Sephirot Tallit.

I knew to use one Tekhelet * colored thread in each corner of my tzitzit, so I decided that using all tekhelet blue would be joyous on the sarong that I bought in Bali in 1991 during my transformative spiritual journey.

Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z"l, during Shabbat Pekudei 1994, said to me at Torah when he named me "Tzoharah" (Gila Rena Tzoharah)-- that I need to have a blue thread in my tzitzit. (I was wearing my Sephirot ribbon tallit at the time.) That Shlomo Shabbaton was with Pico-Robertson chevre who were to become the Happy Minyan when Shlomo died 7 months later. (I was blessed to be Shlomo's drummer.)

This photo shares the process of painting Tzohar, illumination, radiance… ( I used a paper template that artist Sally Pond loaned to me.)
Decorating the tallit is for Hiddur Mitzvah / beautification enhancement of ritual, ceremonial objects.

Sefirah = Mispar/ number; Sipur/ tell story; Sapir/sapphire; Tzohar/ illuminate

(Tzohar/window at top of Noah's Ark was to illuminate.)

Sefirah Shoresh/root = Sapir and Tzohar to illuminate our lives.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch discusses the deeper meaning of Tohar:
Tohar is related to tsohar, which means: transparent; something whose particles are homogeneous and allow rays of light to pass through them. A pure object – the tahor – is receptive, and the Divine light penetrates it. A pure person is one who is receptive to the spiritual, to the Divine; one whose mind, heart, and body are suffused with the Divine light. (Commentary to Genesis 7:2)

BlesSings for compassion, strength, health, wholeness, peace, truth, beauty, endurance, revealed miracles, creativity, discovery, wonder, blooming gardens, sighting birds, majestic sunrises, connection, rootedness and revealed self-expression, love and joy,

- Joy Krauthammer

* Blue snail ink from the Murex Trunculus 'Hilazon'.

(Copy of letter accompanying submission to Josh Fleet, Huff Post Religion Editor for Omer Blog)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/counting-the-omer-49-days-liveblog_n_2974623.html
http://huff.to/171uS5D

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Woven Ribbon Tallit

Woven Ribbon Tallit

follows the colors of the Sephirot
and Torah's days of the week
as designed by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
for his Rainbow Tallit
with a bissel poetic license by Joy Krauthammer.

Joy painted the Tallit corners, and Ruth Zitch sewed them onto Tallit.
Ruth Zitch embroidered, and patiently with Tiferet / love and harmony pulled out thin woven weft threads in order to add ribbons, as designed by Joy K.
Each knotted fringe tassel of warp consciously holds 26 counted very thin wool threads. Each warp thread was carefully separated and counted with a needle to make a meaningful gematria.
Decorating the tallit is for Hiddur Mitzvah / beautification enhancement of ritual, ceremonial objects.

Members of B'nai Horin, LA, helped tie Tzitzit for Joy's Tallit in ceremonial ritual, 1993
during High Holidays.
Joy and Ruth made another similar Tallit for Joy's daughter Aviva.

Woven Ribbon Tallit by Joy Krauthammer & Ruth Zitch

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Seven Gates

SEVEN GATES

7 Gates: Eyes, Ears, Nostrils, Mouth

Cleansing, repairing our Midot for Sephirat HaOmer is less intense if we control our 7 Gates and what we allow to enter from the outside and what we allow to exit to the outside.

Create 'garments' as Gates and fences for our openings. Make 'judges and officers' to ensure that what comes in through our Gates is not the bad which contaminates, but the good.
Bring into our hearts, words of Torah.

"Judges and officers shall you appoint for your gates." - Devarim, 16:18

Parsha read at new month of Elul.

In addition to every day, this teaching if for me especially prominent at the High Holidays. In Elul we do Cheshbon HaNefesh / accounting of the soul and deeply examine what goes in and what goes out from our body and soul. - Joy Krauthammer

"Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and give me life in your way" - King David 119:37

Reb Nachman teaches that there are 7 passageways to the soul.

From my teacher, Rav Rahmiel Drizen:

Kuntres Ha'Avoda, R' Shalom Dov Ber Mi'Lubavitch:

He who worries about his soul, not to bring it to impurity, will fence himself in what respects to the eyes and if this is difficult for him, he should strengthen himself with all his power and might. And he should know that his soul depends on this. And if we will not be careful about this, all his service is as nothing, and nothing will he get out of all his service, and on the contrary, G-d forbid he will descend low, very low...

And he should not worry about what others say...

And this is very hard in the beginning... but with time he will get used to guarding his eyes. And through this, he will find rest for his soul from many evils and confusion and then he will be able to serve Hashem and he will accomplish salvation for his soul with the Help of the Blessed One.

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May the refinement work of cosmic cleansing that I do on myself during the 49 days of Kabbalistically Counting the Sephirat HaOmer help me to mamash/truly be who I am, and need to become. I need to delete klipot/husks (negative influences) and again ready myself for Shavuot by strengthening, elevating and perfecting my midot/character traits.

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