FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION - day 36 CHESED sh b'YESOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL  ~  Joy Krauthammer

CHESED sh b’YESOD ~ Caring in Friendship Foundation

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer  ספירת העומר

Counting Omer day 36,  that is 5 full weeks and 1 day of the Omer

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FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION - day 36 CHESED sh b'YESOD

After some time, a friend withinYESOD, an everlasting foundation bond of friendship, is again in contact with me.

In CHESED / kindness I try to lighten her soul with my joy, embracing her.

My friend is blind and mostly deaf, but now with a cochlear implant, hearing is a little bit restored. It’s not easy to speak or yell loudly into the phone for a conversation, but bonded, I can be a friend in this way. We have a good foundation / YESOD to build upon from when we were both members of a caring, creative spiritual group, and had shared interests in joys of life and Kabbalistic learning. Both of us, purple people. I imagine most of her treasured purple belongings have disappeared in each difficult move, so I don’t ask about things. I know her beloved dog has died. I know there are loyal friends and I am grateful.

Today I tried to redirect my friend away from all her current complaints and asked about what was good in her life, now or then. I heard blesSings about song, prayer, and sister and lake and dog and friends. Baruch Hashem. These have been foundations of her life. My friend supported me when I was a caregiver, and I’ve been present in Chesed for her challenges during the overlapping 20 years. Ending each conversation with my friend we say, I LOVE YOU. What else is there?

How to sustain in compassion and vitality, a challenging connection, yet filled with Chesed sh b'Yesod? 

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Chesed sh b'Yosod falls at times on Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day blesSings
to all those mothering young, old, large, small, well, ill, crying, joyous, creatures furry, feathered, or greens growing in pots, or grounded in earth, and birthed beauty, creative projects, healing, and sacred purpose.
Love, Joy

It's DOUBLE CHAI DAY!   YAY!!
on the TREE OF LIFE

Friendship Sunflower

© Joy Krauthammer  4.16.2015

Dear Rena was bonded to Hashem.

A favorite book I would daily read to Rena and we (Rena especially) would discuss was

Breslov's "Healing Leaves". Prescriptions for Inner Strength, Meaning and Hope, selections from Reb Noson's letters.

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