PAULA - day 36 CHESED sh b'YESOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL 
ספירת העומר

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer week 6 day 1

CHESED sh b'YESOD

Loving-Kindness of Bonding

Day 36, double chai, of the Omer

PAULA

Thinking about the importance of today's energy combination pair Chesed sh b'Yesod, I recognize something bitter sweet and meaningful that I did in terms of Lovingkindness in Bonding Connection. These are actions that unite us in interactions with another, and G*d in Yesod.

This week an elderly, awesome, violinist friend of mine, Paula, is in an ICU. May the Compassionate One heal Paula.

Today I went into my photo files because I now have Paula's son's contact info for first time, and I sent a photo to the son, of Paula performing at the Jewish Home for the Aged when we did one of our annual holiday concerts, "From OY's to JOY's". Leaving my drum by the stage, I raced into the audience, so I could quickly photograph dear Paula. 

Today, when the son received the photo of his mother, he sent the following to me, which gave me tears of connection: 

"This photo was the desktop page for my mother’s computer for years before she stopped using a computer last September.  I never knew who the photographer was.  Thank you so much.  It is one of my most cherished photos of her."

The son is using my photos in a slide show he is preparing.
I have sent the photo and others out to the musicians to let them know about Paula's critical condition.

El Na ReFa NaLa   Please G*d, please heal her.  Let Paula hear the angelic Klezmer sounds of her strings.

Paula Robinson

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17 days later

Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Paula, z"l, was filled with vitality for life, and especially loved sharing her music.
Paula loved going to Klez Kamp for music.
Paula loved playing with clarinetist, David.
We shared Renewal congregations and friends.
Paula shared her courageous travel stories with me.
Knowing I didn't live in the city, Paula offered that I could stay at her LA home if visiting LA.
Although I didn't take her up on the offer, I treasure Paula's gift offer.
I was blessed to know Paula and have a special bond with her.
May 18, 2013,  9 Sivan 5773
Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA

PAULA - day 36 CHESED sh b’YESOD Omer’s double chai

Counting Omer 5 full weeks and 1 day of 7 Sephirot weeks

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SERVE G*D IN JOY - day 42 MALCHUT sh b'YESOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL
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Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer - day 42

Malchut sh b'Yesod ~ SERVE G*D WITH JOY

Omer Counter Timbrel Clock

Expressively and joyously I give of myself as I serve G*d.

"Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" - Psalm 100:2

- Joy Krauthammer

  Gila Rena Tzohara*

Every Omer Counting day I especially think about my attributes in 'Serving G*d' and spontaneously do divine Avodah with Kavanah in Asiyah / World of physical body and doing.

For my Serve G*d With Joy clock and Omer calendar, I think about Omer day 42, Malchut sh b'Yesod. 

All Tree of Life Sephirotic energies flow through me into deepest Sephirah Malchut, and the radiance of Shechinah inspires and allows me with my deeply rooted, personal and unique creative contributions to mamash reveal inner JOY, as I connect and bond in Sephirah Yesod with those whom I share myself, while serving the Holy One. "Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" - Psalm 100:2.

Doing Bikkur Cholim, and mitzvot each day in Chesed, Tiferet and Netzach, are ways I serve the Holy One with Joy.

In Hod, I serve "G*d With Joy" as temple musician with timbrel in hand.

Joyously teaching chevre about Sephirat HaOmer is another way I love to serve G*d. 
I must use Gevurah in all I want to share.

Serve G*d With Joy Clock and Omer Calendar

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Many years ago in Pico-Robertson, the Roth's Bookstore owner gave to me the non-working old worn wood clock, and seeing potential and in Hiddur Mitzvah, I renewed and transformed the clock that I'd rescued from the trash.

To my shined-up wood clock filled with my soul's goal, "Serve G*d With Joy", I added Miriam HaNeviah's timbrel (as I am a ritual percussionist), and the wood Omer Counter with the inner paper scroll, that I purchased in Mea She'arim, Jerusalem

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Each week I would drive to Roth's bookstore in Los Angeles, for classes with wonderful rabbis. This reformed clock reminds me to "Serve G*d With Joy".

Each night for a couple decades (until I was a full-time Caregiver Angel Warrior), I was driving to LA an hour or more each way for spiritual classes all over town. Now I'm older, traffic creeps too slowly on the "worst" freeway in America--2 to 0 mph at times, and gas prices are very high for my purple truck; $20 for gas and 2 1/2 - 3 hours is a lot of spent resources for a one hour class. Couple years ago I took a semester's Talmud class at AJR and it was two hours every single Monday morning to reach LA, driving from 7-9 AM. Before class I was always on time for the blesSing to davven with the rabbinic students!  Now I am grateful for all the mamash great Jewish teachings 24/7 on the web.

Count each day, make each day count, and  "Teach us to treasure each day."  - Psalm 90.  

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* With the future Happy Minyan in Pico-Robertson, at Torah when Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z"l, added "Tzohara" to my name (thus Gila Rena Tzohara / double Joy and Light), Reb Shlomo said I have a million reasons to cry, and all I show is my joy.

In addition to buying books at Roth's, since at least 1980, I was filling my immense Judaic library from House of David in North Hollywood, where mamash, I received personal attention. David's son Philip knew before I knew, what treasure I would still cherish today.

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