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

montage by Joy Krauthammer ©

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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FIGS GROW - day 46 NETZACH sh b'MALCHUT

Psalms of My Soul
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Netzach sh b'Malchut
Endurance Within Shechina

Sephirat HaOmer day 46

6 weeks and 4 days of the Omer 

Figs Are As Torah.  Am I?

- Joy Krauthammer

Fig trees in all their ripe beautiful fullness, uniqueness, and purple royalty, are grown from foot-long barren branches filled with potential. In dormancy, fig trees have been pruned, cut back and endure the amputations, and mourning over limb loss. Roots, new branches, leaves and produce are determined to sprout, grow and fill out in glory.  Fig tree has endured the dormant winter season until Tu B'Shvat when again the sap flows. In victory over obstacles, new growth successfully starts to push out through the undressed branches, some lathered in tar from prior amputations. Determination is immediate as even the tiniest of green baby figs show their perseverence and appear to begin a new season, while other creatures scamper all over the figs, devouring them, as they mature. 

Figs are as Sephirot as is Torah

How can I be like a FIG?  How can my spirit and physical being endure trials, challenges and seasons, and successfully reach my goals?  What kind of warrier am I?  Do I fight for what I believe in for myself and for others and ideals?  Do I go forward in joy?
What is my intention from the time of Tu B'Shvat, and when my limbs are pruned to serve a purpose, to achieve goals, to produce lush beautiful sweet, purple bounty?

How are my roots when they had been vulnerable and fragile, and my trunk, branches, leaves, and nourishment– so that I can go forward with my fruits, my gifts, toward my receivers of fruits?  Is my fruit like the fig and Torah, that it is edible through and through, and ripens a little at a time?

Sephirot HaOmer are like Torah and figs: Additional Sephirah energies are visible each day, as are figs, and contemplated, and grasped, digested, and more wisdom and transformation is available for goodness, growth and sharing in the land of Holiness.

"They will sit, each person under his vine and under his fig tree, and none will make them afraid, for the mouth of the Compassionate One, G*d of the hosts of Creation, has spoken." (Micah 4:4)

"Torah compares to a fig tree; Figs on a tree do not ripen all at once, but a little each day. Therefore, one keeps finding new figs in the tree each day. So too with Torah: The more one studies each day, the more knowledge and wisdom one finds." (Eruvin 54a)

"In that day (of Torah and peace)... everyone will invite his friend in fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree." (Zechariah 3:10)

Figs Grow in G*d's Garden Tended by Joy

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Joy tends baby fig trees

and gives away hundreds each year for Tu B'Shvat

Garden of Joy

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Figs 

Garden of Joy

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MORE PHOTOS

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"Manna From Heaven" poem:  

http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2010/03/manna-from-heaven-hod-sh-byesod.html

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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 desire 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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