SHECHINA DWELLS - day 42 MALCHUT sh b'YESOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL
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Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer day 42, Rainbow Day*, 6 full counting weeks
Malchut sh b'Yesod

Co-Creation Emerges

Shechina dwelling 

within my own sacred space
 reveals creation

- Joy Krauthammer

Psalm, drawing and hand-painted paper by Joy Krauthammer

co-partner in creation with the Divine One

© Joy Krauthammer

Do you see the subtle variations of paint color and movement 
that the thick paper absorbed in the dying process?

How do I acclimate to my canvas of life?

*Rainbow Day ~ G*d gave us the Covenant with the keshet/rainbow.

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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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SOUND and FERNS UNFURL - day 42 MALCHUT sh b'YESOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL - - Joy Krauthammer

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Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer - day 42

Malchut sh b'Yesod ~ Sounds and Unfurl

Expressively I share myself as I Serve G*d.

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

© Joy Krauthammer 

Sephirat HaOmer Malchut sh b’Yesod, 42nd day.

In the fullness of Omer’s 6th week, Day 42, as the Sago Palm fronds unfurl following Yesod’s gestation and birth, I can feel the joy of Malchut, Shechina/Feminine Divine Presence resting upon me and on the long green fronds as tight curls begin to open and spread and stretch, their arms bestowing upon us their expressive bounteous beauty, communicating their delight, and I witness this annual stage of life. 

This may be how I stretch my arm and begin playing my percussion cymbal after I have lovingly removed it from silent hibernation’s inactivity. Its roundness resembles the tight roundness of new curls.  Do you know that this is the creation of new fronds?! Don't they look like carved instruments?!  My self-expression with Malchut as garment covering my soul conveys to chevre joyful prayer as it unfurls in rings of reverberating sound, sending out vibes of connecting joy.  Drums have been a creative Yesod, foundation for my life, and I’ve honored the vision I was blessed to receive decades ago for this expression. As Shavuot nears in a week, the sounds (Ex. 20:15) for me could have been sounds of thunderous cymbal.  The cymbal is a bissel louder than what Miriam HaNeviah played earlier at the crossing of the Sea. Hmm, Maybe G*d played cymbals. 

WORD CREATION - day 42 MALCHUT sh b'YESOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL
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Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer day 42, Rainbow Day*

Malchut sh b'Yesod

Passionate joyous word creation play of self

- Joy Krauthammer

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                                                                                                                        by Joy Krauthammer

Counting the Omer brings me joy as does

creating word puzzle art,

another passion I have during Omer season.

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In Yesod I love sharing LIFE with others.

I meet life in Malchut, a vessel holding all the Sephirot, place where Shechinah meets us.

The art words I wrote in my favorite colors represent aspects of life where I am passionate.

You are invited to join me there.

What does Malchut sh b'Yesod mean to you?

Yesod:

foundation, bonding, relationship, creativity, conducting, transmitting, family, lineage, ancestors.

Malchut:

Shechinah, indwelling Feminine Presence, grounding, leadership, sovereignty, Shabbat.

We travel on to examine all the Sephirot within Malchut, our last week of Omer Counting.

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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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LOVINGKINDNESS FLOWS - day 43 CHESED sh b'MALCHUT

LOVINGKINDNESS FLOWS - day 43 CHESED sh b'MALCHUT 

PSALMS OF MY SOUL in words and art  by © Joy Krauthammer 

ספירת העומר

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer day 43, 6 weeks, and 1 day of the Omer ~ Chesed sh b'Malchut
http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2015/02/lovingkindness-flows-day-43-chesed-sh.html

Loving-Kindness Fully Flows

Chesed/Giving and Receiving of self flowing, manifesting into Allness and Aliveness, Presence.

For HaShem ~ being fully engaged in life, in joy, meeting in Malchut, Makom/place of Light.

How this day, my birthday, has been with giving and receiving in Chesed/Lovingkindness.

In joy, I love to manifest and have the sounds, loving & caring, resonate in our worlds where G*d is present and meets us.

G*D is heart. 
The flow begins from Keter through G*d’s wisdom and understanding to us ~ 
created in G*d’s image / b’Tzelem Elokim. 

The beginning of the last Counting of the Omer week, week 7.
And then we reach Shavuot on the 50th day!

Lovingkindness Flows Fully Through Tree of Life

digital over photo by © Joy Krauthammer 2016

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.  

Because we are created in the Image of G*d / B'Tzelem Elokin, we flow with Tree of Life lower 7 Sephirotic human behavior characteristics that include: Chesed/loving-kindness, love, abunDance. Gevurah/strength, restraint, boundaries, limits, awe, judgment, severity, discipline. Tiferet/beauty, compassion, harmony, balance, heart, love.  Netzach/endurance, perseverance, ambition, drive, victory. Hod/humility, splendor, gratitude. Yesod/foundation, bonding, relationship, creativity, fertility, lineage, ancestors, descendents, and Malchut/sovereignty, leadership and Shechinah/Indwelling Feminine Presence.

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