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

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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.

http://count-the-omer.blogspot.com/ 

COUNT THE SEPHIRAT HA OMER Workshop

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COUNT THE SEPHIRAT HA OMER 

ספירת העומר

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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.

  © Joy Krauthammer  

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CALENDARS

COUNT THE SEPHIRAT HA OMER 

ספירת העומר

http://count-the-omer.blogspot.com/

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.

© Joy Krauthammer

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

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.
http://count-the-omer.blogspot.com/ 

 by Joy Krauthammer ©

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Pomegranate Magen Dovid and Tree of Life

Sephirat HaOmer

© Joy Krauthammer 

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

-  Joy Krauthammer

Four Worlds ChArt by © Joy Krauthammer

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Words of Sephirat HaOmer

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.

silk painting by Joy Krauthammer © 

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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.

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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

photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer

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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

7 Gates ChArt © 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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