Friday, April 28, 2006
Week three - Tiferet
A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer
Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement
Courtesy of www.MeaningfulLife.com
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Week three - Tiferet
Tiferet - compassion - blends and harmonizes the free outpouring love of chesed with the discipline of gevurah. Tiferet possesses this power by introducing a third dimension - the dimension of truth, which is neither love or discipline and therefore can integrate the two.
Truth is accessed through selflessness: rising above your ego and your predispositions, enables you to realize truth. A clear and objective picture of yours and others needs. The imbalance of love and discipline (and for that matter, any distortion) is a result of a subjective, hence limited perspective; introducing truth, by suspending personal prejudices, allows you to express your feelings (including the synthesis of chesed and gevurah) in the healthiest manner.
This quality gives tiferet its name, which means beauty: it blends the differing colors of love and discipline, and this harmony makes it beautiful. For tiferet to be complete it needs the inclusion of the following seven facets: love of compassion, discipline of compassion, compassion of compassion, endurance of compassion, humility of compassion, bonding of compassion and sovereignty of compassion.
Day One of Week 3 (15th day of omer):
Chesed of Tiferet
Examine the love aspect of compassion.
Ask yourself: Is my compassion tender and loving or does it come across as pity? Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing? Even if my intention is otherwise, do others perceive it as such? Does my compassion overflow with love and warmth; is it expressed with enthusiasm, or is it static and lifeless?
Exercise for the day: When helping someone extend yourself in the fullest way; offer a smile or a loving gesture.
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You can count on us!
Between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, count the Omer the high-tech way! Subscribe to our Omer Reminder email list and we will send you an email every evening reminding you to fulfill this special Mitzvah!
Just click here:
http://www.chabad.org/autosub.asp?UserID=103824,98563,16
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Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer is brought to you by:
A Spiritual Guide to Counting the Omer
Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement
The Forty-Nine Days of Sefirah
By Simon Jacobson
Copyright (c) 1996-2005 The Meaningful Life Center
788 Eastern Parkway - Brooklyn NY 11213
Phone: 718-774-6448
Email: mailto:wisdomreb@meaningfullife.com
Reprinted with permission from: http://www.meaningfullife.com
Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement
Courtesy of www.MeaningfulLife.com
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Week three - Tiferet
Tiferet - compassion - blends and harmonizes the free outpouring love of chesed with the discipline of gevurah. Tiferet possesses this power by introducing a third dimension - the dimension of truth, which is neither love or discipline and therefore can integrate the two.
Truth is accessed through selflessness: rising above your ego and your predispositions, enables you to realize truth. A clear and objective picture of yours and others needs. The imbalance of love and discipline (and for that matter, any distortion) is a result of a subjective, hence limited perspective; introducing truth, by suspending personal prejudices, allows you to express your feelings (including the synthesis of chesed and gevurah) in the healthiest manner.
This quality gives tiferet its name, which means beauty: it blends the differing colors of love and discipline, and this harmony makes it beautiful. For tiferet to be complete it needs the inclusion of the following seven facets: love of compassion, discipline of compassion, compassion of compassion, endurance of compassion, humility of compassion, bonding of compassion and sovereignty of compassion.
Day One of Week 3 (15th day of omer):
Chesed of Tiferet
Examine the love aspect of compassion.
Ask yourself: Is my compassion tender and loving or does it come across as pity? Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing? Even if my intention is otherwise, do others perceive it as such? Does my compassion overflow with love and warmth; is it expressed with enthusiasm, or is it static and lifeless?
Exercise for the day: When helping someone extend yourself in the fullest way; offer a smile or a loving gesture.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You can count on us!
Between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, count the Omer the high-tech way! Subscribe to our Omer Reminder email list and we will send you an email every evening reminding you to fulfill this special Mitzvah!
Just click here:
http://www.chabad.org/autosub.asp?UserID=103824,98563,16
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Brought to you by Chabad.org
For our network of Jewish Holiday websites, please visit: http://www.chabad.org/holidays/
Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer is brought to you by:
A Spiritual Guide to Counting the Omer
Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement
The Forty-Nine Days of Sefirah
By Simon Jacobson
Copyright (c) 1996-2005 The Meaningful Life Center
788 Eastern Parkway - Brooklyn NY 11213
Phone: 718-774-6448
Email: mailto:wisdomreb@meaningfullife.com
Reprinted with permission from: http://www.meaningfullife.com
