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    3rd of the 72 Divine Names

    Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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    Samech - Yod - Tet

    Samek is the “tent peg,” “prop” or “pole,” implying support, and 'Yod' is the “hand of God,” the first Holy Letter of the Great Name of YHVH, implying the power of the ten Holy Sefirot, and specifically, the power of the Supernal Sefirot, Supernal Light; and 'Tet' is the “serpent,” which alludes to the presence and power of God in us, a power that can be used to heal or to harm, for good or for evil.

    There are two stories of Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our Teacher) that reflect this Holy Name of God. One is in chapter seventeen of Exodus when Amalek and his armies attack the children of Israel – Moses goes up on a hill and cleaving the name YHVH and the Holy Shekinah, he uplifts his staff, and as long as his staff remains uplifted, the men of Israel are victorious in battle. As the battle wages on, Moses grows weary, so a stone is placed beneath him so that he can sit and Aaron and Hur help him hold his arm up, and with this support the Israelite army is victorious over the army of Amalek.
    This incident, of course, transpires right after the liberation of the children of Israel from their bondage in Egypt and represents the influx of klippotic forces that rush to assault the sojourner in the mystical journey after any breakthrough to higher or expanded states of consciousness – quite naturally, in this world of darkness as we increase in light and life-power, like a light turned on during a summer’s night all manner of creatures are attracted, the influences of shedim the klippot. This Holy Name, however, holds the power to bind and banish them.

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    2 of 72 Divine Names

    Thursday, October 15, 2015

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     The Kabbalah says that in the process of creation countless universes were created and shattered before the universe in which we exist came into being; essentially, lights and vessels were formed, but the influxes of Or Ain Sof, the Light of the Infinite, was too intense and overwhelmed the vessels, and consequently they fractured and shattered – this happened over and over again. Indeed, even the holy vessels that form the metaphysical structure within and behind our universe were overwhelmed by the influxes of the Supernal Light, and some fractured and others shattered – thus, creative evolution becomes a process of tikkun- the healing, mending, correction or rectification of fractured and shattered vessels, the development and evolution of holy vessels that can receive the full influx of the Supernal Light and Shekinah.

    The shards of the shattered vessels, of course, is the generation of the klippot, sparks of the Holy Light of God becoming bound up in husks of darkness or impure emanations; thus, from the fracturing and shattering of vessels admixed and dark spiritual forces come into being, shedim (demons), and so the play of negative forces and evil enters into creation. In the process of tikkun the klippot or husks of darkness must be shattered and dispelled and the holy sparks bound up in them must be released, uplifted and reintegrated with the Light Continuum (Y-H-V-H) – in a word, the sparks of holiness must be redeemed. This Holy Name has the Divine Power to shatter klippot and to release holy sparks, and releasing them it has the Divine Power to uplift and reintegrate them – the Power to Redeem.

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    Prayer & the Divine Names

    Monday, March 3, 2014

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    QUESTION: I responded to a question pertaining to prayer and the emanations of God. The question was basically if the Divine names throughout the Bible are not God itself but are rather emanations of God then are we not actually praying to God when we employ these names...

    MY ANSWER: First, it is necessary to determine what is this "god" we are talking about. God is not a Hebrew term and there are no Hebrew equivalents to this term. The biggest problem with the term God is that it is highly subjective as each individual psyche frames the context of the definition of God within their own pre-conceived imaginations. Each psyche is different and thus defines this idea in its own unique distinction ascribing God characteristics which belong to the realm of human personality rather than Infinite quality.

    The Hebrew Bible does not qualify the Divine as even the first appearance of a "name" of God is 'Elohim' which is not a term to ascribe an eternal and infinite state of being rather the grammatical structure of Gen. 1:1 where it first appears indicates that Elohim is a product of creation not the progenitor of it. This concept is subsequently reinforced by the Zohar. Every appearance of a Divine name is not anything seperate from the Source of these names. ALL things originate from Singularity. As the original poster had stated in his question: these are "emanations" and an emanation is not something different nor distinct from its Source. The only distinction is in the mind of the created as we perceive reality within an artificial construct of duality (indicated by the beit of b'reishit). Thus every Divine name is merely an ascribed identification and explanation of a particular emanated quality that appears within the context of our own human experience.

    The other issue here is with prayer. Prayer is not an act of petition or supplication to a Divine entity as there isn't such an entity who endures nor produces such narcissism. We are each an individuated ego that devolves from the essence of Divinity. Each of us is singularly apart of a greater collective and ultimately the expression of the Divine Itself. Prayer done properly is an act of kavanah which raises our consciousness from the mundane to an enlightened consciousness. This is a process of tikkun hanefesh that is referred to as being raised from the state of mochin d'katnut to the expanded state of mochin d'gadlut. Prayer is not looking outside of ourselves to twist the arm of a Cosmic Being rather it is a tool to look within and to conform ourselves to the image contained within a higher perception.