Advanced Kabbalistic Meditations of Sefirat HaOmer (Part One) English
Shalom Aliechem it is Yakov Avraham Shepherd
here from King David's tomb, from KingDavidKabbalah.com
and I want to give you some kabalistic inspiration
with the help of the almighty.
Sefirat HaOmer we have three parts,
the way that i did here in this book is I
split the the meditation.
like the Meditation of Sefirat HaOmer into
three meditations.
there is obviously like the space to bring
in more within the meditation, from the sidur
HaRashash, but for me this is the like the
three main parts. (in the kabbalah book for
the Sefirah) you open in P. 276.
The first one is called 'Havla-at Hadamim'
to to absorb the blood.
I'm going to explain what it means, the second
one is the "Hamshichat Ha Mochin', to bring
down the Abundance into the spherot. and the
third one on page 278 is the 'Hamtakat HaDinnim'
to sweeten the 320 Dinnim, Sweeten the Judgments.
Okay let's do an overview on those three parts;
so the to Havlat Hadamim' to absorb the blood
as we mentioned generally about Pesach we
have the Mochin within the Zer AnPin is Nigh
so, the Ariza"l explains that because of the
blemish of that which was happening because
of the sin of Adam HaRishon, what happened
is that the Nigh of abba disappeared, was
removed from the Nigh of emma.
okay? and that means that the Nigh of Emma
which is "AKA" became to be 'ribu-a'; alef
alef kay alef kay yud alef kay yud kay, which
is the gematria (numerical value) of dam (blood)
okay so the meditation of Havlat Hadamim is
basically to bring back the Nigh of Abba which
is what we're visualizing as yud key vav key
into that Rebu-a of AKA and that will turn
the rebuah of AKA to be straight, to be alef
without ribua and this is basically the ,havlato
damim' we do that every day into the sefira
of the day, of the Zer Anpin, this is basically
the meditation of Havlat Hadamim.
okay? afterwards we're going to see more details
about each one of them.
The second which is Hamshechat HaMochin
basically the the same Mochin that we brought
in 'lel haseder' (Passover Night) we spoke
about the four cups and the Matzot, right
those two parts Mochin of Ema and Mochin of
Abba, All of these Mochin disappear in the
end of the Yom Tov, (1st yom tov of passover)
and then we're starting the Sefirat HaOmer
to bring them back.
so the same idea of the of the Katnut Alef
Gadlut Alef Katnut Bet Gadlut bet, the whole
structure there that we learnt about.
all of that will be applied within Sefirat
Ha Omer, that basically we have seven weeks
that is correspond the structure for the for
the Hamshechat HaMochin is Chabad (Chochma
bina daat) CHagtam of Chabad Chagtam.
Meaning Chabad and then Chagat then No Nahi
(Netzach Hod Yesod) and then Malchut
that is connected with the Tiferet, so in
the Havlaat hadamim we're talking about CHagat
Nayam (Chesed Gevurah Tiferet Yesod Malchut)
so Chagat Nai de Malchot . seven lower sefirot
but in the Hamshechat HaMochin we're talking
about the Chabad Chagad and the Nigh we don't
that we'll do in the in the learning of the
Shavuot night.
it's a different structure okay for the seven
weeks the the Hamtakat Hadinim , there is
a concept that i think that we discussed in
the past , that is the Shach Dinim, 320 judgements
that in Sefirat HaOmer they are like playing
a main role, In Sefirat HaOmer like all of
the days of you'll find many places that it
says that it's days of judgements, and all
of the whole thing that some people they really
like (mistakenly) getting into that mode of
the three weeks of the morning for the Beis
HaMikdash, because of the death of the students
of Rabbi Akiva and all of the all of that
like channel of of viewing the Sefirat HaOmer
as something that is negative or something
so that is because of those judgments.
okay so there is something to it, but it doesn't
make it to be negative.
just it means that we need to work on this,
like we have something that we need to do
it we have the Fevurah of Atick within the
Chochma of Arich.
okay and that that that connection of the
left pillar, Gevurah, within the right pillar,
Chohma, that creates a contrast that is pushing
out the sparks of judgments.
okay this is in a way similar to power station.
that you have like like two powers that are
contradicting each other and that creates
energy, by the the electricity right so those
judgments they are flowing down and that becomes
to be the Shach Dinim, the 32 parts of wisdom
right Lamed Bet Nitivot Chochma, the
right those two concepts are the same abundance
(sheffa) that comes down from the Chochma
of Arich An Pin. to Abba and Emma and then
it comes to Zun.
(Zer Anpin and Nukva) so basically obviously
there is like a lot of positive within that,
but there is also something negative and the
Ariza"l is counting that is part of one of
the reasons for the shattering of the vessels
those those 320 judgments so that that that
means that when we have an opportunity to
sweeten those judgments so we are fulfilling
like a big purpose that is basically the what
is the what is coming from the beginning of
the creation much before the creation of the
of the seven lower sefirot.
We have 320 within every week of the Omer.
okay so if you take 320 and you split the
seven days of the week so basically every
day you have to sweeten 45 parts, of those
three 315.
and in the last day you have to add another
five to complete that account to get to the
so that's another thing and to be honest so
Ariza"l said that we should have done one
meditation for that that is according to the
gate that our Neshama (soul) went through
when it came to this world . okay so we don't
know which gate our Neshama came through,
the Ariza"l was able to see that, then he
was telling his students like you have to
do this meditation you have to do that meditation.
Since we don't have that, so what we have
is whatever is written in the Shaar HaKavanot
(gates of meditations) which is five or six
of the gates, out of the 50 gates total.
and so many years ago when i learned it for
the first time so i asked the Rabbi that i
was learning with Rabbi Deror Gilady, i asked
him so like you know maybe it's useless?
you know like i'm doing like five or six meditations
maybe i'm related with a different gate that
so his explanation on that was whatever Hashem
revealed to us that is what is relevant for
so probably the people that are doing meditations
they came through one of those six gates and
the rest of the people of the Jewish nation
that are not doing meditations they are related
that his explanation, okay fine.
you know that's a positive way to look at
it .so that's what we have and we trust Hashem
that like the reason that He really revealed
those because this is what we need.
so the question is; if it's possible to do
like all of those three?
you know so that will be the best.
if you feel that it's too much to do all of
the three meditations every, every night of
this Sefirat HaOmer, so then it will be it
will be better to take one and to focus on
that instead of of mixing it.
i don't think it's a good idea to to jump
from one to another, within the Sefirat HaOmer,
like sometimes to do this meditation sometimes
to do that one.
Either do everything or to take one or two
and to focus on them and to do that continuously.
what kabbalists want to explain is that you
have the the names of sag that you need to
sweeten through the week and every day you
can sweeten 45 out of them so it's a little
bit similar to the idea of the meditations
that we're doing in the tikunim. and it's
quite similar to tikkunin concept.
so there we were speaking about elevating
the the sparks from the Kelipa, so let's say
that you're you're doing 45 days right you're
elevating 45 parts of the Gematria (numerical
value) of the sag right and then the rest
you have to push the next to the next time
to the next session of the Tikkun.
so here it's basically the same idea but we're
not talking about sparks it went down to the
Klipa, it is judgements that are within zun
and you want to elevate them to ima which
is the the way to Sweeten them basically the
same idea basically is also in the next gates.
it goes like in the same way so the second
gate is a is based on the name of Adni.
right so they're is it's not exactly the same
because you have like Danny (the name of Adny
without the first alef) and daled nun yud
and when you're finishing the Danny then you're
the Danny is an aspect of din and then you're
adding the Alef to sweeten that din.
we have like danny is din numerically, 64.
so every time you're finishing like the the
din so you have like the the in the first
day you have the dalet nun and from the nun
you have 41 parts, and then you have nine
parts of the nun that goes to the next day
and you're doing the yud and then you're starting
yeah so what is that aleph of the Mem?
Here you have the din din din din , and you
want to turn the din into Adni, so what are
you missing is aleph right?
so where these alephs are coming from? from
the Mantzipach (the five judgments the finnel
letters Mem Nun Tzadik Peh and Kaf)
okay so in that second gate, you are elevating
the din.
Which is daled yud nun of the Adni and then
you're adding the alef so the first aleph
is from the mem second aleph is from the nun
third alef is from the tzadik yeah fourth
hour from the pay, fifth alef from the Kaf.
okay so this is those in the brackets (in
the Sefirat HaOmer book from Mikdash) so so
the third Gate is simple just the name of
ma every day!
the the fourth gate is according to shem (name)
Elokim that every one of those letters represnt
Elokim, like, aleph is the first Shem Elokim,
Bet, that is the second Shem Elokim, gimmel
is the third Shem Elokim and so on.
Every day you have four and a half Shem Elokim
(every 5th letter is have the first day and
half the next) and then in the end of the
week you're getting to 32 times 32 names,
of Elokim which is the 32 Shem Elokim that
is found in Maase Bereshit, okay the fifth
gate is according to shem Shakai (Shin Daled
then Yud 314) so basically through the week
it is 45 parts of the shin, until the last
day of the week , you're completing the shakai
on the last day which is 314, the missing 6
we add the combinations of the shakai for
and the fifth gate is like we said is the
name of AKA, Alef then Hay then Alef,
all of the gates are according to the Ariza"l
see let's go to what we have this is the six
Gates that the Ariza"l revealed and obviously
just you can like go deeper and explain it
like each one of them with the help of Hashem
like in a better understanding but for today
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