Cause
Elul Meditation
The Cause of All
Causes (eila) & Effects (eilul)
The true nature of His Oneness.
Chovos Halavavos
He is the beginning of all beginnings
The exalted above all who are exalted
Highest of the high
The first of them all
The cause of all Causes (eila) and effects (eilul)
I contemplate Elul
And the cause of all cause
And the virus.
Those experiencing
Or not experiencing
He is the highest of the high
Beginning of all beginnings
May we be zoche to trust hashem
Ratzo vshav
Release the ego
With my dibor/ speech
Kingship is yours
I proclaim
You are the exalted of all the exalted
I choose to claim this
You have given me the gift of choice
May it enter my heart
That this will bring
Strength and light and healing
From connecting to the truth
That you are the baal harachamim
You in your great mercy
Have created this disease
No matter what challenges
Upon me and klal yisrael
I proclaim
You are the cause of all causes
I release my will
May my will beYour will
I am connecting to teshuva
As I reach out to You,
Please accept my request for embrace
The thought that I am the beginning, cause or effect
Of anything
Please forgive me for these thoughts
I do teshuva
Ratzo vshav
You are the first of the first
Connecting to divine compassion
You are showering upon me and klal yirael
I am nothing
But my essence is You
I am the moon
Reflecting only your light
Rachamim
OHR
I purify
I refine
to reveal my true Self
Elokus
Once purified
we are like the MOON
WE HAVE NOT LIGHT OF OUR OWN
what imprisons us is nullified
Deep Teachings on the
Blast of the Shofar
A meditation on the Nishmas Shiur by Jody Feld / 23 Elul 5781
One week before Rosh Hashana
Remember
where I was last Rosh Hashanah
When I heard the shofar
Where did I go?
What happened inside of me?
Contrast that with
Where will I take it?
If I blast my limitations out of the water
I can achieve my purpose
That Hashem put me on this earth to be
That my being can serve Hashem
with all of my physicality / gashmius
and spiritual soul / ruchnius
Can the shofar blast take me
To my personal Geula?
As I peel away
my limitations
One week before Rosh Hashana
I run to Hashem
and humbly ask for help
To achieve my Geula pratit / Personal Geula
To reach true freedom
consciously blasting through my barriers and limitations
Like, I can only accomplish this a little bit
The satan / yetzer hara
knows how to trip me up
He knows
through the blast of the shofar
I can be aroused
Lhitorer
to the pure point in my heart
To my nekuda tehora
This year
Through this critical mass of teshuva
May enough of us
break through our own limitations and boundaries
and bring on the sound of the Great Shofar
The Yetzer Hara says
Maybe they really did it
Maybe they finally brought on the sound of the great shofar
The satan has more Emunah in us
Than we do!!
He knows how Hashem made us
He’s just waiting for us to pull us up
Not waiting for someone else to do it
By keeping ourselves limited and constricted
Realize
who I really have the potential to be
I can blast through the ways
I straitjacket my self
If there’s enough of us doing this
Now we can bring on the Geula
We have greater potential
collectively
This Rosh Hashana
Before going to shul
ask yourself
What is the Geula pratit / personal Geula for me?
So when the shofar blast comes
this time
It will be easier to access
My personal
and our collective
geula
Perhaps we can say that
GD dwells in the 'unclarity',
"shochein bearofel"
as that is when we passionately seek Him,
in our helpless,
not knowing, ego diminished state.
It consequently may flip (when accessing dveikus)
into a portal for His revelation of our Shechina.
The epitome of clear knowing.