Rosh Chodesh
Circle Dance

Cheshvan 5784
Meditation During the War / Finding Shalom

Mem Sofit / Shalom Meditation

💞Join The Circle Dance מחול Machol

Cheshvan: Bringing out the Good Scent of our Souls & Strengthening Each Other's Vitality
with
ROCHEL LEAH WEIMAN
from Tzfat, EY   


The dance of the future (ie. NOW ;)...
Please come join the dance, the wheel, the ingathering of the shards of Shechinah - let us share our individual Light and unify into the Kallah we are meant to be - so that our Chassan will transform the Aveilus / mourning into Machol מחול and come dance in our midst.

RABBANIT DEVORAH BENYAMIN

.אורות הקדש ג׳:ב׳:ו׳
יסוד הכללות קא.
היסוד הכללי.

רוצה להביא כאן מקור שיכול לעזור לנו לקבל פרספקטיבה על השעה ועל הרוח הגדולה ואלפי מפעלי ההתנדבות שאנו עדים להם

I want to bring here a source that can help us get a perspective on the time and the great spirit and the thousands of volunteer projects that we witness

האדם צריד להחלץ תמיד ממסגרותיו הפרטיות,
Man always needs to escape from his private frameworks, which fill his entire essence,

הממלאות את כל מהותו, עד שכל רעיונותיו סובבים תמיד רק על דבר גורלו הפרטי,
until all his ideas always revolve only around the matter of his private destiny,

שזהו מוריד את האדם לעומק הקטנות, ואין קץ ליסורים גשמיים ורוחניים, המסובבים מזה.

That this brings a person down to the depths of pettiness, and there is no end to the physical and spiritual torments that result from this.

אבל צריך שתהיה מחשבתו ורצונו, ויסוד רעיונותיו נתונים להכללות,

But his thought and will must be, and the basis of his ideas subject to generalizations,

לכללות הכל, לכללות העולם, לאדם, לכללות ישראל, לכל היקום.

to the generalities of everything, to the generalities of the world, to man, to the generalities of Israel, to the entire universe.

ומזה תתבסס אצלו גם הפרטיות שלו בצורה הראויה.

And from this his privacy will also be established in the proper way.

וכל מה שהתפיסה הכללית היאיותר חזקה אצלו ככה תגדל שמחתו,

And whatever the general perception is stronger for him, so his joy will increase,

וככה יזכה יותר להארת האור האלהי כי שם מלא חל על עולם מלא,

And thus he will be more worthy of the illumination of the divine light because a full name applies to a full world,

ולית שכינתא שריא באתר חסיר,'

----

אלו דברי הרב קוק שמסייעים לנו להבין מה קורה לנו בזמן מלחמה ,These are Rabbi Kook's words that help us understand what happens to us during war,

נושרות מאיתנו העמדות האנוכיות( הקליפתיות היוצרות פירוד )

The selfish attitudes (the crusty ones that create separation) fall from us

ואז מתגלה המקום השורשי שאנו כלל שמשתלשל ממהות אחת כנסת ישראל.

And then the root place that we are a rule that dangles from the one essence of the Knesset of Israel is revealed.

זהו השורש שלנו
This is our root

.ובזמן הזה השורש מאיר בכל אחד.ומסייע להיות מחובר לכלל ניזון ומקבל ממנו .
And at this time the root shines in everyone and helps to be connected to a whole that feeds and receives from it.

הככלל הוא המציאות האורגנית שלימה ולכן עליו שורה שכינה ושמחה
The rule is the complete organic reality and therefore there is a line of Shekinah and Joy upon it

אנו רואים איך זה עובד אצל כל אחינו היקרים בלי מודעות זה פשוט ככה
We see how it works in all our dear brothers without awareness it's just like that

אנחנו יכולים לזכות להיות בחיבור הזה מתוך מודעות והודיה על הזכות להיות
We can be privileged to be in this connection out of awareness and gratitude for the privilege of being

פועלים עם א-ל

עם כנסת ישראל

להביא לעולם מתוקן יותר.
Activations with Hashem
with the Knesset of Israel
to bring about a better world.

תפילות וחסדים
להיות בגופינו ובנפשינו שריים לכנסת ישראל
prayers and graces
To be healthy in body and soul for the Knesset of Israel

No two individuals possess the same Light      
One is depended upon to ignite one’s lantern and share it with the world
The entire universe is waiting for yours.

-Kotzker Rebbe

THE CIRCLE DANCE

We welcome you to the launching of a dream, a thousands-of-years-old dream, The Circle Dance.

The word "MACHOL" is found in Tanach several times. With the exception of one, in which we wail "gone is our joy, our dance has been switched to lament" (Eichah), the pssukim depict the glorious turnover that will take place at the End of Days as we usher in the Moshiach. Commencing  with Miriam HaNeviyah's circle dance with the women and their tambourines at the foot of the sea, through the joyous words of David HaMelech- "You have switched my lament into MACHOL..." - and concluding his beautiful Tehillim with praising Hashem "with tambourine and MACHOL" among other instruments, and finally  Yirmiyahu's promise "you shall yet be rebuilt, Besulas Yisroel, you shall yet be equipped with your tambourine and MACHOL..." , we are again and again encouraged with the hopeful song of Redemption, a new song so great that we will burst into joyous dance.

MACHOL is the dance of equality

MACHOL is the dance of equality, the collective wheel with individual spokes. It is the dance of the unified sparks of Ohr that is us- each of us a shard of shattered Shechinah, each of us a unique slice of Elokus, each with our own piece of Torah to share.  It is the joy of Gilui Shechinah and the Feminine energy which will wash away the painful concept of hierarchy that rules our world today.  It is Knesses Yisroel,  united as One Kallah, circling Her Chassan, HKBH. As the Gemara proclaims, it is the dance of the future- "Usid HKBH la'asos MACHOL la'Tzaddikim v'Hu yosheiv beineihem b'Gan Eden."    

As some of you may know, a few of us women just completed a 25-week course based on deep Pnimius HaTorah, called KumiOhri. During our last session, which "just happened" to take place on 17 Tammuz (our usual day of meeting was Tuesday) we discussed the idea of HKBH flipping "AVEILUS"  into "MACHOL", the Circle Dance. We all agreed it would be wonderful to create a Circle Dance, an open-to-everyone space in which every woman has her chance to share a sliver of her very own Ohr with the rest of us. We figured we'd begin with once a month, on or near Rosh Chodesh.

If you are (or someone you know is)  ready to share your Ohr, we are thrilled to listen!!! Please let us know asap, so we can schedule you in  for the future...

Very much looking forward,

Besuros tovos only,
The Circle Dance