When you Mount
THE BIG IDEA
After months of deep spiritual cleansing, and celebration of torah (consciousness) coming into the world, we are finally ready to move forward.
Beholotecha ( When You Mount ), the source of this week’s Torah Omens, puts our life into motion.
Watch the cloud of awe lift. Hear the trumpet blow. Step away from the Holy Mountain. (wherever you are in this life and this world).
Do your best to notice the impulse to doubt or protest. Are your complaints because you want to draw close to the light? or do you complain for the imagined comforts of life? Admit exhaustion, if you are overwhelmed, accept help when it comes. The light we drew close with our passover effort, is also a fire that burns.**
Use this fire energy for your benefit.
Prophetic clarity and vision can appear at anytime. Trust your inner guidance. To receive the spirit you must be spiritually healthy and vibrant.
Be on high alert for gossip, flattery, lying, or mockery. Look first into yourself, then scan the people around you— isolate until you clear yourself from these distorted ways of relating in this world.
The same fire that ignites us* is also the fire that burns**
*when we make a spiritually productive choice and things go well.
**when we make a bad choice and suffer the consequences.
PRAYER EXERCISE
This is the week, Miriam is cast out of the camp for 7 days for speaking with her brother Aaron about their other brother Moses. Specifically about his wife, and her and Aaron’s spiritual merits against their brother Moses’.
God calls the three of them to the Tent of Meeting and offers his perspective on their bother Moses, the most humble that ever was, the man that speaks mouth to mouth with the Source Energy of the Universe, (not as others do, through a dream). This angered God leaves Miriam and Tzara’at, the physical sign of spiritual sickness is inflicted on those with misaligned speech.
Aaron, the high priest and her brother assesses spiritual damage, turns to his brother, Moses, to ask for forgiveness. It is as if in that moment he understands the level Moses had achieved. And Moses, without hesitation, screams to the heavens, for the healing of his sister, the water carrier, the female prophet, the sister that saved his life. He cries out to heal the feminine within us all.
Please, God, Heal her. (with grace)
This weekend, pray for the repair of your emotional body. Pray for a complete healing for your physical body and the bodies around you.
Tap into the prayer that was released when Miriam was isolated.
Use the consciousness that is provided through the story of her shame.
This weekend if you find yourself engaging in in gossip, slander or mocking, flattery, and lies. Any category of evil speech. JUST STOP. Examine yourself. Get curious about the thoughts that are moving through you. Why are you thinking that negative thought?
And feed that thought to Moses’ prayer to help clear yourself and us all.
Please, God, Heal her. (with grace)
Passuk,
Mantra,
Prayer,
May we merit the healing of all that hurts and is broken in this world.
Shabbat Shalom!