![]() ![]() Love is filled with the complexity of small steps, not grand ones, to say we care. Love is being honest inside yourself to make an important decision. Love is the emotional backbone to communicate differently with a loved one. Love is giving to even something we do not know in order to support every quarter from which may come an important answer to our crisis. Our personal and communal vulnerability is the great equalizer. At the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem came Shabbat as we know it today. Our ancient wisdom comes out of invention at a time of communal crisis. Marinate in your curiosity.Ĭuriosity leads to invention. In unprecedented times we don’t yet know enough to follow best practices. Coax your curiosity by listening to music, take a meditative moment, doodle. When fear comes up, temper it with something that will stimulate curiosity. Curiosity can convert fear into invention. ![]() Fear can be both unwieldy and clarifying. What kind of harvest do you hope for? What are some seeds you might plant now to reap a hoped for harvest as we come to Shavuot? Counting is a way to mark how we feel, things we might do, reflect on ourselves in the world, try something good. People count.Īt this time, whatever way each of us frames our Passover experience, this can be a time to use the Counting of the Omer to explore new ways to count. Some of us are counting the days of Shiva. Some of us are counting the days toward a good milestone, wondering how we will celebrate it. Some of us have been counting the days of isolation. Counting is a way we contain the sweep of human experience. We count down as in the number of days left to a vacation. We count up toward something like a birthday. To contain both this hope and anxiety our Rabbis developed the idea of counting to acknowledge the individual and communal range of spiritual reflection. It is 49 days to hold the journey from slavery to Sinai. It is 49 days of acknowledging the truth of anxiety and hope. From the night after the first seder, we count 49 days to Shavuot. Traditionally, we count the Omer to arrive to Shavuot, the holiday of covenanting at Sinai. In ancient times, as is true today, the anxiety for a good harvest was filled with the hope for a positive outcome, though it was not guaranteed. There is a ritual directly linked to Passover that holds this experience. And yet we took the leap of faith to try something new, not knowing its outcome but yet to hope. A spiritual truth to this story is that if we imagine we are a Child of Israel in that time, we do not know the end of our own story. ![]()
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