Hi everyone – we are starting today a period of time – forty days – like Mosess who spent forty days on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Utterances – we have a forty day period to prepare ourselves for the next year. Rosh Hashannah – the head of the New Year will be on day 31 and the process will end on Yom Kippur Known as the Day of Atonement. I hope to explain this whole process over the next forty days.
Today starts this process. Today is the beginning of the month of Virgo. The month of the virgin, the month of purity, the month of cleansing to achieve the state of “purity”. The month of Virgo is connected to the energy of Binah. Binah is our energy store. The numerical value of Elul is the same as Binah.There is a definite connection between the two.
What is purity? We define this as the process, that we will engage in over the next forty days, that will cleanse us of our negative actions that we did over the past year. This also needs explaining. Simply put we are responsible for our actions. The law of cause and effect is always in force. There are things that we are aware of and we must do – take an action – to correct that which we did. There are also actions and things that we have done that we are not really aware of- ignorance is no excuse – this is another law.
This forty day period is given to us as a time to discover all the things that we are not aware of and to bring it into consciousness. Once we bring it into awareness we can begin to deal with the issues. The next process after awareness is called “repentance”. This will also need to be explained. Simply put by the Zohar – all the actions that we are not aware of – Satan will find them and bring them to your spiritual trial that begins on Rosh Hashanah. Every action that we bring into awareness the satan will not have dominion. So lets do our work over the next forty days.
I will post an additional meditation each day from The Kabbalah Center International 1-800-kabbalah during this period
Friday August 21 – The arrows that pierce you the most are the ones released from your own bow. Self-doubt and self-hatred are your biggest obstacles in life.
The one minute reiki meditative thought: Just for today i will look at myself with kindness. Just for today I will forgive myself. Just for today whatever I do or do not do will be ok. Just for today I will let God create solutions. Just for today I will step out and let God in.