Living with the Times“ Mystic Calendar  for

Wednesday-Naso PARSHA:  Netzah   of  Hod

by Rav Rahmiel Drizin:

Year: 5770 = 5 [Yesod] 7 [Hod] 7 [ Hod] 0 [Malkut]

Season: Spring  Alef א

Month: Sivan

Attributes of the month of Sivan: Ruling permutation of the letters of HAVAYAH:   יְוּהַהַ contained in the initial Hebrew letters of Yedotav U-letzela

Hamiskan Hasheinit – יְ דֹתָיו – וּ לְצֶלַע הַ מִּשְׁכָּן הַ שֵּׁנִית“…for its tenons and for the second side of the tabernacle…” (Exodus 26:19-20).

The month’s corresponding letter is: ז ZAYIN;

Human attribute: MOTION;

Body Part: LEFT FOOT; Left ear of Nok ;

Tribe: ZEVULUN;

Constellation: TE-OMIM (Gemini, the Twins).  Tiferet of Nok;

Color:  gold

Day Wednesday-Netzah:  Shavuot–Tiferet 2-8 Abba

Import of the Day http://www.chassidusonline.com/baalshemtov.html

In honor of the 250th Anniversary of the Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh this Shavout, from R. Tal Zwecker

The Baal Shem Tov’s vision

In a letter to his brother-in-law, Rabbi Gershon Kitover, the Baal Shem Tov relates: “On Rosh Hashanah of the year 5507 I made an ‘ascent of soul’… I ascended level after level until I reached the chamber of the Moshiach… And I asked Moshiach: “When will the Master come?”
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My dear teacher Rav Yitzchak Schwartz is leaving for his US trip in less than two weeks,

re-posting his teaching topics and new projects, the Masters Track:

RAV YITZCHAK SCHWARTZ’ LATEST TELEPHONE AND 1 ON 1 TOPICS

THE MASTERS PROJECT

Dear friends,

My USA trip is only 2 weeks away [June 1-5 Cleveland, June 6-12 Maui, June 13-23 NYC] …..I tend to broaden my horizons prior to a trip, and peak into the future [even beyond the timeline of my trip], and try to explore what I’d like to be doing during the trip and afterwards….I hereby present to you the results of this exploration….I want to be able to grow—and at the same time share that growth with special people in an intense way…

I think the best way to do that, is in the context of a series of ongoing, personalized telephone sessions…..My trip could enable me to meet with interested people for one on one sessions[or possibly small groups]—to give us a taste of good things and good growth to come–though I am ready to begin now or whenever we are ready….I hope to blend text learning with tools and meditative teachings as well as personal guidance….

Though I am open to create a totally personalized track for anyone interested, I would like to suggest the following topics that I believe will be inspiring and attractive for many different types of people [and of course myself]…….The common denominator besides growth, is the idea of MASTERY—– mastering Torah and Kabbalah Text and Judaism areas in the first track , and in the other track, mastering the art of living in a way that’s beyond our present level….

If you’re interested , please email me at yitzchakschwartz@msn.com and we’ll work out together, all the necessary details….

and for more info about my upcoming trips , see my 3 latest facebook pages;

Kabbalah Maui or on ParadisePronciple blog

Kabbalah on maui

Kabbalah in new york

THE MASTERS TRACK

1. MASTER OF SAGES WISDOM

Let’s become Masters—even mini masters, of the totally unique world view of our Sages , ancient and contemporary….Let’s complete sections of the Aggadata [the Homiletical part of the Talmud]….Let’s see the world as they see it with specialized texts and teachings that penetrate systematically to uncover their “Daat Torah’’[their Torah perspective way of engaging all aspects of life], until we can begin to develop Daat Torah as well…

2. MASTER OF KABBALISTIC WISDOM
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Chodesh Tov!

Rosh Chodesh (Head of the Month) – New Moon Festival is described in the Torah as the day of rejoicing (Bamidbar (Numbers) 10:10) , the time of renewal. Even the word “Chodesh” – month – comes from the root “חדש” – “Chadash” – “NEW”.

Like all “moadim” – appointed times – Rosh Hodesh is the time of opportunity. The deeper meaning of Holidays and special times in Torah is not “commemoration” of some event, but an active opportunity to use the flow of energy that is descending at that time into the physical world. On Rosh Chodesh, the surge of energy that is creating the reality of the upcoming month is available to us – and the way to receive it is to be joyous!

This is because joy causes us to be expansive and enables us to receive Hashem’s light. On the contrary, negative emotions e.g., sadness, make us contract and unable to turn on our “receptive mode”
After ensuring that we do fulfill Torah’s directive to be joyous, we can harness that energy of Rosh Chodesh withTefillah. We can target specific issues in our prayer – because it’s much easier to change the month in its conception.

This can be compared to a garden hose that can create various shapes of a spout by twisting the nozzle – because it’s changing the shape of a jetstream of water in the place where it is forming.

Of course when we talk about “Changing the month”, we mean “Changing ourselves” in order to create the new month of opportunities for spiritual growth. The change is always easier when level of energy is high – if we direct the energy into changing ourselves in Tefillah, it will be used constructively, if we are oblivious to the chance, the energy can even destabilize us or dissipate inconsequentially.

In a sense, Rosh Chodesh is similar to Rosh HaShanah – just with a different scope.

Just like Rosh HaShanah helps us to create a new year full of opportunities, so does Rosh Chodesh give us a chance to break out of our routine and rise up.

Rosh Chodesh is also regarded as a special time for Jewish women. You can read the standard explanation “why?” here, but I think the deeper reason for women’s special connection to Rosh Chodesh, is that our ladies are much more in tune with the dynamics of time and renewal.

Men need rigorous halachic times laws just to be basically in sync with spiritual reality,

while women are exempt from those laws – because they are generally already in tune with times and do not need specific Halachah for that. Interestingly, many Chassidic Tzaddikim were known to be very liberal with halachic times – perhaps because they reached the level of being in tune with times – similar to what most women have from birth.

So while women might be more in tune with the energy of Lunar renewal, men also try to catch up with Kiddush Levanah – another wonderful mitzvah using the Lunar energy of growth and rejuvenation. B’Ezrat Hashem we will discuss it in one of the future postings.

Today is the first day of Sivan and in 4 days we have Chag Shavuot – holiday of receiving the Torah. The energy needed to form the Holiday is also descending today – so we start defining our receiving of the Torah already today!

Good Month Sivan to everyone!

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