Conventional wisdom has long held that the Babylonians were among the first to use a 360-day 12 month calendar, but the Biblical record shows a different scenario. This study will reveal the record of the Biblical Patriarch Noah using this 360-day calendar prior to the great flood. Since Noah and his family were the only human survivors to live after the flood, all men can trace their genetic roots to his family. Thus the many cultural records of the great deluge found in ancient myths and archaeological records, obviously were written down after the flood, and would have followed Noah and his descendants. Noah is a key Biblical Patriarch because he represents the transition between the pre-flood and the post-flood world. Thus all the systems of Biblical timekeeping that we have already documented in the article on The Calendar of the Biblical Patriarchs, going back to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, after the flood, including the coordination of the luni-solar year, the year divided into 12 months of 30 days, giving a 360-day year relating to the 360 degrees of the circle, all are traceable back to Noah's day. Thus, the calendrical practices of the Biblical Patriarchs are summarized in Noah, combining the Lunar, Solar and Sidereal years in his standards of timekeeping. Since Noah was already 600 years old when the flood waters descended upon Earth [Gen. 7:6], Noah continued the use of his calendar leading up to and during the 120-year period (120 x 3= 360) wherein he built the Ark. The construction of the ark was according to God's revealed plan, which follows a consistent divine pattern, the same tripartite pattern found in the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of David and Solomon. Before we provide the evidence for Noah's 360-day calendar, let's review some additional evidence for the calendar based on the star Sirius. We have already documented the recognition of the star Sirius or Sothic Calendarin the Book of Job [Job 38:12-15], as the oldest book in Biblical Canon and the only book of the Bible specifically addressed to the time period known as the Patriarchal Administration, [see our Timeline]. Historically, the Sothic Calendarfirst appears in ancient Egypt as the earliest 365-day calendar in history. One detail to notice here is that every 4 years the 365-day calendar falls behind the 365.25-day calendar, which is where our modern practice of the "leap year" comes in to correct this problem. Thus, every 4 years (365 x 4 = 1460 days) a leap-day was added to keep the coordination of the calendar in place. Job tells us that these calendrical practices were already in place among the Biblical Patriarchs, as part and parcel of their standard practices in Astronomyand timekeeping, which God first revealed to Adam.
Job 38:31-33 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth the Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
As we take a detailed look at the record of Noah's flood in Genesis 7, the first thing that requires our attention is the septenary pattern of the temporal record. In verse 4, God tells Noah that the flood rains were going to begin in seven days... From the very start of the events of the Creation Week, God had ordered temporal things according to a week of seven days. There is no historical precedent for a 7-day week in history that cannot be traced back to what the Creator instituted in the Creation Week [Ex. 31:15-16]. Thus the Sabbatical yearfounded upon this standard [Levi. 25:8], has continued through all sacred and secular calendars that followed, not only in Israel, but around the world. In Noah's Calendar the recorded dates of the flood in Genesis 7-8 are all Sabbaths, with one exception which we will discuss presently.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, theseventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
This is the first time the word "month" is used in the Bible, upon which the Lunar Monthwas founded in Israel. The first day of the New Moonwas considered holy, and was associated with the weekly sabbath, and was usually first visible near sunset. This also explains why the day began at sunset in Hebrew timekeeping. The New Moonthat began every month [Num. 28:11], especially in the holiest seventh month [Num. 29:1], were special days of sacrifice and offerings to the Lord, which were enshrined throughout the Old Testament Law in the Tabernacle and Temple of Israel. In keeping with this septenary pattern of God's temporal order, the seven sabbaths of years became 49 years, leading unto the 50th year of the Jubilee [Levi. 25:8-13]. As we have seen already the luni-solar year was harmonized according to the 50-year Jubilee via the phi ratio, with 618 lunations in each 50-year cycle. This harmony of the luni-solar year allowed a predictive capability pertaining to the eclipse cycle, which was terrifying to the ancient cultures based on divination, but not to the Biblical Patriarchs, for whom divination was forbidden by God. Instead these men of God reaped the benefits of honoring the Creator for His Handiwork, and enjoyed the precision by which He set the celestial orbs in their paths, as a witness to His glory. It should be noted that man has continued to struggle with this coordination of the Solar and Lunar Cycles throughout the rest of the history of human timekeeping, and it remains a problem even into modern times. Due to the evolutionary bias in modern science, most researchers have not been willing to give the Creator His due when it comes to recognizing His Intelligent Design of these elements of Creation, along with the ordinances of Heaven that rule on Earth. Their preference has been to choose to continue chasing their theoretical tails in the scientific and social circles that they frequent, so they can take credit for their scientific "discoveries," and keep those reseach dollars flowing. As has been documented in Ben Stien's recent film "Expelled," any researcher or educator who even mentions the words Intelligent Design has been blackballed by the evolutionary thought police, and many times lost their tenure and professional teaching positions as a result. This is the same social environment, influenced by athieism that has prohibited God from being mentioned in the classroom, and called into question the very idea of American politicians opening their deliberations with prayer. It has always been a recognition and honoring of the Creator that provided the impetus of the Natural Law approach to Astronomy, whose influence was key in the development of a predictive mathematical Astronomy that far exceeds any Astrology carried out by the ancient heathen idolators. Their divination only served to degrade the original truth of the Astronomy of the Biblical Patriarchs, which accounts for the roots of the world monomyth. For additional information and further evidence of this corruption based on Astrology, please refer to our study on Biblical Astronomy vs. Astrology, including the section on "The Corrupted Constellations," which will give specific cases where the astrological practices of divination changed the original meaning the Creator attached to specific star pictures. [Ps. 147:4] We should also take note that the specific calendar days marked in the Biblical record of the flood, were later enshrined as holy days in the Old Testament Law. The months of the year were designated by number, 3 of them in this record [2nd, Gen. 7:11, 7th, Gen. 8:4, 10th, Gen. 8:5]. Most of the other numbered months are named in the Penteteuch, which confirms that Noah was working with the same MazzarothJob was; an entire zodiac of 12, 30-day months, as implied in the 360 degrees of the circle linked to the 360 days of this calendar. These twelve months were not named in Israel until after the Babylonian captivity, centuries later. This tropical zodiacalso incorporates a practical knowledge of the pi ratioat work in Noah's calendar, long before it was ever considered in ancient Astrologyor celestial science. More importantly, it gives us a decisive glimpse of the mathematical sophistication inherent in this Calendar of the Biblical Patriarchs, without doubt revealed by God, not motivated by divination, but the Revelatory Astronomydisclosed to these ancient Patriarchs, long prior to the development of any celestial science in ancient Mesopotamia. The origins of the mathematical standards of a Sexegesimal place-value notation are also evident in this system revealed by the Creator, based on the dual solar yearof both its annualand precessional cycles. The great cycle of the precession of the equinoxesframed by the 20-year Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction cycle, provides a window on this SexegesimalRhythmof precession, that was the basis of every major celestial calendar of the ancient world. The 12 months of 30-days in the 360 day-year of Noah's Calendar, all multiples of 60, provide values where each degree of time was equal to 1/360 of a day, or 4 minutes. This gives us the 60 second-minute, the 60-minute-hour, and the (6 x 60) 360-degree circle, all of which we still use in the modern world. This place-value notation system afforded all kinds of mathematical calculations from algebra to linear and quadratic equations, which Otto Neugebauer says: "became the foundation of a theoretical of mathematical character,Astronomy"2 the ancestor of modern scientific Astronomy.
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
According to the calendar of 12 months with 30 days each, utilized by Noah, this 150 day period consisted of 5 months. This is established in Gen. 8:3b, which states: "and after the end of the one hundred and fifty days the waters were abated." If we add these 5 months to the second month mentioned in 7:11, we come to the seventh month.
Genesis 8:4-5 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the firstdayof the month, were the tops [rosh; H7218] of the mountains seen.
From the 17th day of the 2nd month, to the 17th of the 7th month is exactly 5 months, in the 12 month, 30-day calendar. The Hebrew word for the "tops" of the mountains in verse 5: "rosh" [H7218]2 in the context of Noah's calendar, is also rendered "Dog-star" in Job 38:13 and 15,in reference to the star Sirius, in The Revised English Bible.3The ancients many times used the mountain ranges set against their horizon, as a reference point to orient themselves regarding the seasonal positions of the stars, Sun and Moon in their cycles.Archaeo-Astronomynotes a rich history of this practice in ancient cultures of the world and this could be very early evidence, perhaps even of the origins of this practice with the Biblical Patriarchs. This would also have associated the only star that provides a 365.25-day calendar, that also happens to be the brightest star in the heavens, with the highest mountain peaks where the Ark came to rest. If this is evidence of Noah's wisdom regarding the recognition of the Sirius or Sothic Calendaras it became known in ancient Egypt, it gives us an initial glimpse that the Biblical Patriarchs kept both of these calendars at the same time, as part of their harmonized luni-solar year. This also agrees with the Creator's purpose for the celestial lights stated in Genesis 1:14-17, to shed light upon the earth, in relation to the timekeeping of weeks, days and years. The luni-solar harmony based on the phi ratio[1.618...] which contains 618 lunations in every 50-year Jubilee cycle, exhibits the divine signature of the Creator's handiwork, as the "Source of life" throughout all levels of His Creation. This is why we also find the phi ratioor the divine proportion, so ubiquitously in all levels of the Kingdoms of Life in Nature. The phi ratio is the master pattern of all growth life on earth, as various life forms progress through succeeding geometric stages of life development.
Quantum theory, modern math, must take into account 'probabilities'. Conspiracy theories are far more probable than modern science wankers trying to time travel by building a time tunnel or a worm hole. Beam me up stevepenny?
Don't ya think a land based terrestrial conspiracy probably exists? More than a celestial one based on aliens, ufos or messiahs?
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What is the mathematical construct of a swastika, i.e. how is it described mathematically. Can it also be described on a 'fractal' basis using Chaos theory?
chaos theory? is it connected to fractals in any way? Yes I can find theswastika inside the Mandelbrot Set.
Can we also connect theswastika to the world's largest megalithic stonesever quarried in a place called Baalbek? And to the magnificent Roman Temple of Jupiter? Go here: http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showp...postcount=2271
So what did I just do Steve? Did you notice what I just accomplished? Why I believe the swastika symbol is the MISSING LINK, the real Lost Symbol, that Dan Brown never even found? Any potentialtheory of everything, to be considered must accomplish what I just did...show profound connections between the MACROCOSM and the MICROCOSM.
please note:I just linked the swastika to the first 4 lines of theEmeraldTablet.
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Sir Isaac Newton's interpretation of theEmeraldTablet.
1. Tis true without lying, certain most true. 2. That which is below is like that which is above that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing. 3. And as all things have been arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation. 4. The Sun is its father, the moon its mother... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
Tis true without lying, certain most true, I have just linked the two versions of the swastika tothat which is below is like that which is above that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing. Have I not illustrated that the biggest MACROCOSMIC stones ever quarried by man can be linked to the sameprocesses, meditations and adaptions of this one thing given birthby the infinitesimal small MICROCOSMIC fractal?
The Sun is its fatherand it rotates clockwise or sunwise,and the Moon its mother, rotating counter-clockwise or ANTI.
And archetypes can be translated as you move from one dimension to another. We can use the same definition for the two interlaced helices of DNA that are rotating in opposite directions.
Thus the SWASTIKA continues to prove itself theKEY to Universal Movement(spinning vortex) being veiled by both biblical and scientific scholars.
Any connection between the Emerald Tablet, LSD, 4 leaf clovers and little green men issoulyby design.
Maybe one of the Freemasons can offer why the barbershop spiral isREDandWHITE? Any connection to Satan, err I mean the red and white coca cola promotion depicting Santa? Is there a connection to red and white flags? Red crosses on White backgrounds or is it White crosses on Red backgrounds?
R.I.P. Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot ( 27-08-1945, 11-07-1999 ) was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System
2. Di a los hijos de Israel que tomen para mí ofrenda; de todo varón que la diere de su voluntad, de corazón, tomaréis mi ofrenda.
3. Esta es la ofrenda que tomaréis de ellos: oro, plata, cobre,
4. azul, púrpura, carmesí, lino fino, pelo de cabras,
5. pieles de carneros teñidas de rojo, pieles de tejones, madera de acacia,
6. aceite para el alumbrado, especias para el aceite de la unción y para el incienso aromático,
7. piedras de ónice, y piedras de engaste para el efod y para el pectoral.
8. Y harán un santuario para mí, y habitaré en medio de ellos.
9. Conforme a todo lo que yo te muestre, el diseño del tabernáculo, y el diseño de todos sus utensilios, así lo haréis.
10. Harán también un arca de madera de acacia, cuya longitud será de dos codos y medio, su anchura de codo y medio, y su altura de codo y medio.
11. Y la cubrirás de oro puro por dentro y por fuera, y harás sobre ella una cornisa de oro alrededor.
12. Fundirás para ella cuatro anillos de oro, que pondrás en sus cuatro esquinas; dos anillos a un lado de ella, y dos anillos al otro lado.
13. Harás unas varas de madera de acacia, las cuales cubrirás de oro.
14. Y meterás las varas por los anillos a los lados del arca, para llevar el arca con ellas.
15. Las varas quedarán en los anillos del arca; no se quitarán de ella.
16. Y pondrás en el arca el testimonio que yo te daré.
17. Y harás un propiciatorio de oro fino, cuya longitud será de dos codos y medio, y su anchura de codo y medio.
18. Harás también dos querubines de oro; labrados a martillo los harás en los dos extremos del propiciatorio.
19. Harás, pues, un querubín en un extremo, y un querubín en el otro extremo; de una pieza con el propiciatorio harás los querubines en sus dos extremos.
20. Y los querubines extenderán por encima las alas, cubriendo con sus alas el propiciatorio; sus rostros el uno enfrente del otro, mirando al propiciatorio los rostros de los querubines. (25.20)
21. Y pondrás el propiciatorio encima del arca, y en el arca pondrás el testimonio que yo te daré.
22. Y de allí me declararé a ti, y hablaré contigo de sobre el propiciatorio, de entre los dos querubines que están sobre el arca del testimonio, todo lo que yo te mandare para los hijos de Israel.
23. Harás asimismo una mesa de madera de acacia; su longitud será de dos codos, y de un codo su anchura, y su altura de codo y medio.
24. Y la cubrirás de oro puro, y le harás una cornisa de oro alrededor.
25. Le harás también una moldura alrededor, de un palmo menor de anchura, y harás a la moldura una cornisa de oro alrededor.
26. Y le harás cuatro anillos de oro, los cuales pondrás en las cuatro esquinas que corresponden a sus cuatro patas.(EL NUMERO CUATRO ES UNA REFERENCIA AL ESTE-OESTE-NORTE-SUR O A LAS A CUATRO FASES DE LA LUNA O AL MISMO NUMERO PI QUE DEPENDE DE DICHO NUMERO)
27. Los anillos estarán debajo de la moldura, para lugares de las varas para llevar la mesa.
28. Harás las varas de madera de acacia, y las cubrirás de oro, y con ellas será llevada la mesa.
29. Harás también sus platos, sus cucharas, sus cubiertas y sus tazones, con que se libará; de oro fino los harás.
30. Y pondrás sobre la mesa el pan de la proposición delante de mí continuamente.
31. Harás además un candelero de oro puro; labrado a martillo se hará el candelero; su pie, su caña, sus copas, sus manzanas y sus flores, serán de lo mismo.
32. Y saldrán seis brazos de sus lados; tres brazos del candelero a un lado, y tres brazos al otro lado. (TREINTA Y TRES)
33.Tres copas en forma de flor de almendro en un brazo, una manzana y una flor; y tres copas en forma de flor de almendro en otro brazo, una manzana y una flor; así en los seis brazos que salen del candelero; (EXODO 25:33=TREINTA Y TRES=MENORAH= "MAQUINA DEL TIEMPO")
34. y en la caña central del candelero cuatro copas en forma de flor de almendro, sus manzanas y sus flores.
35. Habrá una manzana debajo de dos brazos del mismo, otra manzana debajo de otros dos brazos del mismo, y otra manzana debajo de los otros dos brazos del mismo, así para los seis brazos que salen del candelero.
36. Sus manzanas y sus brazos serán de una pieza, todo ello una pieza labrada a martillo, de oro puro.
37. Y le harás siete lamparillas, las cuales encenderás para que alumbren hacia adelante.
38. También sus despabiladeras y sus platillos, de oro puro.
39. De un talento de oro fino lo harás, con todos estos utensilios.
40. Mira y hazlos conforme al modelo que te ha sido mostrado en el monte.
LA LETRA S (SABIDURIA/SABADO/DRACO/$) EN EL ALFABETO INGLES ES LA LETRA NUMERO 19-IMPRESIONANTE CLAVE MASONICA CON REFERENCIA AL SABADO SEGUN LAS FASES DE LA LUNA
The month of August is upon us once again, bringing with it humid days and sultry nights for North American observers.
You’ll often hear the first few weeks of August referred to as the Dog Days of Summer. Certainly, the oppressive midday heat may make you feel like lounging around in the shade like our canine companions. But did you know there is an astronomical tie-in for the Dog Days as well?
We’ve written extensively about the Dog Days of Summer previously, and how the 1460 year long Sothic Cycle of the ancient Egyptians became attributed to the Greek adoption of Sothis, and later in medieval times to the ‘Dog Star’ Sirius. Like the Blue Moon, say something wrong enough, long enough, and it successfully sticks and enters into meme-bank of popular culture.
Sirius (to the lower right) along with The Moon, Venus and Mercury and a forest fire taken on July 22, 2014. (Note- this was shot from the Coral Towers Observatory in the southern hemisphere). Image credit and copyright: Joseph Brimacombe
A water monopoly empire, the Egyptians livelihood rested on knowing when the annual flooding of the Nile was about to occur. To this end, they relied on the first seasonal spotting of Sirius at dawn. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, and you can just pick out the flicker of Sirius in early August low to the southeast if you know exactly where to look for it.
Sundown over Cairo during the annual flooding of the Nile river. Image Credit: Travels through the Crimea, Turkey and Egypt 1825-28 (Public Domain).
Sirius lies at a declination of just under 17 degrees south of the celestial equator. It’s interesting to note that in modern times, the annual flooding of the Nile (prior to the completion of the Aswan Dam in 1970) is commemorated as occurring right around August 15th. Why the discrepancy? Part of it is due to the 26,000 year wobbling of the Earth’s axis known as the Precession of the Equinoxes; also, the Sothic calendar had no intercalculary or embolismic (think leap days) to keep a Sothic year in sync with the sidereal year. The Sothic cycle from one average first sighting of Sirius to another is 365.25 days, and just 9 minutes and 8 seconds short of a sidereal year.
The Djoser step pyramid outside of Cairo. Image credit: Dave Dickinson
But that does add up over time. German historian Eduard Meyer first described the Sothic Cycle in 1904, and tablets mention its use as a calendar back to 2781 BC. And just over 3 Sothic periods later (note that 1460= 365.25 x 4, which is the number of Julian years equal to 1461 Sothic years, as the two cycles ‘sync up’), and the flooding of the Nile now no longer quite coincides with the first sighting of Sirius.
Such a simultaneous sighting with the sunrise is known in astronomy as a heliacal rising. Remember that atmospheric extinction plays a role sighting Sirius in the swampy air mass of the atmosphere low to the horizon, taking its usual brilliant luster of magnitude -1.46 down to a more than a full magnitude and diminishing its intensity over 2.5 times.
This year, we transposed the seasonal predicted ‘first sightings’ of Sirius versus latitude onto a map of North America:
Optimal sighting dates for the heliacal rising of Sirius by latitude. Image credit: Dave Dickinson, adapted from data by Ed Kotapish.
Another factor that has skewed the date of first ‘Sirius-sign’ is the apparent motion of the star itself. At 8.6 light years distant, Sirius appears to move 1.3 arc seconds per year. That’s not much, but over the span of one Sothic cycle, that amounts up to 31.6’, just larger than the average diameter of a Full Moon.
Sirius has been the star of legends and lore as well, not the least of which is the curious case of the Dogon people of Mali and their supposed privileged knowledge of its white dwarf companion star. Alvan Graham Clark and his father discovered Sirius B in 1862 as they tested out their shiny new 18.5-inch refractor. And speaking of Sirius B, keep a telescopic eye on the Dog Star, as the best chances to spy Sirius B peeking out from the glare of its primary are coming right up around 2020.
The dazzling visage of Sirius. Image credit: Dave Dickinson
Repeating the visual feat of spying Sirius B low in the dawn can give you an appreciation as to the astronomical skill of ancient cultures. They not only realized the first sighting of Sirius in the dawn skies coincided with the annual Nile flooding, but they identified the discrepancy between the Sothic and sidereal year, to boot. Not bad, using nothing but naked eye observations. Such ability must have almost seemed magical to the ancients, as if the stars had laid out a celestial edge for the Egyptians to exploit.
Man’s best (observing) friend… Image credit: Dave Dickinson
You can also exploit one method of teasing out Sirius from the dawn sky a bit early that wasn’t available to those Egyptian astronomer priests: using a pair of binoculars to sweep the skies. Can you nab Sirius with a telescope and track it up into the daytime skies? Sirius is just bright enough to see in the daytime against a clear blue sky with good transparency if you know exactly where to look for it.
Como probablemente recuerdes, en Rosh Jódesh Elul aprendimos que Moshé subió a al monte y regreso en Yom Kipur, oró para que Dios restableciera con el pueblo la relación que había sido perdida al momento del becerro de oro. Moshé oró en este tiempo, no sólo por el perdón sino por la restauración del amor y la reconstrucción de la unidad.
Algunas personas dicen que Moshé abrió el viaducto de la misericordia y el amor entre Dios y la humanidad, de esa manera, desbloqueó una ventana con sus oraciones y creó un espacio para la expiación que ocurre en Yom Kipur.
Sin embargo, el Rav nos recuerda que Jerusalém no es una ciudad santa porque el Templo haya sido construido allí, sino más bien porque la tierra en sí, desde tiempos inmemoriales, era y sigue siendo un portal que revela la infusión más poderosa de Luz en este mundo físico.
Con eso en mente, sabemos que Moshé no era la causa de la apertura, sino que tenía acceso a un conocimiento de lo que ocurría en el Universo que hizo posible el regreso a la unidad con el Creador en el décimo día de Tishrei.
Lo que ocurre en el Cosmos durante Yom Kipur es una de las Sabidurías más prodigiosas que el mundo haya conocido. Profundizar en lo que nos dicen Rav Yitsjak Luria (el Arí) y Rav Áshlag es entender física cuántica, ciencias puras e historia bíblica al mismo tiempo. Esto lo enseñamos en todos nuestros Centros; el Rav y sus Maestros, y los Maestros de sus Maestros, arriesgaron todo para compartir esta Sabiduría con el mundo. Yo haré lo posible, a mi manera simple, para mostrarles una imagen de lo que ocurre en nosotros y en los Mundos Superiores en este tiempo.
A excepción de los diez días entre Rosh Hashaná y Yom Kipur, el Universo fue diseñado con el atributo de misericordia. Un filtro o velo que separa la causa del efecto, algo que nos permite transformarnos y cambiar antes de que se manifiesten en nuestra vida las consecuencias de nuestros actos. No obstante, en este período de diez días que termina con Yom Kipur, este filtro (Zeir Anpín) se va a dormir. Ahora sin él, pasamos por juicio completo, algo que generalmente consideramos como algo negativo porque nadie quiere el efecto inmediato de sus acciones negativas.
Sin embargo, ¿podemos intentar imaginar cómo sería si nuestros pensamientos y acciones sólo fueran positivos? El juicio sería entonces algo muy bueno, ya que nos beneficiaríamos inmediatamente, sin tiempo ni espacio, de esas acciones, esas buenas semillas que sembramos. Este es un concepto inimaginable, pero en este tiempo se nos da la posibilidad de separarnos de la negatividad que hemos creado. El propósito de Elul era desarraigar todas esas semillas negativas y reemplazarlas con unas nuevas. Si olvidamos algunas semillas, tenemos Rosh Hashaná, momento en el que podemos acabar con las cualidades negativas que olvidamos en Elul, debido a que la Luz de Biná brilla sobre nosotros sin el filtro del ahora durmiente Zeir Anpín.
Y luego, tenemos Yom Kipur justo antes de pasar el umbral de los meses masculinos del año (que comienzan el primero de Nisán y terminan al final de Elul) en los que sembramos las semillas, hacia los meses femeninos del año (que comienzan el primero de Tishrei y terminan al final de Adar) en los que las semillas se manifiestan. Este día especial es el último nivel de eliminación, en el que podemos apartar por completo esas cualidades negativas y eliminarlas de nuestro ser. Tal y como dice el Zóhar en la porción de Pinjás:
“Pero en este día, que es Yom Kipur que es llamado ‘sagrado’, el Árbol de la Vida está en control, y ningún diablo ni espíritu maligno se une con él, y de su lado “… El mal no habitará Contigo” (Salmos 5:5), sino que de punta a punta todo es bueno. Y es por esto que en él, en el Árbol de la Vida, los esclavos encuentran descanso y salen a la libertad, y emergen de sus cadenas”.
De esta manera, Maljut, que ahora está suelta, puede ascender a Biná para recibir todo lo que Biná puede darnos. El Rav se refiere a Biná como el almacén de Energía; la morada de lo Supremo, la más pura cualidad de la Luz que nos apoyará en el año entrante.
Espero que esto haya quedado claro. A veces es difícil usar nuestra mente para entender la magnitud de este proceso. Por eso, mejor usemos nuestro corazón.
Me encanta la poesía y las palabras que crean una imagen o provocan una sensación. A menudo me percato de que simples palabras pueden crear imágenes que abren nuestra conciencia y entendimiento. Mientras me preparaba para escribir este artículo, me topé con algo que me pareció muy hermoso y espero que a ustedes también les parezca. Se dice que en Yom Kipur nos conviene enumerar y recordar todo lo que hemos hecho y todo el dolor que hemos provocado. Se nos recuerda que incluso el mejor de nosotros ha sido cruel. Y, sin embargo, ¿cómo podemos ser felices mientras sabemos eso? ¿Cómo puede nuestra felicidad elevarnos a nuestro más alto y puro potencial mientras estamos atados al pensamiento de nuestros “pecados”?
Esto es muy hermoso. Yom Kipur trae un afloramiento de felicidad al Creador, cuando la humanidad desecha todas las impurezas de su interior mientras está en la entrada de Su Palacio. Para mí, esta conmovedora frase describe todo lo que ocurre en Yom Kipur, mientras el mundo físico asciende a Biná, nos deshacemos de lo que ensucia nuestra alma para así poder beneficiarnos de todo el tesoro de Su Palacio.
El Jayei Adam escribió: “Dios ama a Su pueblo, porque Él busca ser benevolente y no desea que ningún hombre muera, sino que se arrepienta del camino del mal y viva”.
Es importante recordar en este tiempo que todo lo que Dios quiere de nosotros es que escojamos dejar atrás lo que nos separa de Su Beneficencia. Yom Kipur da alegría a Dios y, a cambio, Dios nos la da motivado por el Amor.
Esto es lo que Moshé sabía. Y ahora, gracias a los kabbalistas, nosotros también lo sabemos.
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Article Updated: 23 Dec , 2015
The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates.
Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies.
She rests at last beneath the starry skys.