Seven days of creation with a page of art for each.
Week 7-/(Malchut) KINGDOM-Day 5/(Hod) SPLENDOR
If one believes in the creation of the world as said in the Torah then God is the first leader. Making the worlds and all that is in them tells me that God had a clear vision of what was desired. So then I wonder did we live up to God's expectations in the beginning? After a full week of making mountains, molehills mammals and mayim was the beauty of it all overwhelming? Did God feel a sense of humble awe at the splendor? When the human beings used their gift of free will was God proud or annoyed? Those of us who have been given the gift of leadership even for a short time can't ever know what God might have done differently if there was a do over. Even though with the flood there is that second chance it isn't the same as a total new beginning. Of course this assumes we were the first try. As I look at the seven pages of artwork each of my students did over the course of the year for their Torah I am awed and humbled by their talent. Magnificent.
After nightfall on Saturday:
BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM
ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU AL SEFI-RAT HA-OMER.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.
Today is forty-seven days which is six weeks and five days of the omer.
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