A newly "married" couple gives each other a loving hug.
Week 5-/Hod (SPLENDOR)-Day 6/Yesod (FOUNDATION)
"The Buddha said this: 'The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.' If you are not able to take care of yourself, if you are not able to accept yourself, how could you accept another person and how could you love him or her?"
-Thich Nhat Hanh-
I built a chuppah in our classroom as part of our Lag B'Omer festivities. Any couple who wanted to could come, put on a kippah, get wrapped in a tallit (to symbolize the need for teamwork), stand under the chuppah (to symbolize their future home) and have me marry them. Any couple could marry as long as both wanted to. We had boy-girl, boy-boy and girl-girl combos. Instead of a kiss I asked the couple to lovingly hug as the final gesture. Couple after couple came up and the warmth in their unions and in their hugs was astounding. I found myself desiring that life always be just this sweet.
After nightfall on Thursday:
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 thirty-four days which is four weeks and six days of the Omer.
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