Holding Monty the ball python.
Week 6-/Yesod (FOUNDATION)-Day 7/Malchut (KINGDOM)
"The Buddha said that if in a certain moment of place you adopt something as the absolute truth; and you attach to that, then you will no longer have any chance to reach the truth. Even when the truth comes and knocks on your door, and asks you to open the door, you won't recognize it. So you must not be too attached to dogma-to what you believe, and to what you perceive."
-Thich Nhat Hanh-
A parent brought their ball python snake to school to visit the classrooms interested. Sitting on a low chair he held the Monty the snake, talked about wild animals and how we have to treat them with respect and care. Then he invited children to come and touch and or hold Monty. They were all fascinated with him but their reactions to this invitation varied from from fear to desire; to not touching at all to totally embracing the snake. I did not have knowledge of the visit ahead of time so I had could not prepare them. I wondered what they would have done given a second chance. Ah but that is how life sometimes is.
After nightfall on Friday:
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-two days which is six weeks of the Omer.
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