DAY 17   TIFERET OF TIFERET: Compassion in Compassion

After sunset, Today is Day 17th of the Omer. new 2 Iyar, 5781.

By Simon Jacobson

DAY 17   TIFERET OF TIFERET: Compassion in Compassion

Tuesday evening, April 13, we count seventeen days of the Omer. True compassion is limitless. It is not an extension of your needs and defined by your limited perspective. Compassion for another is achieved by having a selfless attitude, rising above yourself and placing yourself in the other person’s situation and experience.  Am I prepared and able to do that? If not, why? Do I express and actualize the compassion and empathy in my heart? What blocks me from expressing it? Is my compassion compassionate or self-serving? Is it compassion that comes out of guilt rather than genuine empathy? How does that affect and distort my compassion? Test yourself by seeing if you express compassion even when you don’t feel guilty.

Exercise for the day:  Express your compassion in a focused and constructive manner by addressing someone’s specific needs.

Yeshua haMashiyach is The Master of Shabbat

Exodus 23:4-5, Deuteronomy 22:4, Matthew 12:11 and Luke 14:15

Show real action: Be compassion toward rescue donkeys. Be kind loyal fully to animals.

Psalms 119:129-136 TLV

PE פ

¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful.
Therefore my soul obeys them.
¹³⁰ The unfolding of Your words gives light,
giving understanding to the simple.
¹³¹ I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for Your mitzvot.
¹³² Turn to me and be gracious to me,
as is fitting to those who love Your Name.
¹³³ Direct my footsteps in Your word,
and let no iniquity get mastery over me.
¹³⁴ Redeem me from human oppression,
and I will keep Your precepts.
¹³⁵ Make Your face shine on Your servant,
and teach me Your decrees.
¹³⁶ Streams of water run down from my eyes,
because they do not observe Your Torah.

In Hebrew pe (peh/pey/pei) means mouth. Please click two links peh and the letter pey

Matthew 4:3-5 CJB

³ The Tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order these stones to become bread.” ⁴ But he answered, “The Tanakh says,

‘Man does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes from the mouth of Adonai’”

⁵ Then the Adversary took him to the holy city and set him on the highest point of the Temple.

Matthew 4:4 refers Deuteronomy 8:3 CJB

³ He humbled you, allowing you to become hungry, and then fed you with man, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that a person does not live on food alone but on everything that comes from the mouth of Adonai.