DAY 29   CHESED OF HOD: Lovingkindness in Humility


After sunset, Today is Day 29th of the Omer. new 14th Iyar, 5781.

By Simon Jacobson

DAY 29   CHESED OF HOD: Lovingkindness in Humility
Sunday evening, April 25, we count twenty nine days of the Omer.

Examine the love in your humility. Healthy humility is not demoralizing; it brings love and joy, not fear. Humility that lacks love has to be reexamined for its authenticity. Sometimes humility can be confused with low self-esteem, which would cause it to be unloving. Humility brings love because it gives you the ability to rise above yourself and love another. Does my humility cause me to be more loving and giving? More expansive? Or does it inhibit and constrain me? Am I humble and happy or humble and miserable?
Exercise for the day:  Before praying with humility and acknowledgment of G-d, give some charity. It will enhance your prayers.


The Shiviti displays the Divine Name of God: YHWH (the Tetragrammaton)

Let All Peoples Praise You

Psalm 67 TLV

1 For the music director, with stringed instruments, a psalm, a song.
2 May God be gracious to us and bless us.
May He cause His face to shine upon us—Selah
3 so that Your way may be known on earth,
and Your salvation among all nations.
4 Let the peoples praise You, O God.
Let all the peoples praise You.
5 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for You will judge the peoples fairly,
and guide the nations on the earth. Selah
6 Let the peoples praise You, O God.
Let all the peoples praise You.
7 The earth has yielded its harvest—
God, our God will bless us.
8 God will bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.

שִׁוִּ֬יתִי יְהוָ֣ה לְנֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִ֑יד

Shiviti Yod Hey Vav Hey L’negdi Tamid

“I place  יהוה  Y H V H before me always.”   (Psalms 16:8). The Hebrew word shiviti is usually translated as “I set,”. “I have set YHVH before me at all times. Psalm 67 written in the shape of the menorah, a form called Shiviti.