DAY 48   YESOD OF MALCHUT: Humility in Nobility

Tonight at sunset, Lecha Dodi, Come my Beloved. O Bride, Shabbat Queen, now come!

May YHWH bless you and your household. Shabbat Shalom

Shabbat Reading: Parashah 34 Bamidbar (במדבר | In the wilderness)

Torah: Numbers 1:1-4:20

Haftarah: Hosea 2:1-22

B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B’midbar: Luke 2:1–7; 1 Corinthians 12:12–31


After sunset, Today is Day 48 of the Omer. new 4 Sivan, 5781.

By Simon Jacobson

DAY 48   YESOD OF MALCHUT: Humility in Nobility
Friday evening, May 14, we count forty-eight days of the Omer.

Examine the bonding aspect of your sovereignty. Healthy independence should not prevent you from bonding with another person. On the contrary: self-confidence allows you to respect and trust another’s sovereignty and ultimately bond with him. That bond will strengthen your own sovereignty, rather than sacrifice it. Does my sovereignty prevent me from bonding? Could that be because of deeper insecurities of which I am unaware? Do I recognize the fact that a fear of bonding reflects a lack of self-confidence in my own sovereignty? 
Exercise for the day:  Actualize your sovereignty by intensifying your bond with a close one.


Justice of the Kingdom

Psalm 146 TLV

1 Halleluyah! Praise Adonai, O my soul!
2 I will praise Adonai all my life.
I will praise my God yet again.
3 Do not put your trust in princes—
in man, in whom there is no salvation.
4 His breath departs,
he returns to his dust.
In that very day his plans perish.
5 Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in Adonai his God,
6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps truth forever,
7 who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives bread to the hungry.
Adonai sets the prisoners free.
8 Adonai opens the eyes of the blind.[a]
Adonai raises up those who are bowed down.
Adonai loves the righteous.
9 Adonai protects outsiders,
upholds the fatherless and the widow,
but thwarts the way of the wicked.
10 Adonai will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
Halleluyah!

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 146:8 cf. Matt. 9:27-30.