December 29, 2012 | 10:26 pm

Give My Heart

Posted by Emily Stern

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I do not want to control anything i give my heart to Gd

I want to know what happens when I lay my heart down.

he allows me to pick it up again saying wear this crown.

 

There are tears that have been shed when something says they are not yours

that they don't belong to you

what is loving for?

 

your Love is soft and being kept for you as the clouds.

Your love is like a rainbow.

colorful and I am wowed.

and your love is good for everyone

your love is only This . . .

 

 

 

it expands in your love. 

December 19, 2012 | 2:14 pm

When Mythology Comes True Part 2

Posted by Emily Stern

Clear as the waters and the crystals under them, atlantis is riding the waves. Lemuria rising in a spiraling circle with seashells and mermaids.

and the arc Noah built and the jewels that were planted with the sunken dreams of humanity's now are coming down

 

we've got more to see.

So, mythology comes through-- come clean with the truth. dressed in her majesty, her ancestry, this dynasty:

Hello, Sarah and Avraham.
Heloooo, Monkies and Dinosours.
Hello grandmothers' pictures
and archelogost's instruments with all that is ancient, hello, King David.

How are you doing? How nice is your crown!

Hello to the sacred vestments and ritual objects and superheroes.
To the true celebrities who are changing the earth.

Light.

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December 19, 2012 | 12:33 pm

When Mythology Comes True Part 1

Posted by Emily Stern

alive before our eyes.

Our lives . . .

our lives have been sprinkled with choices of realness or animals and stories we could see to believe.

 

So subtile each envelope, in which your prize is saying "this is the winner" the movie of the year.

This movement, this finger is of mythic importance, each moment a world in itself. our tiny skin is a planet. just this part of my belly, it is a planet.

 

Like what is important just came to the surface. We are conceived of and convinced,
as prayers always are, to be themselves.

 

 

To the stars and the sea,
what else can you be? I'm rooting for you. Enliven your dreams!

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December 11, 2012 | 4:40 pm

The Menorah of Shammai

Posted by Emily Stern

I am  feeling so strongly that the world, energetically speaking, is perfect,

 

 

 

 

Shabbat is perfect. Not for any other reason than it is. On Shabbat, all is perfect.

 

The hair * on the head, the leaving one's house. 

a circuit already closed in its never ending openness. 

 

 

 

 

If now we see many, soon we see One.

if i get to be the shamesh **, the one who gets to CHANGE things,

 

 

 

to light these unlit lights of the world menorah, to "gather the sparks" as they say. ***

 

 

 

I would hope that the Hanukkah lights would go down in number like Shammai**** suggests so that all the expelled lights*** of the world were just so simply One, known and all. *****

 

 

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* See Laws of Shabbos: Shearing, Travelling, Lighting

** http://www.mazornet.com/holidays/Chanukah/menorah-shamash.htm

*** See kabbalah gathering the sparks

****the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai — on the proper order in which to light the Hanukkah flames. Shammai opined that eight candles should be lit on the first night, seven on the second night, and so on down to one on the last night. Hillel argued in favor of starting with one candle and lighting an additional one every night, up to eight on the eighth night. Jewish law adopted the position of Hillel. (Taken from Wikipedia)

It is said that in the "Future" we will light as Shammai suggests... 

***** G-d is One http://www.jewfaq.org/g-d.htm (And as Rabbi Andrew Hahn points out Sh'ma yisroel, Hashem Echad- G-d is One- is the tenant of jewish mantras) 

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December 7, 2012 | 11:50 am

Joseph

Posted by Emily Stern

I would love to share this so much.

This is one way in which Joseph is is a man of Light.

Here he is working in a home of a very wealthy man. He sticks to his work, and is highly respected but really loved by his boss. His boss' attention seems to be totally focused on him.

"Shortly after"  Potiphera, is also clearly aware of Yoseph as a sexual being. She sees where her husband's attention is going. It is out of pure lust that she is going after Joseph, pure Love for her husband, Potipher.

This is a rediculous way to get attention, but there is a choice made here. And I belive in this choice, Joseph is a Tzaddik we are to only love for this playing along. Joseph represents the sfirot of Yesod (aligned with the genitals, reproductive organs)* for this reason. Not because he restrained himself from Potiphera's advances, but the choices he makes in support of the Love between Potipher and Potiphera.

The commentators point out, Obviously Joseph is stronger than Potiphera! Obviously he didn't have to give his coat, which she uses to prove his desire and nakedness for her. He gave her the coat making allowance for this role playing.
It is meaningful then too that Joseph leaves his coat.
Joseph leaves what is precious to him, what makes him better than his brothers. His father's game is righted here where he favored some of his sons over the others.  Joseph grew up with his mother Rachel being loved, and Leah wanting. Maybe as wanting as Potipher's wife. Here it is sad that Joseph sees his father's face in the eye of his mind. He rights this. Just because he comes from the privaledge of being loved . .

Anyone who has ever been loved, we know also how to move aside for a bigger Love Story for All of All of And All Of.
Yoseph takes off that coat! and as the game of this goes, he winds up in jail. It continues like any game.
The incident incites Potipher's jealousy. He wakes up! Potiphera's sexuality gets enforced and acknoledged by someone that he loves.

 

Such is the beauty of supporting each other in love of those whom we long to support. It is said that Potipher and Potiphera's daughter marries Joseph, "Asenath daughter of Potiphera Chief of On" now named, How's that for thanks and peace between Joseph and her parents? Certainly no animocity, even though they threw him in jail. Only Love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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*Sfirot see any beginner's book on Kabbalah

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