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HA-YOM YOM
Poems inspired by the practice
of counting the Omer
The poems in this book embody the intersection of spiritual practice and creative process. They arose from simple day-by-day awareness, cultivated over a 49-day period through the ages-old practice of counting the "Omer." In ancient times, an Omer of barley, a sheaf, was brought to the Jerusalem Temple on the second day of the spring Passover festival. The High Priest was to wave the sheaf as an offering, and to count each of the 49 days between the Passover festival and the next pilgrimage festival, Shavuot, thus bringing prayerful intention to the crucial days of the growth of the summer wheat crop. Retooled by the rabbinic sages some thousand years later as a historic journey from freedom to revelation and by the 16th century kabbalists, in the day, as a means of personal spiritual refinement, this potent counting practice enjoins us to wake up, moment by moment, to the depth and value of our own unique lives, offering ourselves to the path of liberation through wisdom. These poems and the accompanying guide for practice are also an offering, an expression of one practitioner's journey on that path and an invitation to deepen your own creative engagement with the Spirit that radiates through all of Life.
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HA-YOM YOM
Poems inspired by the practice
of counting the Omer
The poems in this book embody the intersection of spiritual practice and creative process. They arose from simple day-by-day awareness, cultivated over a 49-day period through the ages-old practice of counting the "Omer." In ancient times, an Omer of barley, a sheaf, was brought to the Jerusalem Temple on the second day of the spring Passover festival. The High Priest was to wave the sheaf as an offering, and to count each of the 49 days between the Passover festival and the next pilgrimage festival, Shavuot, thus bringing prayerful intention to the crucial days of the growth of the summer wheat crop. Retooled by the rabbinic sages some thousand years later as a historic journey from freedom to revelation and by the 16th century kabbalists, in the day, as a means of personal spiritual refinement, this potent counting practice enjoins us to wake up, moment by moment, to the depth and value of our own unique lives, offering ourselves to the path of liberation through wisdom. These poems and the accompanying guide for practice are also an offering, an expression of one practitioner's journey on that path and an invitation to deepen your own creative engagement with the Spirit that radiates through all of Life.
Available at amazon. com and morebooks.de