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This Is the Day,
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 as an offering on the second day of the Passover festival. The High Priest was to wave the sheaf and to count each of the 49 days from Passover to the next pilgrimage festival, Shavu'ot, bringing a prayerful intention to the crucial seven-week gestation and growth period of the summer wheat crop. Reframed a thousand years later by the rabbinic sages as a historic journey from freedom to revelation and, again, six hundred years after that by the kabbalists as a tool for personal spiritual refinement, this potent practice enjoins us to wake up, moment by moment, to the depth and value of our own unique lives and to offer ourselves fully 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 your life and through all Life.
Available now on amazon.com and at booksellers everywhere
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 as an offering on the second day of the Passover festival. The High Priest was to wave the sheaf and to count each of the 49 days from Passover to the next pilgrimage festival, Shavu'ot, bringing a prayerful intention to the crucial seven-week gestation and growth period of the summer wheat crop. Reframed a thousand years later by the rabbinic sages as a historic journey from freedom to revelation and, again, six hundred years after that by the kabbalists as a tool for personal spiritual refinement, this potent practice enjoins us to wake up, moment by moment, to the depth and value of our own unique lives and to offer ourselves fully 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 your life and through all Life.
Available now on amazon.com and at booksellers everywhere