Sunlight

Photo courtesy of SDAC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Today is the fifteenth day, which is two weeks and one day, of the Omer. The essence of the day is Chesed of Tiferet. Tiferet, the blending of Chesed and Gevurah, is the middle ground between kindness and harshness. In Zoharic kabbalah Tiferet is known as Truth,the Great Light. It represents the male counterpart to the feminine Malkhut. It is the sun to Malkhut’s moon. Tiferet is the culmination of the emotional/mental qualities of Chesed and Gevurah. These two sides have each had their influence on any decision we have made regarding any action or speech we are about to perform, the combination of their influences is Tiferet. In Chesed of Tiferet that combination has favored kindness. Our resulting actions will show less of the analytics of judgment and more of the openness of kindness.