Ibbur: Spiritual Pregnancy Worksheet

On Rosh Hashanah we end each ot the Shofar blowings of Musaf with the phrase, Hayom Harat O/am- Today is the world in pregnancy. R. Isaac Luria used metaphors of relationship, birth and family to describe the birth of our universe. Reb Zalman ~ ...:i suggests that we study these terms and use them in our language, liturgy, and thinking, to help our unfolding. Pregnancy lbbur NefeshSpiritual Pregnancy With what are you spiritually pregnant now? i.e., What spiritual experience are you close to birthing? What is the next step? How is your relationship spiritually pregnant? i.e., What spiritual experience are you capable of acheiving in your relationship? What can be done towards sustaining this experience? With what is your community spiritually pregnant? i.e., What is the quality of the spiritual experience that your local community is capable of? What contractions are necessary to birth this?