Meta-Siddur Subscription Service: Notes on Packet 4.3 (12/14/94)

Meta-Siddur Subscription Service Here are a few notes on the current (4.3) Meta-Subscription Pack.et. 12/14/94 These teachings are a combination of direct interpretations of Hassidic sources, my translations of these interpretations, and hunches often based on nothing more than my intuition. From time to time, it may seem that these are shorthand notes that may be almost understandable but would need more information to fill out and make these ideas more useful and practical. I may sometimes be able to do this but often, these ideas represent the leading edge of my thinking. I may not be able to provide more than what is here shown. If you wish more information on any item, you can always ask, and I can either supply it, research and/or co-create it, or let you know that I don't yet know any more. I am enclosing a sample of another subscription that I offer called Meta-Parshiot. Enjoy! If you like (and have not already done so), I invite you to subscribe! (Meta-Parshiot is not included as part of the Meta-Siddur Subscription.) Page 48. 7 Repetition for the sake of tranceinduction is an art. Repetition for the sake of trance-induction is an art. Repetition ... I have been on the lookout for ways to make the evening prayer blessing the bringer-on of evenings, and their darknesses, the Ma' ariv Aravim prayer more vibrant. This statement of Alan Watts is an effective mantra for me, freeing me from too-heavy concretized sky-Gods and opening me up to the humility of my ignorance. Page 86.6 I think I'd ask for your commentary on my commentaries here. There are three that I can see: 1) The new interpretation of the six-word blessing preamble (Barukh atah ... ) in terms of awareness and increasing connection; 2) a somewhat new translation of Khay Ha-olam; 3) and a wild interpretation of Zokef K'fufim as straightening out crooked synapses. It may not be science but it feels right to my awakening process. Yours? Pages 122.2 The Rules according to the Segals. Geniuses. Rabbis. Physical Culturalists. Page 106.2 I found this in a Kabbalah interpretation of the Siddur called Yedid Nefesh. It serves my purpose of exposing underlying infrastructure of the Tefillot. Yes, it is wild and way far off the text as usually understood, but that didn't faze me. the images that it evokes seem . . . like a combination hero's journey and an amusement park ride as developed by Steven Spielberg and the Maharal of Prague and Rabbi Nekhunya ben Hakaneh. Page 106.3-.4-.5 Here, I developed the ideas from the previous page 106.2 through my research and a little creativity based on a few hunches. I have always been partial to the idea of stages of spirituality that are successive and sequentially opening, psychologically clear, and spiritually challenging. Page 106.6 L'Ayl Barukh is found right before the Ahavat Olam in daily prayers. I had fun trying to give single adjectives for the doubled adjectival phrases. It has a rushing feel to it. For more on the opal see The Dream Assembly, chapter entitled, The Secret of the Menorah. Page 150.93 According to Hasidut, every Holyday of the year exerts its influence on all the subsequent days of the year. Therefore, any holy day could be drawn as a similar tree. Yet the tree of Tu B' Shevat is special in its branching. Look. The first holidays to follow are also on the full moon, creating a strong trunk. Then the branching starts and grows wider and wider. Lag B'Omer on the eighteenth, three days after full moon. Shavuot on the sixth, nine days before full moon. Eventually, wider, to Rosh Hashanah on the New Moon and Simkhat Torah on the twentythird, nine days after full moon. Finally, the ultimate spread - Hanukah, the last Holyday before Tu B' Shevat - Starting on the twenty fifth, and continuing through the new moon cycle. It looks just like a tree. If you drew such a tree, for example, with Rosh Hashanah as the starting point, your first few lines would stretch off to the right, then spread with Hanukah, then center with Tu B'Shevat, Purim, Passover, then spread ... do you get my drift? Oh well. I think it looks like a tree, anyway. Call me obstinate. If you can, please show your Meta-Subscription and Meta-Parshah around to those who might be interested! ZaiGezunt! Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank 208~bia Av., Kensi~·cA