22 Skill-Spaces of Davvenen

22 Skill-Spaces of Davvenen Perhaps every separate Tefillah (prayer) piece represents a different ability we may acquire to become better Davveners. The following is a preliminary stab at a list of skills suggested by the Teti/lot. Some of the following are like the Jeopardy game - the answers are provided to questions we haven't articulated yet. Let's begin. In this way, we stretch our perception of the skill-spaces of Davvenen. PRAYER ELOHAI NESHAMA SKILL Watching all breathing: our body's; our soul's; and the Divine's, breathing through us. MA TOVU Relating to the Divine Power in the present moment, in this very environment. MORNING HOD U Getting in touch with and expressing the gratitude beneath our grasping neediness; unquenchable desire; free-flowing anxiety. BAR UK H SHEH-AMAR Energetically expressing our relationship to existence beyond form. HALLELUYAH Joyously expressing our personal thanks for the vastness of variety of forms. YISHTABAKH Gathering the peaks of our experience together to use as a booster charge to get the superfluous energy needed to jump to another consciousness. HALF KADD.ISH Developing the skill to stretch consciously into a more expansive worldview. BARE KHU Melding our energies together with those around us into a collective rhythm of total focus and compassionate heart opening. 10 YOTZER OR Relating with skill to the most generic blessing there is - to the pre-substance from which we are made - our Mother - Light. 11 KADOSH Practicing a three step jump on the consciousness diving board. BRAKHOT KADOSH Relating with blessing to our multiple bodily competence; to our movement flow; to our heart spirit; to our community identification; and to our Divine mission. 12 AHAVAT OLAM Relating with love and skill to the power that continues to hold us and mold us in body and emotion - the power of Gravity / Attraction I Love. 13 SHEMA Practicing the dissolving of all boundaries; all separation and isolation. Reconstituting the mind in a pure form - around the integrity of being in all its derivatives - beyond the lie of obsession and the unquenchable thirst of desire. 15 Ml KAMOKHA Accepting the freedom that we are when we let go of all the catch-22's, the selflimiting rackets and the double-binds we embody and identifying with our lightbodies. 16 GA-AL YI SR A EL Stepping off the edge of the cliff of the familiar world into a world inhabited by the wisdom and power that is the true base of our identity. 17 AMIDA Staying there while speaking. 18 REPETITION OF THE Staying there while listening. AMIDA 19 0 PENING THE ARK Opening our hearts to hear the wisdom we have not yet heard. 20 TORAH Increasing the skill of paradoxical listening. Hearing the loving Mother dimension concurrent with the words of family, national history, human patriarchy, and law. Sealing the puzzles, appreciations, insights, and reinforcements we have experienced during this Davvenen session so that the light we have discovered remains available to us and does not become cheapened or lessened as we return to more mundane realities. Connecting with those crossing subsequent phases ofbeingness. cross-lifetime sense of mission. KADDISH Increasing our