Teachingp. 16
Tefila Infrastructure
The order of prayer from Tikkun Khatzot to Anim Zemirot, each part glossed as a step through the worlds.
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Tefila Infrastructure TIKKUN else is the lower unity. The experience of all pervasiveness leads to the higher unity. All this leads to freedom which always follows the Sh'ma. Mi Kamokha Adonai?, KHATZOT Midnight Lament Tikkun is repair of Khatzot, the midnight hour, of the world and ourselves. KHESHBON HA.NEFESH Self accounting, trying to know what's affecting you in the present and in the past. Go'AL YISRAEL Interconnectedness leads to being free leads to a disengagement from ordinary consciousness. One can gain the feeling of . . . BARUKHATAH Morning Blessings We acknowledge our blessings, bless the morning, life, and warm up to move through the worlds. AMIDA Standing, rising before the universe which appears as a single, intelligent whole-as a person. Freed to talk to the universe, I am lifted up, to speak with the Shekhina. It's like being spoken through, a personal burning bush experience. Adonai Sifotai Tiftakh, Ufi Yagid Tihilatekha. FIRST KADDISH Kaddish eases us through transitions. There are four main dimensions, Arba Olamot, (If not two hundred and fifty times ten thousand olamot). This one takes us from Assiya to Yetzira HALLELUYA K'RIAT HATORA A joyous surge. Halleluya For all the olamot. Reading the Torah I wish to hear the spirit wisdom of the uni-verse' secrets whispering to me. From Atzilut down to B'ria and Yetzira, we begin the descent. HALF KADDISH , BAR'KHU , From Yetzira, to B'ria And there, in the collective of B'ria, we all come together and find KEDUSHA The experience of holiness colors the recollection of previous experiences, and so we repeat it three times, reframing our experience of the three worlds. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh. ANIM ZEMIROT Cutting away from the ladderclimbing with songs. Transition through the olamot by way of Mourner's Kaddish. From Atzilut down to Assiya. AHAVA We bless love, which is a natural thing to do after the depth experience of holiness. Bar'khu Ahava. Who taught you Ahava? It leads to Sh'ma Love makes two into one Ahavat Olom, Ahavah rabah Unconditional love leads to the unconditional. SH'MA Ekhad, interconnectedness. The flowing of one thing into everything