Tonight, Saturday night, April 30, 2011, we count twelve days, which is one week and five days of the Omer.
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OMER MEDITATION
A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement
Day Five of Week 2: Hod of Gevurah
The results of discipline and might without humility are obvious. The greatest catastrophes have occurred as a result of people sitting in arrogant judgement of others. Am I arrogant in the name of justice (what I consider as just)? Do I ever think that I sit on a higher pedestal and bestow judgement on my subjects below? What about my children? Students?
A judge has to be the most humble of creatures, recognizing that he sits in judgement not by his own merit but only because G-d gave the right to judge His children.
Exercise for the day: Don't judge anyone unless you are doing so selflessly with no personal bias.
From A Spiritual Guide to the Omer by Simon Jacobson Republished with the permission of MeaningfulLife.com. If you wish to republish this article in a periodical, book, or website, please email permissions@meaningfullife.com
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