Tonight, Thursday night, April 28, 2011, we count ten days, which is one week and three days of the Omer.
For detailed instructions on how to count the Omer, blessing text, omer calendar, and more information, please click here.
OMER MEDITATION
A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement
Day Three of Week 2: Tiferet of Gevurah
Not just love but compassion has to drive discipline. Love comes from recognizing one's merits and positive qualities (discipline channels and directs those strengths and weeds out the negative). Compassion is unconditional love. It is love just for the sake of love, not considering the others position. Tiferet is a result of total selflessness in the eyes of G-d. You love for no reason; you love because you are a reflection of G-d.
Does my discipline have this element of compassion?
Exercise for the day: Be compassionate to someone you have reproached.
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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