04/28/2025
Kabbalah of the Month
By Melinda Ribner
Chodesh Tov. Chodesh Tov! We welcome the new month of Iyar on Monday, April 28th and April 29th at the time of the new moon. May this be a month of healing and blessing for me, for you, all of Israel and the entire world!
The Hebrew letters for the name of the month Iyar spell out the initials of the verse," Ani Yud Yud Rofecha"- "I am God your healer." What a powerful mantra to meditate upon. Try it. Take a moment, even right now, be with your breath as you take a few slow and deep breaths. Repeat this mantra to yourself with each breath. Know this as the truth. God is your healer. God is sustaining, blessing and healing you right now!
All healing comes from our God connection. It is as simple as that. In order to heal, to be purified, we must go beyond our habitual ways of thinking, feeling and living. We must listen deeply to ourselves in the most honoring, respectful and also vulnerable ways. Prayer and meditation will help us more easily let go of our over-identification with our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations and open to a more sublime experience of ourselves, our beautiful and holy soul. And, we must also do something new and wonderful for ourselves. How can we expect to facilitate healing and growth in our lives if we keep doing the same things we always do over and over? The time of the new moon is an optimal time to receive guidance in how we can experience and express ourselves in new and more authentic ways.
We do this kind of healing work throughout the year but we intensify this inner work during the month of Iyar. Many Jews participate in a spiritual practice of Counting the Omer that encompasses the entire month of Iyar as recorded in the Bible. " You shall count seven perfect Sabbaths from the day following the Passover holiday when you brought the Omer as a wave offering until the day after the seventh Sabbath, when there will be fifty days." Lev. 23:15-16) This is a unique spiritual practice for this month.
Purification is a major theme reflected in the Torah portions for this month of Iyar. The Torah instructs us during this month that it is in the sanctification of the basic physical things of life that we experience holiness and become holy people. It is not enough to simply meditate to be holy. Through the mundane world and its myriad of physical activities like food, s*x, love, money and business we also have an opportunity to experience God. In this way we purify ourselves and the world. Unifying the spiritual and physical aspects of life itself with love allows us to glimpse the Oneness of God.
General Guidelines and Goals for the Month as expounded upon in Living in the Divine Flow.
Develop a plan for healing this Month.
Make Inner peace Your priority
Deepen your connection to God
Heal pain in Relationships
Be willing to discover and accept the truth
Count the Omer, Meditate on the sephirot and their impact in your life
Be willing to liberate yourself from habitual and limiting emotional patterns.
May this month be one of healing, a month of becoming more whole, more open, vital and alive. Blessings, MMM ( Miriam Mindy Melinda)
FOR GREATER WISDOM AND SUPPORT IN ACTUALIZING THE SPIRITUAL OPPORTUNITY OF THIS MONTH. After reading the first introductory chapters, READ THE IYAR CHAPTER IN MY NEWEST BOOK LIVING IN THE DIVINE FLOW.
Love and blessings, Miriam Shulamit (Melinda Mindy Ribner)
