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Index
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Abraham, tent open on four sides, 35, 48, 217
abuse, 64, 415
Acceptance Prayer, 160–61
addiction, 24, 47–48, 52, 82, 136, 154–55, 197, 203. See also twelve-step process
addithana, 193
Adonai, 499
“adorning the bride,” 482
afterlife, 410
Akiva, Rabbi, 402
alcoholism, 86
Amalek, 446–47
amends, making, 299, 301
Amidah, 155n
Angels in America, 473–74
anicca, 116
anxiety, and Counting the Omer, 14
apprentice, and master, 80–81
Ark of the Covenant, 353–54
Armstrong, Neil, 21
arousal, 349
artisan, 399–401
Ashkenazi, Rabbi Yosef ben Shalom, 418
Assiyah, defined, 28–29
attention, 59
Atzilut, defined, 27–28
author. See Horn, Mark (author)
Awe, 294, 295. See also Gevurah
Azriel of Girona, Rabbi, 9, 30
Baal Shem Tov, 106–7, 150, 290, 356, 463, 483
Balance, 19–20, 24, 61, 66–67, 119–20, 157–58, 178
Beauty, 20, 112–13, 116, 160. See also Tiferet
Being There, 413
belief, 8, 53, 69, 99, 190–91, 196, 275, 295–96
Best Little Boy in the World syndrome, 300–301
betrayal, 143–44, 301, 365, 387–88
Bezalel, 399–401
Bhagavad Gita, 51
Binah, 18
bittul, 324
Blake, William, 450
blessing, 281
nontraditional version, 43
Bohm, David, 27
Bonding, 23–24, 260, 345. See also Yesod
Boundaries, 109, 125–26, 232–34, 358–59
B’riah, defined, 28–29
B’riatic Defense, 115
“Bring out your dead!,” 455
Brooks, Mel, 86
Buber, Martin, 327–28
Buddha, 37, 297
Buddhism, xii–xiii, 37, 89
and belief, 296
Judaism and, 462–63
bullying, 438–39
Cabala tradition, 10, 62, 207. See also Kabbalah
Caesar, Julius, 151–52
Caleb, 278
cancer, story of author’s mother, 451–53
chakras, 88
Chamberlain, Neville, 439
charity, 66–67, 164–65
principles of, 164–65
Charleston church incident, 312–13
chaver, 374
cheating, 387–88
cherubim, 413–14
Chesed
defined, 18–19, 49
Loving-kindness and, 18–19
negative side, 19
week of Counting the Omer, 46–99
Chesed of Chesed, 46–53
Chesed of Gevurah, 101–8
Chesed of Hod, 283–93
Chesed of Malchut, 426–33
Chesed of Netzach, 216–26
Chesed of Tiferet, 156–65 Chesed of Yesod, 346–58
chet, 408
childhood, 64, 67, 95, 160, 170, 190, 194–95, 216, 275, 409–10
children, gifted, 445
Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, 331
Chokhmah, defined, 18
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 112
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 140
commandments, observation of, 303, 366
Commitment, 248–49, 371–72, 381–82
communities, and LGBTQ, 367–68
companion, in study, 44, 374, 380
Compassion, 117–19, 187, 237. See also Tiferet
limits of, 206–7
Tiferet and, 20–21
Compassion in Action, 207, 209–10
Compassion in Action (Ram Dass), 207
complaint, 274
Connection, 138, 139. See also Yesod
Yesod and, 23–25
Conscious Community (Shapira), 162
Conscious Loving (Hendricks), 370
Counting the Omer. See also under individual topics
biblical commandment and, 3–4
different ways to perform, 38–40
group practice, 43–45
as living tradition, 1–2
purpose/goal of, 1, 302
requires counting days and weeks, 38
results from, 2
timing of, 8–9
craftsman, 320–21
Creating, 182
Creativity, 223–24, 231
crisis, spiritual, 297<
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Crown, 17
Crucifixion, 62
cup, shape of, 103
Cups, 29, 42
daily practice, how to follow the, 38–45
Dalai Lama, 174–75
Daniel 12:3, 481
Danyal, 419–21
Day of Atonement, 343
Days (of Counting of the Omer). See listing in Table of Contents, pages xv-ix
Days of Awe, 294–95 death, 50, 96, 410, 419–21
Decker, Ronald, 33–34, 143–44, 317
Defender, 395–97, 398
defensiveness, 69–70, 261–63, 431
DeMille, Agnes, 185
depression, 87–88
de Ropp, Robert, 180 Desire, 379–80, 402–3
Deuteronomy 25:17, 446
Dickinson, Emily, 197
Dignity, 98
Diogenes, 377
Discipline, 54, 56, 112–13, 227–28
discriminating intelligence, 96, 105, 171–72, 288–90. See also Swords
divination, 255–56
Divine Presence, visibility of, 457–58
“Don’t Stop,” 359
DovBer, Rabbi Sholom, 132
Do What You Love, 224–25
Drama of the Gifted Child (Miller), 445
dreams, 253–55
Dynamic Balance, 61, 156–59
Eastertide, 7
Eckford, Elizabeth, 271–72
Edison, Thomas, 314–15, 316–17
eighteen (number), 178
Eight of Cups, 76–77, 131–32, 190–91, 252–56, 285–86, 296–97, 305–6, 315–17, 323–26, 330–31, 338–41, 395–97, 462–63
Eight of Pentacles, 80–81, 194–95, 258–60, 291–93, 300–301, 310–12, 319–21, 323–26, 333–35, 342–44, 399–402, 466–69
Eight of Swords, 77–78, 133–34, 192–93, 256–57, 288–90, 298–99, 307–9, 317–19, 323–26, 331–33, 341–42, 397–98, 464–66
Eight of Wands, 75, 129–31, 188–89, 251–52, 284–85, 295–96, 303–5, 314–15, 323–26, 328–29, 336–38, 392–94, 460–61
Ein Sof, 17, 499
Eli, 279
Elijah, 130
Eliot, T. S., 425
Emotional Abandonment Two-Step, 395–98
emotions, 29, 95, 99, 182, 186, 202–3, 396–97
feeling painful, 64, 67, 89, 91
Endurance, 121–22, 181–82, 227–28, 236, 312–13. See also Netzach
Netzach and, 215–16
two kinds, 246
enemies, 71
Enemy of the People, An (Ibsen), 122
Enough Is as Good as a Feast, 285–86
enslavement, 52–53, 85, 123, 233–34, 381–82
Epstein, Mark, 402
Erev Shavuot, 302
Esoteric Tarot, The (Decker), 317
ethical will, 456–57
Etteila, 31–32, 34, 81
Exodus, 3:5, 479
Ezray, Rabbi Nat, 306
farmer, 225, 244, 320–21
fasting story, 227–28
father
author’s father, 234–35
role as, 194–95
fearless moral inventory, 459
feathers story, 144
femininity, 220–21, 332, 354, 358
Fire Island, 294
Five of Cups, 57–58, 103–4, 108, 111, 114–16, 123, 131–32, 141, 150–51, 169, 230–32, 296–97, 362–64, 436–37
Five of Pentacles, 60, 106–7, 112, 119–20, 126, 135–37, 145, 152–55, 172–73, 234–36, 300–301, 366–69, 440–42
Five of Swords, 58–59, 104–5, 108, 111–12, 117, 124–25, 133–34, 142–44, 151, 171–72, 232–34, 298–99, 364–66, 438–39
Five of Wands, 55, 102–3, 108, 111, 113–14, 121–22, 129–31, 139, 148, 167–68, 228–30, 295–96, 360–62, 435–36
flood, 94
Flow, 347–49, 349–52, 429–30
Flow (Csikszentmihalyi), 291
flower arranging, 110–11
Forbidden Planet, The, 289
Forster, E. M., 25, 475
Forty, in Jewish tradition, 391
forty-nine days, 1–5, 15, 37
Foundation. See also Yesod
Yesod and, 23–25, 345–46
Four of Cups, 47–53, 48–49, 57, 76, 85–86, 94–95, 103–4, 159–60, 219–21, 285–86, 349–52, 429–30
Four of Pentacles, 47–53, 52–53, 59–60, 72–73, 80–81, 89–91, 97–99, 106–7, 163–64, 224–26, 291–93, 355–58, 432–33
Four of Swords, 47–53, 49–52, 58, 77–78, 87–89, 95–96, 104 5, 161, 163, 221–24, 288–90, 353–54, 430–32
Four of Wands, 35, 47–53, 48, 69–70, 75, 83–84, 93, 102, 157, 217–18, 284–85, 347–49, 427–28
four worlds, 26–31
Four Yorkshiremen, 319
Frankl, Viktor E., 137
ganbare, 215
Gandhi, Mahatma, 312–13
garden, 268–70, 333
Gates of Light, 150, 153–55, 343–44, 366, 368, 469, 481–82
Sephirot and Divine Light, 12–15
Gates of Light, The (Gikatilla), 33, 153, 279, 320
gay issues, xi. See also LGBTQ issues Best Little Boy in the World syndrome, 300–301
gay marriage, 348
gay relationships, 220–21, 332–33, 363–64, 372–73
transcending defensiveness, 69–70
Gébelin, Court de, 31–32
Gedulah, 19
Gevurah, 19–20, 54
negative side, 20
week of Counting the Omer, 100–155
Gevurah of Chesed, 54–61
Gevurah of Gevurah, 108–12
Gevurah of Hod, 294–301
Gevurah of Malchut, 433–42
Gevurah of Netzach, 227–36
Gevurah of Tiferet, 166–74
Gevurah of Yesod, 358–69
Gikatilla, Joseph, 33–34, 417–18
Ginzberg, Louis, 413
Glass Castle, The (Walls), 454
Glory. See also Hod
Hod and, 22–23
glow, 322–23
God. See also Ein Sof
beliefs about, 190–91
forsaken by, 473–75
God language, 499–501
voice of, 12
Goenka, S. N., 58
gold, 73
Gold, Rabbi Shefa, 483
Golden Dawn, 32–33
Gospel of Thomas, 163
gossip, 144
Gratitude, 283
Green, Rabbi Arthur, 175
grief, 202–3
HaKana, Rabbi Nechunya Ben, 257
halaka, 127
happiness, 146, 180
and earnings, 286–87
Harmony, 156, 178. See also Tiferet
Japanese concept of, 377–78
heart, open, 67, 70, 141, 164
Hendricks, Gay and Kathlyn, 77, 141, 370
Henry V (Shakespeare), 188–89
hevruta, defined, 44
Hidden Saints, 346
hillula, 322
Hirohito, Emperor, 215
Hitler, Adolf, 439
hitting bottom, 203, 408
Hod
defined, 22–23
as Glory or Splendor, 22–23, 74, 282
as Gratitude, 283
negative side, 23
Surrender and, 74
week of Counting the Omer, 282–344
hoda’ah, 282
Hod of Chesed, 74–82
Hod of Gevurah, 128–38
Hod of Hod, 321–26
Hod of Malchut, 459–69
Hod of Netzach, 249–60
Hod of Tiferet, 187–96
Hod of Yesod, 391–402
holiness of creation, 90
Holocaust, 134, 178–79
holy ground, 479–80
Holy Spirit, 6–7, 255
homeless people, 106–7, 145–46
Horn, Mark (author)
author’s father, 234–35
author’s mother (cancer account), 451–53
his introduction to tarot, Counting the Omer, etc., xi–xiv
leaving and returning to Judaism, xi–xiv
Hosea, 365 2:21-22, 484–85
Humility, 76–77, 78–79, 188–89, 284–85, 287, 293, 295, 323–26. See also Hod
Compassion in, 310–11
creates space, 333–34
Endurance in, 312–13
extremes of, 256–57
false, 309
and knowledge, 391–92
Leadership and, 304–5
perceived as weakness, 329
Strength in, 314–15
Hungry Ghost, 261
I-It Relationship, 327, 330
India visit, 309
Inside Out, 168
interpretation, and revelation, 482–83
Intimate Relationship, 370. See also Relationship
Isaac the Blind, Rabbi, 9, 469
Isaiah, 58:12, 469
isolation, 331–33
Israelites, ancient, 242. See also Moses
Bezalel story, 399–401
breaking the covenant, 365–66
Commitment to enslavement, 381–82
and complaint, 272–73
and destruction of Temple, 464–65
enslavement of, 233–34
fitness to enter Promised land, 277–78
freedom from Egypt, 47
and I-Thou, 328
Marriage to the Deity, 348
and process of Counting the Omer, 1
and Promised Land scouts, 267
worshipping golden calf, 391
Itaruta Diletata, 349
I-Thou Relationship, 327–29
Jacob, vision of, 266–67
Japan
Endurance in, 215–16
Harmony in, 377–78
Jeremiah, 461
Jerusalem, 464
Jesus, 248, 386
Jewish liturgical calendar, 294–95
Jonah, 393, 460–61
Joseph, 24, 253, 355–57
Joshua, 278
joy, 437
Judaism. See also under individual topics
Buddhism and, 462–63
history of, 161–62
Judgment, 105, 166
Justice, 125
Kabbalah
defined, 9
goal of, 12
goal of Kabbalistic work, 280
origins of, 3–5
tarot and, 10–11, 31–37
and Western occultism, 10–11
Kaddish, 500
kanji, 128
Kantrowitz, Rabbi Min, 282
Kaplan, Aryeh, 500
karōshi, 212
kavanath, 38
Keats, John, 334
“Keep Your Eyes on the Prize,” 247–48
Keter, 17, 432
key words, 40–42, 128–29
kineahora, 93
