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king, with high walls, 106–7
Kingdom/Kingship. See also Malchut
Malchut and, 25–26, 92
King of the Hill, 180
Kliegman, Isabel Radow, 64, 415
klipot, 116
knight, 65, 288
Night Vigil and, 49–51, 58, 71, 96
Kook, Rav Abraham Isaac, 12
Krishna, 51
Kushner, Tony, 473–74
Lag B’Omer, 321–22
Lamed-Vavniks, 346
Lamentations, 1:1, 464
Leadership, 56, 273–74, 322, 337, 344
burdens of, 443–44
Humility and, 304–5
left-handed path, 402
León, Rabbi Moses de, 9–10, 322, 417
Levi, Eliphas, 32
Levi, Rabbi Joshua ben, 98 Leviticus, 26:12, 476
LGBTQ issues, 263. See also gay issues
communities that welcome, 367–68
movement, 218
ordaining gay and lesbian rabbis, 127, 140
Limits, 169–70
Lincoln, Abraham, 444
Little Rock Nine, 271–72
loneliness, 409–11
Loop of Awareness, 141–42
Love. See also Chesed; Relationship
Chesed and, 18–19
Endurance and, 219–21
Love wins, 217
Saul of Tarsus on, 216–17
Loving-kindness, 46–47, 89. See also Chesed
Chesed and, 18–19
Luria, Rabbi Isaac, 322
lying, 369–71
Ma’ashe Merkavah, 472
Madonna, 97–98
Magen David, 178
Maimonides, eight principles of charity, 164–65
Major Arcana, 31–33
Malchut, 90–91, 426
defined, 25–26
and Kingdom/Kingship, 25–26, 92
week of Counting the Omer, 425–80
Malchut of Chesed, 92–99
Malchut of Gevurah, 147–55
Malchut of Hod, 335–44
Malchut of Malchut, 478–80
Malchut of Netzach, 271–81
Malchut of Tiferet, 206–14
Malchut of Yesod, 413–24
manual labor, 291–92
maps, 30
Marshall Plan, 237
master, v. apprentice, 80–81
master key, 150
Mastery. See also Netzach Netzach and, 21–22
Mazel tov!, 270
meditation, 43, 88–89, 96, 124, 130–31, 192–93
and ethics, 429
instructions for daily, 486–87
Mellet, Comte de, 32
Messiah, 21, 98–99
Messianic Consciousness, 280
#MeToo, 407
Meyer, z”l, Rabbi Marshall T., 368
mezuzah, 154
midrash, 48
Minor Arcana, 33–36
Sephirot and, 13, 36
minyan, 44, 418
miracles, 276, 306
Mishnah, 4
Mitchell, Joni, 269
money, 422–23
mono no aware, 116, 174
Morris dancers, 167
Moses, 36, 55–56, 153, 267, 428
and Bezalel, 400–401
complaint of, 272–73
and Jethro, 149
killing of Egyptian overseer, 242, 254
radiant face of, 322
Nachman of Breslov, Rabbi, 278, 350–52
negative capability, 334
nes, 306
Netzach
defined, 21–22
endurance and, 68
Mastery and, 21–22
week of Counting the Omer, 215–81
Netzach of Gevurah, 121–28
Netzach of Hod, 312–21
Netzach of Malchut, 450–69
Netzach of Netzach, 246–49
Netzach of Tiferet, 178–86
Netzach of Yesod, 381–90
Netzack of Chesed, 68–73 New Age, 466
niggunim, 483–84
Night Vigil, 49, 58, 89, 96, 481
Nine of Cups, 85–87, 141–42, 199–200, 264–66, 330–31, 349–52, 362–64, 373–75, 384–86, 395–97, 403–13, 416–18, 471–72
Nine of Pentacles, 89–91, 145, 204–5, 268–71, 333–35, 355–58, 366–69, 378–80, 388–90, 399–402, 403–13, 422–24, 476–77
Nine of Swords, 87–89, 142–43, 201–4, 266–68, 331–33, 353–54, 364–66, 376–78, 386–88, 397–98, 403–13, 418–21, 473–75
Nine of Wands, 83–85, 139, 198–99, 261–63, 328–29, 347–49, 360–62, 371–73, 382–83, 392–94, 403–13, 414–16, 470–71
Obama, Barack, 443
Object Relations, 170
olamim, 26
Omer. See also Counting the Omer defined, 3–4
Omer calendar, 16
“Only connect!,” 25, 475
Open to Desire (Epstein), 402
Oresteia, The, 242–43
Organization, 111
orgasm, 75–76
Osho, 183
overwork, 212
Padmasambhava, 404
Panchatantra, 429
Papus, 34
Passover, 481
Pentacles, 29, 97
Pentecost, 481–85
Christian adoption of, 5–7
Jewish and Christian traditions of, 3
Perachya, Joshua ben, 374
Perfection, 113
Perseverance, 239–40. See also Endurance
Peshat, 243
Peter, 6–7
Phillips, Captain Richard, 63
Picasso, 223–24
pockets, two pockets teaching, 92
poor, the, 106–7, 145–46, 440–41
possibilities, endlessness of, 275–76
Potiphar, 355–56
potter/pottery, 80–81, 103–4
poverty consciousness, 173
practice, daily, 38–45
prayer, 486–87
at end of Torah service, 340–41
nontraditional version, 43
for peace, 292–93
service, 416–18
prayer vigil
Christian, 7
Tikkun prayer vigil, 8–9
prediction, 255–56
projections, 384–86
prophecy, 253–54, 460–61
Proverbs, 435
Psalms, 460
Psalm 23, 103
Psalm 67, 177
Psalms 94:18, 470
Psalms 119:62, 481
Pursuer, 395–97, 398
Qabalah, 10. See also Kabbalah
questions for reflection
on acceptance, 301
on Balance, 178, 449
on betrayal, 226, 301, 449
on body understanding, 433
on Boundaries, 173–74, 368–69
on bullying, 442
on charity, 442
on community, 357
on Compassion, 67–68, 186, 214, 245
on complaint, 281
on correcting others, 401–2
on criticism, 107–8
on defensiveness, 73, 259, 401, 433, 459
on Divine Connection, 271
on emotions, 99, 441
on Endurance, 186, 226, 249, 321
on finances, 99, 226
on goals, 321, 458–59
on honoring the planet, 344
on Humility, 259, 293, 311–12, 334–35, 344
on Intimacy, 91–92, 423–24
on isolation, 412
on larger causes, 195–96
on listening, 326
on loneliness, 449
on loss/victimization, 137–38
on Love, 53–54, 60–61, 73, 82, 107–8, 226
on mercy, 477
on Relationships, 271, 281, 335, 357–58, 368–69, 380, 390, 401, 411–12
on Responsibility, 155
on seeing “celestial light,” 459
on sexuality, 412
on sharing, 260
on spiritual paths, 468–69, 477
on standing up for yourself, 301
on staying open, 146–47
on Strength, 127–28
on Structure, 112, 120
on study, 380, 477
on taking care of yourself, 344
on therapy, 468
on victimhood, 321
reviewing the Counting the Omer process, 480
Rachamim, 161
racial discrimination, 307–9, 312–13
Radical Judaism (Green), 175
rainbow, 94–95, 275, 472, 479
Ram Dass, 207
Ramer, Andrew, 482
rape, 359
rape culture, 360–62
rat race, 286
reading tarot cards, 189, 255–56
reciprocity, 378–79
refugees, 117–19
Relationship, 87, 90–91, 382–83, 398–401. See also Intimate Relationship; sexuality
and Endurance, 389–90
and Heart Connection, 202–3
ideal of, 270
I-Thou, 327–29
and personal goals, 264–66
religion, limitations of, 465–66
renunciation, 76
Responsibility, 94, 148–49
sharing, 208–9
Restraint, 109–10, 435–36
revelation, interpretation as, 482–83
rigidity, 109–10
Rispoli, Louis, death of, 419–21
Robin Hood, 241–42
roles, 372–73
Roman coin story, 147
Roof, Dylann, 312–13
Roosevelt, Teddy, 439
Rooster Prince story, 350–52
Ruach HaKodesh, 255
rules of engagement, 139–41
Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan, 324
Safat Emet, 302
Sagan, Carl, 294
Saul of Tarsus, 216–17
Schacther-Shalomi, z”l, Rabbi Zalman, 197
Schindler, Oskar, 299
secrets, 376
Sefer Yetzirah, 4, 500
self-improvement, 137
Sephirot, 16, 131–32
arrangement of, 12–13
and corresponding Minor Arcana, 13
defined, 12–14
forty-nine combinations of, 15–16
individually described, 16–26
Minor Arcana and, 36
origins of, 4–5, 12, 132
top three and lower seven, 15
Seven of Cups, 70, 123, 181–82, 219–21, 230–32, 239–40, 247–49, 252–56, 264–66, 274–76, 315–17, 384–86, 453–55
Seven of Pentacles, 72–73, 126–27, 184–85, 224–26, 234–36, 243–45, 247–49, 258–60, 268–71, 279–81, 319–21, 388–90, 457–59
Seven of Swords, 71, 124–25, 183–84, 221–24, 232–34, 241–43, 247–49, 256–57, 266–68, 277–78, 317–19, 386–88, 455–57
Seven of Wands, 69–70, 121–22, 217–18, 228–30, 238–39, 247–49, 251–52, 261–63, 273–74, 314–15, 382–83, 451–53
sexuality, 197, 268–71, 337. See also Relationship
and betrayal, 365
Boundaries and, 358–61
sublimation of, 90–91
Yesod and, 23–24, 88
shalom, 389
shalom bayit, 276
Shapira, Rebbe Kalonymus Kalman, 162
Shavuot, 5
Shekinah, 341–42, 426, 473, 499
and Malchut, 440
Shemini Atzeret, 343
Sh’ma, 154
Shulamit, 389
Shulman, Jason, 115, 336
siddur, 500
simcha, 265
Simcha, Rabbi Bunem, and the two pockets, 92
singing, in Tikkun, 483
singleness, 363–64, 408
Six of Cups, 64, 114–16, 123, 159–60, 169, 176, 181, 190–91, 199–200, 209–11, 239–40, 305–6, 373–75, 444–45
Six of Pentacles, 66–67, 119–20, 163–64, 172–73, 177, 184–85, 194–95, 204–5, 213–14, 243–45, 310–12, 378–80, 448–49
Six of Swords, 65–66, 117–18, 161, 163, 171–72, 176–77, 183–84, 192–93, 201–4, 211–12, 241–43, 307–9, 376–78, 446–47
Six of Wands, 62–63, 113–14, 157–58, 167–68, 175, 179–80, 188, 198–99, 208–9, 238–39, 303–5, 371–73, 443–44
Sixth Great Extinction, 302–3
slavery. See enslavement
Sleep of Reason, The (Goya), 289
Smith, Pamela Colman, 33–36, 153n, 406
social loner, 200
Society for Creative Anachronism, 438
Society of Souls, A, 336
Solomon, King, 32, 166, 389
Song of Songs, 389, 402 soul, four levels of, 30
Soulforce Equality Riders, 127, 129
Sovereign, defined, 434
Sovereignty, 425–26, 429–30
speaking in tongues, 6–7
spiritual discipline, 227
spiritual materialism, 331
spiritual practice, 227
Splendor, 282. See also Hod
Hod and, 22–23
still, small voice, 130
stone that was rejected, 367
Strength. See also Gevurah
Gevurah and, 19–20
Structural inequality, 120
Structure, 54, 57, 111–12, 120, 147, 149. See also Gevurah
study, 44, 374–75, 380
support, 470–71
Surrender, 74, 133–34, 282, 295. See also Hod
to a Higher Power, 250
Swords, 50
Tanakh, 269
Tarfon, Rabbi, 127, 186
tarot. See also Counting the Omer
history, 31–36
Kabbalah and, 10–11
tarot cards, 31–34
divination and prediction with, 255–56
key words and, 40–42
reading, 189, 255–56
using in Counting the Omer, 38–40
tarot decks, 31–36
having one’s own, 42
teacher, 374–75
tea story (Zen), 324
Temple, destruction of, 473
Ten of Cups, 94–95, 150–51, 209–11, 274–76, 338–41, 416–18, 429–30, 436–37, 444–45, 453–55, 462–63, 471–72, 479–80
Ten of Pentacles, 97–99, 152–55, 213–14, 279–81, 342–44, 422–24, 432–33, 440–42, 448–49, 457–59, 466–69, 476–77, 479–80
Ten of Swords, 95–96, 151, 211–12, 277–78, 341–42, 418–21, 430–32, 438–39, 446–47, 455–57, 464–66, 473–75, 479–80
Ten of Wands, 93–94, 148, 208–9, 272–74, 336–38, 414–16, 427–28, 435–36, 443–44, 451–53, 460–61, 470–71, 479–80
ten people, 416–17
Tertullian, 295–96
therapy, 98, 384–86
thirty-six, significance of, 346
Tiananmen Square protests, 299
Tiferet, 16, 24, 61–62, 67, 116, 156
Beauty and Truth and, 20–21
defined, 20–21
week of Counting the Omer, 156–214
Tiferet of Chesed, 61–68
Tiferet of Gevurah, 112–20
Tiferet of Hod, 302–12
Tiferet of Malchut, 442–49
Tiferet of Netzach, 237–45
Tiferet of Tiferet, 174–78
Tiferet of Yesod, 369–80
Tikkun, on Day 50, 481–85
Tikkun Leil Shavuot, 8–9, 44
Tikkun Olam, 28–29, 60, 94, 440, 467, 470
creating space for, 484
Tissot, James Jacques Joseph, 353
Tobias, Andrew, 300
“To every thing there is a season,” 437
Torah, 4–5, 100
study of, 466–67, 482–83
Torah Told Different (Ramer), 482
traitor, 233
transgression, 257
trauma, intimacy trauma, 404–7
Tree of Life, 12–15, 340, 343, 432, 469.
See also Sephirot
trickster, 223
Truth, 442–43
v. lying, 369–71
t’shuvah, 278
Turner, Brock, 361
turning, 348–49
twelve-step process, 132, 203–4, 249–50
first three steps, 135–36
fourth step, 459
ninth step, 280
and study, 374–75
typewriters, collecting, 339–40
Tzadikim Nistarim, 346
tzedakah, 164–65
Tzimtzum, 100
Understanding, Binah and, 18
Upper Limits Problem, 77, 278
Via Lucis, 7
victimization, 136–37, 299, 318–19, 321
competitive victimhood, 318–19
victim identity, 318–19
vine, 90
Vipassana meditation, 193
visions, 253–54
wa, 377–78
Waite, Arthur Edward, 32–34
Waite-Smith deck, 34–36
walls, 217
warrior’s path, 51
Weather Underground, 242
Weeks (of Counting the Omer)
Pentecost, 481–85
Week 1: Chesed, 46–99
Week 2: Gevurah, 100–155
Week 3: Tiferet, 156–214
Week 4: Netzach, 215–81
Week 5: Hod, 282–344
Week 6: Yesod, 345–424
Week 7: Malchut, 425–80
We Shall Overcome, 246–47
“What the World Needs Now,” 426
When Religion Becomes Evil (Kimball), 465
white-knuckling, 249
wholeness, 389
Will, 17
will, writing one’s, 456–57
Wisdom, Chokhmah and, 18 witness, 187
Wolf of Wall Street, The, 423
“Woodstock,” 269
Wordsworth, William, 457–58, 463
work, 466–69
World in a Grain of Sand, 450
worlds, four, 26–31
writing, creative, 182
yasher koach, 478
Yearning, 379–80, 389
yechida, 417
Yesod
addiction and, 82
and Bonding, 197, 345
Connection and, 23–25, 82–83
dark side of, 260–61
defined, 23–25
Foundation and, 23–25, 345–46
negative side, 24–25
week of Counting the Omer, 345–424
Yesod of Chesed, 82–92
Yesod of Gevurah, 138–47
Yesod of Hod, 327–35
Yesod of Malchut, 469–77
Yesod of Netzach, 260–71
Yesod of Tiferet, 196–206
Yesod of Yesod, 402–13
Yetzirah, defined, 28–29
YHVH, 30–31, 130
on breaking the covenant, 365, 366
and God language, 499–501
sustaining power of, 460–61
and vision, 253
yoducha, 177
Yohai, Rabbi Shimon Bar, 417, 471–72
Yom Kippur, 343
“Yusuf and Zulaikha,” 355
zava’ah, 456–57
Zohar, 9–10, 31, 322, 417
Zulaikha, 355–57
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