19TH DAY OF OMER, HOD OF TEFERET
If you want to establish the wholeness we all want and make it part of you, you have to thank Hashem for all of His gifts to you. When you do this, you demonstrate that you haven’t fallen into the trap of self-worship in which you see yourself as the source of your own power. Thankfulness makes your desire for wholeness take you closer to Hashem.
This is especially true when it comes to success in learning, teaching, and observing mitzvos. You have received the components that make these achievements possible as a gift (for instance having an particular talent to analyze, or a good memory, or the charm that makes dong a mitzvah involving other people much easier) You can feel free to let yourself feel the joy of having made use of the gifts you were given in ways that draw you closer to the goals that you really want for yourself (and perhaps even for Klal Yisrael), but you will be even happier if you remember that you are beloved enough to have the gifts that made your choices possible.
WITH OTHER PEOPLE
Be careful to express thankfulness to all of the people in your life who make it possible to be the person you seek to become. This is especially true in regard to your teachers and (if you teach) to your students.
If you find yourself debating with your friend (in torah, about various ideals, about practical things etc.), and in the midst of your debate you realize that he is right, the debate isn’t over yet. You have to admit that he is right (not just nod and walk away), and thank him for setting you straight.
You should feel and express gratitude not only to the teachers who have guided you or taught you personally, but to the Talmedei chachamim who ae the backbone of truth in our times. Expressing gratitude to them is done by doing whatever you can to support them and help them in anything that they need.
LIMB- YOUR ENTIRE BODY
TIME- DAY
TEFILLAH- GATHING IN THE EXILES
SHEM KADOSH- ELOKIM TZIVAKOS
PERSON (A NEW FEATURE!)- AHARON
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