GEVURAH: NETILAT YADAYIM (נטילת ידיים): PURIFYING (WASHING OF THE HANDS) RITUAL

NETILAT YADAYIM (נטילת ידיים): PURIFYING (WASHING OF THE BODY) RITUAL BEFORE THE MAIN READINGS OF `PRAYER OF MANY´ THIS WEEK.

An Act Without an Intention        

Check yourself before each act to see if you can add an intention to the act

If we can’t “dress” the acts with an intention, what is left for us is to do the acts without an intention.  Gradually we will be able to add the goal to them, the intention.

“He who finds fault in others, finds it within himself,” and I need to see if these things are in my favor or not. If it seems to me that a friend, for example, is showing off, then it’s a sign for me. It’s the way I see things and then I need to think why I am shown these things specifically.

I need to see it on two planes, both for the criticism and also to check myself. I can’t waive the criticism since I must relate to the society as I see it, and on the other hand, the faults I see are my own. This is to say that on the one hand, I need to correct the society and on the other hand, I need to check within me where the disturbance that I see in my friend exists in me since otherwise I wouldn’t see it.

PRAYER FOR UPPER STATE: SELF SCRUTINY – as additional exercise for Yom Kippur, let us scrutinize each ourself in everything, specially regarding the connection, and identify something to correct in ourself, specially those that we thought we see in others, when it is actually meant for us ourself to try and identify this in ourself and correct.

Arvut!

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YOUR ACTUAL STATE: GIVE STATEMENT ACCORDING TO OUR ACTUAL SPIRITUAL STATE OR UNDERSTANDING / JUSTIFICATION OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: WITH EACH OUR MINYAN, KINDLY GO THROUGH THIS TIVILAH טְבִילָה.

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ARVUT!