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One is the
Breath of the Living God.
This is Holy Breath.
Breathe in. Be aware that you
are alive because you breathe. This one breath
of Life is holy. It is holy because it is from
God who is One. Every living being breathes in
this same One Breath of the Living God. Ruah
Hakodesh - Holy Breath - is about knowing
that you are breathing in God every time you inhale.

Two is
Breath from Breath.
Engrave and Carve
Letters.
Breathe out. Be aware that being
alive gives you incredible creative powers. We
engrave and carve letters and words in the air
with our voices, our speech - our breath. The
letters that are formed by your breath tell your
story, your unique Sippur. All the words
that pour from your voice with your breath speak
your truth out into the world.
We 'breathe' in One Breath as we live in God,
and we breathe out a second breath, Breath from
Breath, as we form letters with our breath. Ruah
Hakodesh, Holy Breath, is also about knowing
how amazingly creative you are every time you
exhale. Your breath and the letters of speech
that flow from your mouth engrave and carve the
story of your soul into the elastic tablet of
space-time.
In the Heart are
Paths of Wondrous Wisdom.
As your breath continually flows
in and out of your body, whether you are aware
of it or not, every moment that you are alive
your heart beats with the rhythm of Life, sending
blood streaming through your arteries and veins
to all the different parts of your body.
These are all Paths for the Wondrous Wisdom of
the Living God to reveal itself through, exquisite
living forms that are crafted with awesome artistry
and creativity.
Just as every cell in your body tells the unique
story (Sippur) of your soul, everything
in the universe writes its own book (Sepher),
weaves its own unique pattern into the fabric
of space-time.
The flight of birds and the song of whales, the
structure of crystals, the patterns of storms,
the spiral shapes of galaxies, the double-helix
of DNA, the form of every living thing tell of
the Wondrous Wisdom of the One God.
There are countless paths for the One Breath,
countless creative expressions of the Living God.
The Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation) teaches
about the Thirty-two Paths of Wondrous Wisdom.
In Hebrew, the letters lamed and vav
that form the Hebrew word for heart lev
represent the number thirty-two. The Wondrous
Wisdom of the One God branches into two paths,
these two paths branch into four paths, four into
eight, eight into sixteen, and sixteen into thirty-two
paths, like our veins and arteries branch from
our heart, our lev. According to the Zohar,
Binah (Understanding) is in the heart.
Thus, the thirty-two Paths of Sefer Yetzirah
are associated with Binah.
Binah understands something by analyzing
its constituent parts. Understanding comes from
seeing how things are different, from channeling
our minds into branching webs of connected thoughts
while we strive to examine ever-greater details.
Binah is how our minds form complex systems
of related ideas, which meander and wander through
our brains.
However, all of these different Paths are channels
for undifferentiated Chokhmah, the ocean
of Wondrous Wisdom that flows through all living
beings, through all paths, through all thoughts.
Chokhmah does not differentiate. Wisdom
strives to see larger wholes; it looks for commonalties,
similarities rather than differences. The root
of the Hebrew word for Wondrous Phela,
has the same letters as Aleph.
Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew
alphabet, and thus represents the One. Breathe
in the One Holy Breath of God into your heart
and see how all paths come from One source. Delight
in Wondrous Wisdom as you breathe out your breath
of life through all the different Paths of your
mind and body.
Engrave Yod Heh
And Create.
In the Kabbalah, the Hebrew letters
Yod and Heh represent Chokhmah
and Binah. These are also known as Father
and Mother, respectively. The shape of the letter
Yod represents a drop of semen whose DNA
contains wondrous Wisdom - a blueprint for constructing
one whole human being. However, in order for a
child to be born from this seed, it must be planted
in the fertile soil of a womb. The shape of the
Hebrew letter Heh presents an embryo developing
in its mother's womb. Undifferentiated Wisdom
- Yod - is continually being channeled
through the particular Paths of Understanding
- Heh - that give birth to our various
thoughts and words. Together Yod and Heh
lovingly unite, engrave and create.
With Three Sepharim:
With Sepher,
With Sephar,
And with Sippur.
Chokhmah is the first Sepher,
a book which has been written but has not yet
been read, the Wisdom that is contained by all
Paths. Binah is the second Sefer,
a book that has been opened and read, the Understanding
that comes from embarking on a particular Path
and following it. Sippur is Daat
- consciousness - a story that is constantly being
told as we live and breathe.
Daat is the child of Father Chokhmah
and Mother Binah, born from the dynamic
interplay that takes place between the Wisdom
that is hidden in the whole and the Understanding
that is revealed by the parts. Yod and
Heh (Chokhmah and Binah)
interacting with each other and creating complex
webs of similar differences and different similarities
create our consciousness.

Understand with Wisdom
and Be Wise with Understanding.
Understanding sees differences,
whereas Wisdom sees similarities. Daat
is the combination and integration of Chokhmah
and Binah - seeing similar differences and different
similarities. The story of the universe is told
with these three Sepharim. This story, Sippur,
is a story of Daat - consciousness.
Daat is also associated with Ruah Hakodesh
- Divine enlightenment.
This is an expanded state of consciousness in
which you know that many paths of Wisdom that
are now hidden and opaque to you can become revealed
and Understood if you are open to learn from them.
Enlightenment is also about knowing that no matter
how much you can Understand of any path, there
is always so much more Wisdom in it that remains
concealed and mysterious. Ruah Hakodesh
is about knowing that all Paths of Wondrous Wisdom
are similarly different, and differently similar.
Examine with them
and probe from them.
Raise everything to its Essence
and seat the Creator on His Base.

However much we can understand
of anything in Creation, the essence of that thing
we are examining and probing remains unfathomable
and mysterious because it is created with the
Wondrous and Infinite Wisdom of the One Living
God.
Understanding with Wisdom raises each thing to
its essence. It is not missing the whole when
looking at the parts, not missing the forest for
the trees, not forgetting the Creator when looking
at His creations. Being Wise with Understanding
seats the Creator on His base. It is not missing
the parts when looking at the whole, not looking
for the Creator divorced from His creations. Ruah
Hakodesh is seeing all finite things ascending
to their Essence or Infinite Source. Ruah Hakodesh
is seeing the One Infinite God descending to sit
on His base, a multitude of finite paths for the
Wondrous Wisdom of the Living God.
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