balancing

"3 Mothers א Aleph, מ Mem and ש Shin are Air אויר (avir), Water מים (mahyim) and Fire אש (aish). Fire is above, Water is below, and the Breath of Air balances between them. 

Mem hums, Shin hisses, and Aleph is the Breath of Air between them. (Sefer Yetzirah)

This picture can be used as a focus for meditation.  Sit comfortably and become aware of your chest rising and falling with the Air of your Breath.  Breathe in through your nose down into your belly with your lips closed.  This is the Mem.  Open your lips and breathe out through your teeth.  This is the Shin.  Repeat… more

The first Hebrew letter - א Aleph - represents the unification of opposites.  

Its shape is comprised of an upper red part (actually a Hebrew letter י Yod); a lower blue part (an upside-down י Yod); balanced by a yellow diagonal part (a ו Vav which is a prefix that means ‘and’).  It can also be seen as the numeral 1.  The two are united into One by the Vav.  The Gematria of the sum of the 3 letters that comprise this Aleph equals 26 (2 Yods are 20 plus the Vav which is 6). 

In a sense, Aleph is a One-Letter Name of God, because the sum of the 4 letters of… more

The idea non-duality is found in many spiritual traditions.  In this picture I fused the Hebrew letter א Aleph with the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol.  Both symbols represent non-duality or the unification of opposites:  Heaven and Earth, Hot and Cold, Masculine and Feminine, Outside and Inside, etc.

The small circles inside both halves represent how there is Feminine is the Masculine; and Masculine in the Feminine.

Some people see two fish here (one upside-down) the symbol for Pisces.   In Kabbalistic astrology, Pisces is the month of Adar אדר - a word that begins with Aleph. … more