THE CABALA OF FIRE

A towering wildfire jumped firefighters' perimeter lines and moved into the city of Colorado Springs, forcing frantic evacuation orders for more than 32,000 residents and destroying an unknown number of homes; the fire doubled in size overnight to more than 24 square miles.

While Colorado burns, Florida floods; when the two components of heaven, fire and water, separate they cause chaos – Shamiyam/Heaven is a combination of Ash/Fire and Maiyin/Water. What distinguishes these two primal elements: water holds together while fire tears apart.

There are 32 paths of wisdom, as taught in the Cabala; and, the gematria of Lev/Heart and Coved/Liver are both 32 – the head, heart and liver correspond to the three sections of the body derived from the Tree of Life built on three triangles. The power of speech is dumbfounded.

There are 24 books in the Torah, also divided into three sections: the Five Books of Moshe, the Prophets and the Written Text – speech is the Oral Torah. Fire and Water the represent Chesed/Kindness and Gevorah/Severity – both possess the power to perpetuate and destroy.

The body thinks in the head, feels in the heart and acts from liver, producing speech. Thinking of so many families and communities uprooted from their homes left, in ruin: the heart is compelled, awakening the liver into action – in the end, America is a community of people.