THE CABALA OF CLOUDS

Our solar system appears to sit at the edge of one of many low-density interstellar clouds that move through this region of the galaxy—and we may actually exit the cloud in the next few thousand years, the data show.

The first description of creation offered by the Zohar-Book of Secret is of a cloud, also known as Reshima/Hint–the Jewish People lived in a cloud called Ananni HaKoved/Clouds of Glory that rained bread upon the people during the forty years wandering in the Wilderness.

The cloud represents the feminine aspect of God, as seen from the quote, I will place by bow within the cloud. The Cabala explains, The cloud happens as a result of the heat from the sun making the water melt and the vapor to rise – Mayin Nukvim/Feminine waters.

When Avraham takes his son, Yitzchok to be sacrificed, they look out over the Wilderness and Avraham asks, What do you see, my son? Yitzchok answers, I see a majestic mountain topped with a cloud. Avraham asks his servants what they see, but the servants only see wilderness.

Avraham tells the servants to stay with the animals because they are liken to animals unable to see beyond what their eyes behold. In 1000 years the Solar System will exit this celestial cloud and life on Earth will be inexorably changed as the Zohar-Book of Secret predicts.

The Seven Day Cloud

Sukkot, the week-long Jewish holiday which begins at sundown this Friday, October 2, 2009, remembers how our ancestors lived in the clouds as they made the 40 year journey from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land.

The cloud itself was in seven parts: the four sides of the box surrounding the people, floor, ceiling and one cloud in front that led the way through the wilderness. On each night of Sukkot we are visited by one of the Seven Shepherds called the Espisim: the Three Fathers, Avraham, Yitzchok and Yaakov (Yisrael), Yoseph, Moshe, Aaron and Dovid.

According to the Cabala, Dovid, the seventh of the Seven Shepherds represents the cloud which led because it is separated from the other six in the same way in which the six days of the week are separated from the seventh day of the week called the Shabbot/Rest. It is during the Shabbot that Royalty is revealed in the world through the Shakina, the feminine presence of the Creator that hovered over creation and gives us comfort.

It is significant when the Shabbot and a holiday happens on the same day because the two spiritual lights of the Shabbot and the holiday intertwine to make a new and more powerful light replacing the need for, in this case, the taking of the Lulav and Etrog as will be done in the subsequent six days of Sukkot.