THE CABALA OF CHANGE

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland say they have a better way to mark time: a new calendar in which every year is identical to the one before by adding an occasional leap week.

This new calendar, an adaptation of the ancient Hebrew calendar that adds an extra month every few years during the 19 year cycle of the moon to keep the holidays in their season, is a refined version aligning each day – the ultimate pragmatic tool of efficiency.

The Hebrew calendar lacks this exactness to allow diversity to happen – similar scenarios in a slightly different time reference. The Weak Power of the atom exhibits similar attributes causing the diversity of elements through the degradation of matter into energy.

However moments are measured, time is a spiral with large loops at the beginning then funneling down into the apex as life on Earth runs out of time. A year is time that affixes and encapsulates those who will be born and those who will die – this is their year.

The Cabala teaches, Shana/Year also means Shana/Change; a cycle is concluded through the imperfection of the circle turning into a spiral. Everything spirals, from the galaxy to our DNA – life is forever winding down, faster and faster until humbled we return to the light.

Month of Miracles

Today begins the month of Nissan. Our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt and in Nissan the future will be redeemed, according to the Talmud-Book of Law. The name of the month, Nissan, is cognate to the word, Nissim/Miracles.

The first commandment to the Jewish People is to make this month, the month of Nissan to be the first of our months even though the world calculates years from the fall–Rosh HaShana/Head of the Year. The new year of the fall provides sustenance whereas the new year of the spring brings freedom.

Freedom is a miracle as witnessed by the great difficulties surrounding being free–but, what is free? The Torah says that the teachings will make you free yet the teachings involve endless laws. How do laws make you free? The laws are boundaries and within the law you can be free and spontaneous.

Animals are not free because they are restrained by their inherent nature which never changes–the most stringent boundaries; human beings are expected to go beyond their nature and spiritual laws allow a safe place for this constant transition.

The Cabala explains how Cheresh/Free is connected to Cheresh/Engraved; when the truth of our freedom is engraved inside within then our light shins into the world. The month of Nissan in the spring is the beginning to a new cycle of freedom and freedom is a miracle.

Sun Renewed Passover Eve

Every twenty-eight years the sun returns to the place in the heavens where it was in the fourth day of creation when the celestial bodies were solidified in their orbit; there is a blessing accompanying this event acknowledging the Creator as having Oseh Maasa Berashith/Performing the Acts of Creation. The fundamental difference between the profane and truly profound is in the acknowledgment that the Creator is in the world and not the product of a spontaneous Big Bang, but rather the intricate design and constant creation of the Creator.

God who is neither physical nor spiritual, allowing God to be everywhere all the time to everything and to everybody, chose the heavens as vehicles of communications to the earth; having this 28 year cycle happen hours before the celebration of Passover which is the holiday of the spring rejoicing in the freedom of humanity as told during the Passover Seder of how the Jewish People were released from slavery and brought out into freedom as a nation is a shout from the heavens.

In this extraordinary time of world-wide change, the correcting of the 30 hour a year fraction is significant; in Hebrew is the Lamed—a large letter towering above the other letters is known as the connection between the heavens and earth. This special time is what is called in the Torah, End of Day; when the next 28 year event happens the 6000 year Hebrew calendar will have only 300 years left.