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I was apparently wrong about the 42 stations being between Mitzraim and Sinai, as it was apparently ending in Canaan instead. I deleted some information on Shavuot instead. I'm gonna look more into this to figure it out.
(I have added significant Jewish Kabbalistic detail to the section on the 42-letter name.) |
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קרע (kra), which begins the second part of this variant, translates to "tear out," and when combined with שטן ([[Satan]]), the conclusion of the second part, it demonstrates that invoking this Name helps one defend against Satan, or their ''yetzer hara'' (evil/selfish impulse), alongside other divine creative acts that incanting Divine Names can aid kabbalists in joining HaShem with. Perhaps in this self-improvement and mystical apotropaic vein, the 42-letter Name has been turned into the acrostic prayer ''Ana b'Koach'', which begs HaShem, with the power of His Right Hand, for freedom from captivity, sin, and impurity. Since this prayer is an extended incantation of this Name, it has an additional line spoken silently, as the acrostic implies secrecy: "''Barukh shem k'vod malchuto l'olam va'ed''." "Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever." This prayer has seven lines, which correspond to the seven [[Sefirot]] below the Supernal Triad (those being [[Binah]], [[Chokmah]], and either [[Keter]] or [[Da'at]]). All of the above is why the prayer is part of the liturgy for the Counting of the Omer, the seven week period between the Jewish holidays of ''Pesach'' (Passover) and ''Shavuot'' (the Feast of Weeks) in which Jews are challenged to count and bless every day in between and ponder a system of Sefirotic permutations (each week has one Sefira, while the other six cycle through it, going from [[Chesed]] to [[Malkuth|Malkut]]. For example, the first day (which begins the second night of Passover) is ''Chesed b'Chesed'', the second is ''[[Gevurah]] b'Chesed'', etc., while the very last day before ''Shavuot'' will be ''Malkut b'Malkut''. These meditations on the Sefirot are meant to improve our personal attributes in this period. Besides particular farming and sacrificing practices, the Omer is meant to represent the first time | קרע (kra), which begins the second part of this variant, translates to "tear out," and when combined with שטן ([[Satan]]), the conclusion of the second part, it demonstrates that invoking this Name helps one defend against Satan, or their ''yetzer hara'' (evil/selfish impulse), alongside other divine creative acts that incanting Divine Names can aid kabbalists in joining HaShem with. Perhaps in this self-improvement and mystical apotropaic vein, the 42-letter Name has been turned into the acrostic prayer ''Ana b'Koach'', which begs HaShem, with the power of His Right Hand, for freedom from captivity, sin, and impurity. Since this prayer is an extended incantation of this Name, it has an additional line spoken silently, as the acrostic implies secrecy: "''Barukh shem k'vod malchuto l'olam va'ed''." "Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever." This prayer has seven lines, which correspond to the seven [[Sefirot]] below the Supernal Triad (those being [[Binah]], [[Chokmah]], and either [[Keter]] or [[Da'at]]). All of the above is why the prayer is part of the liturgy for the Counting of the Omer, the seven-week period between the Jewish holidays of ''Pesach'' (Passover) and ''Shavuot'' (the Feast of Weeks) in which Jews are challenged to count and bless every day in between and ponder a system of Sefirotic permutations (each week has one Sefira, while the other six cycle through it, going from [[Chesed]] to [[Malkuth|Malkut]]. For example, the first day (which begins the second night of Passover) is ''Chesed b'Chesed'', the second is ''[[Gevurah]] b'Chesed'', etc., while the very last day before ''Shavuot'' will be ''Malkut b'Malkut''. These meditations on the Sefirot are meant to improve our personal attributes in this period. Besides particular farming and sacrificing practices, the Omer is meant to represent the first time Bnei Yisrael counted it: leaving ''Mitzraim'' ([[Egyptian religion|Egypt]]) and heading to Canaan. During the journey, they stopped at 42 locations, once more connecting to the importance of this particular Divine Name. Despite his staunch atheism and absurdism, this might be the true kabbalistic reason that Douglas Adams declared that number to be the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything in ''The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. | ||
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