inevitable part of life that we all have our challenges our weaknesses our weak points and how you deal with them defines your life it's one thing dealing with success when things are going well that too is an art to make sure that you appreciate your gifts and have gratitude and humility but particularly when we're in hot water when we're situations where we're deeply challenged that's where you can either see how a human being shines or unfortunately succumbs and that's the topic the mystics teach a fascinating idea that the Moon the Moon is within each of
us in microcosm and it reflects Our Lives more than the sun even in what way when you look at the Moon you'll see it waxes and wanes it waxes and wanes it's never the same every night there's a different part of the Moon that reflects the Earth so you have the new moon you have the first quarter the full moon the second the third quarter and then again the process repeats itself the sun though it goes through its own shifts but nevertheless it's mostly consistent sunlight Shining what reflects more life that consistent intensity of the
Sun or the ups and downs and the waxing and waning of the Moon I think the answer is obvious so the moon reflects Our Lives and just as the moon goes through its Cycles we go through our Cycles that's what life is about navigating the vicissitudes navigating the ups and downs now when you enter the equation a lunar eclipse and the other end it's like a super moon a moon that's so large it makes it even more fascinating as the plot thickens in its relationship and how it reflects in our lives and there are many
lessons we can glean from it that can help us deal with our own personal eclipses when we are in the shadows when our light is eclipsed even momentarily what teaches us what we can learn from it how we become stronger and indeed that actually reveals a part of us that you cannot see when there is no Eclipse so the clips of the Moon actually reveals a component in the Moon that you don't see during regular nights and this is what we'll all be speaking about now let's just dissect what happens to a human being when
we're faced with a challenge and we suddenly feel weak debilitated demoralized so two things are happening simultaneously one is the actual setback the actual event the actual cause that is causing us to be in that type of state it could be an outside force it could be an inside force it can be the enemies within your own demons your own fears or it could be something else that happened to you at work or at home or just in the street so there's the event itself objectively has caused you to thrown you a curveball which causes
you to have to figure out what to do it's a challenge but there's a second thing that's happening simultaneously and that's harder to detect that's our emotional reaction to that event to that experience and this is really where the real battle takes place we cannot control the curveball that will come our way but how are we going to what our attitude will be how we're going to respond that we can control but what happens is when we've thrown a curveball the first thing we have either shock or surprise or as I said being disturbed or
demoralized a whole series of emotions are triggered when we're faced with that situation just think the last time of something that happened so you got something in the mail that was not Pleasant news or as you got a phone call or you heard something in in the Grapevine that was not initially positive for you the first thing is right away what am I going to do there's almost an element of like helplessness feeling like the rug was pulled out from under you now of course it's a wide spectrum of setbacks they're real serious traumas and
real serious losses and things that are a lot not less obviously each of us has to film The the fill in the blanks to apply it to our personal lives and I don't want to focus on one particular weakness I want to focus as many as possible because each of us will deal with different types of challenges like that but whatever it is there's going to be an emotional response and the emotional response is actually separate from the actual experience what you'll see and what we'll discuss is that when you can learn to separate the
two that's the beginning of learning to control the situation so using a simple example you're a good swimmer you're swimming in unknown Waters now you're skilled you know how to do it you've done it many times then suddenly a storm strikes so what does a good swimmer do looks checks out to seize the situation sees the tide which way the tide is going the waves the intensity and a good swimmer will immediately adjust accordingly just like a good driver will adjust to the winds or to other forces we adjust and what is the good swimming
going to adjust to if it's a very strong tide or very strong storm he or she is not going to fight the waves they're not going to fight the storm they'll relax and allow themselves to be carried because they know it'll deplete their energy if they in any way begin to fight and try to make it through someone is less skilled or less experienced may try to fight and literally lose their energy which can become dangerous so what are you doing you're adjusting you're not changing the fact that there's a storm that you cannot change
that happened you're in the water you're adjusting to it quickly in a way that you can then navigate through that particular challenge the same thing you'll see with great athletes let's say a tennis player and there's some these a ball has hit to them unexpectedly what they will do is immediately adjust accordingly based on their experience and every situation all experienced people know how to do that they adjust it doesn't always mean it's going to work perfectly but the adjustment is necessary so if you're able to distinguish between the challenge or the weakness that you're
now because that is now exposed or anything that makes you vulnerable and your ability to adjust that's the beginning of how you resolve issues so in the context of our personal lives we have to look at our lives in this way that life is a navigational is a journey and the journey has ups and downs and it has twists and turns and there'll be unexpected events they'll be back backlash there'll be setbacks there'll be losses it's all comes down to how you navigate so let's not go back to the Moon the Moon is not necessarily
alive even though there are opinions that the moon has an intelligence to it but the Moon is a natural cycle it naturally is constantly going through waxing and waning teaching us that that's life is perfectly fine to know that every day your light shines a bit differently and I should qualify and say this obviously the Moon is always bright as it's facing the sun we're talking about the moon's effect on Earth the light that shines to us which affects the tides which affects um the the nocturnal life and other growths that grow under the moon
light and so on so the moon as it reflects to us is constantly going through shifts and when you look at it study it it's actually a great lesson in life the lesson is that a moon will go through Cycles now we don't necessarily go through the cycles literally like the 29 days of the month of the lunar month but the idea that there'll be times where you'll be a full moon that's in a great mood you're exuberant you're shining forth you're Illuminating and there'll be times when you're very like almost disappear the birthing but
it's the birth of a new moon and there'll be times like the first quarter and times in the third quarter where the Moon is a crescent a quarter could be a little more a little less and every day of the month the moon has its own particular stage that is navigation so the moon within each of us each of us is like a moon we need to receive light from a source which is our first from our parents our Educators our mentors our teachers all those that Inspire us at the same time we also give
off light so the moon has those two Dimensions it's receiving and exuding but it does so in this in a cyclical in a cyclical cyclical way reflecting the navigation I just described so something comes in a situation your way say to yourself you know what my moon now is undergoing a certain diminishment that doesn't mean you're less it means you need to adjust accordingly like a wheel that's turning think of it like the heartbeat the heartbeat is always a a pulsating energy going to and fro tension and resolution contraction expansion the breath exhale inhale it's
a process and you never stop traveling and you realize it's all part of one Journey see even the total diminishment of the moon is part of the Journey For The Rebirth of the Moon to begin its light its cycle its new Journey again every month in Hebrew actually the month the word month comes from the word renewal it's a new moon they'll say it's the same Moon that was there but we're talking again it's a reflection it's a new reflection a new moon after it's been diminished telling us that life is a journey never think
that any frame of your life is independent from other frames because that's where we can really you can really overwhelm us so when you're in a certain situation you suddenly feel that this is it this is now a real setback if you don't recognize that it's a journey and this moon will continue to travel and the setback is not going to remain this way then there's strength and confidence to move forward the four Jad but if you convince yourself that my moment remember the emotional reaction of demoralization takes over then besides the actual setback the
actual diminishment you've now turned it into a liability when in truth all it is really is a step a stepping stone a step in a journey we'll soon talk about what is it a step toward but just like when we go to sleep at night and when we can fall asleep our faculties go down to a lower level why because our body is being regenerated refreshed a soul in our body so if someone comes and meets someone that sees someone asleep say well look wow it's asleep the person is not functioning properly that's if you
don't know what sleep is but when you understand that sleep is just a step of regenerating to wake up in the morning fresh and refreshed Anew that it's a whole different approach then you essentially you're essentially see the sleep as a step toward that type of refreshment the same like the moon and the same in our attitudes the difficulty is these things examples I'm giving of the Moon and of the sleep are all natural processes what we need to do is apply that to our attitude exactly the same way now of course nobody likes a
setback nobody likes being diminished nobody likes a weakness but it's part of the reality and if you see it as a stepping stone if you see it almost as a time as business people will say that when the market is when the when business is slower it's a greater time to reassess to take accounting to take inventory to review the processes because when you're in full swing of business you can't step back and just review things so that's a perfect time of reassessing your business the same thing is when there is a so-called setback and
you're in a state you're in a weaker State it's an opportunity to reflect to be introspective to prepare so when you enter the next phase of your moon the next site in the next phase of your lunar cycle you'll be empowered with this accounting and this preparation now this one I've discussed so far is strictly about the moon every month on an ongoing basis we didn't talk about a super moon we didn't talk about eclipse but now let's enter into the domain of what happened this week and it's particular lesson but I want to get
some up each of us has a moon like feature that is uh the recipient within us in the words of the capitalists the Moon is called the light the energy of the recipient it's interesting you usually think a recipient a recipient is just in a passive State just receiving it's not correct the act of receiving requires energy it requires selling aside other agendas requires concentration and requires focus and absorbing that which is coming your way if the moon was busy with its own interests and not turning toward the Sun and facing to reflect it it
wouldn't be the Moon so the moon like energy by definition is a recipient that is an energy as a matter of fact the better you listen the better you can speak the more you absorb information the more you can teach information those that listen well will be listened to those that don't know how to listen you say to yourself you know what maybe it's a very smart person but they've never been in a mode of absorbing of sensitivity of caring so if you think of it that way that adds another dimension to it that the
moon cycles are part of that process the process of when it's in total absorption mode that's when it's not giving off any light to Earth or when it's in a mode of it's giving full light when it's then transmitting but the transmitting is only because it absorbed so there again we would call someone would call a weakness can actually be a strength why because the weakness is really a statement you should be absorbing you should be taking account you should be taking stock as I mentioned before so that is part of that the moon energy
now comes situations from time to time that the Moon is eclipsed now we know in the clubs the lunar eclipse is that the Sun which is usually reflecting the the moon reflected in the moon and its angle reaching Earth but what happens when the earth gets between the Sun and the Moon so this Earth shadow is cast on the moon and that's when you have an eclipse it can be a partial eclipse it could be a total eclipse the talmud actually does not associate it with a positive thing it says a lunar eclipse has a
negative implication but yet it's part of Nature and it's part of our reality now here's the interesting Paradox when it's a super Moon the Moon is its at its largest that is closest and yet there's a total lunar eclipse like this week so it's like a paradox which one is it is the moon as bright the brightest it could be or is it totally eclipsed and both came together then this rarer convergence of a super moon total lunar eclipse of a super moon and it's interesting that's connected to the red you red as opposed to
Blue usually the the moon in a regular itself is like grayish silverish blue during this type of total lunar eclipse it's reddish so we're going to talk about all these different elements so what is a lunar eclipse so let's draw what is it what is it an eclipse an eclipse means that in addition to its regular waxing whack waxing and waning hahaha here a force from outside that's not part of the moon's regular cycle it's going to talk about the Earth is causing the moon to be eclipsed for a certain period of time now as
soon as the eclipse is over the moon gets back to where it began it doesn't get doesn't get forever compromised only during this eclipse so so what is the significance of that the significance of that is that in life there will be times when you will be eclipsed by either events people experiences and eclipsing is not just a regular cycle it'll be a serious eclipse eclipse can be a trauma it can be a loss a death it can be that you're over someone else is chosen and you're fired or you're demoted and someone else has
promoted over you where you feel literally eclipsed eclipsed by another Force this is more than just a regular stuff because the regular cycle could say I understand that life goes through its stages and it's a journey but an eclipse is an intense thing and it's completely not up to you something's eclipsing you so what happens at that point what happens is that it exudes a red Hue not a blue why red so this is the scientific reasons but in the kabbalistic and mystical reasons the blue and red reflect two forms of energy blue is connected
to hasid to kindness and love it flows forward color of water the color of the moon is regular light is whitish grayish bluish red reflects gavora intensity severity you see it even psychologically why do you think red lights are used because red is like forbidden red is a warning sign stop sign red red elicits in us a type of almost like a fear or at least a refrain so in the flow or in the I should say in the balance of the sporadic balance of the 10 spheres on the right water on the left severity
fire fires is yellowish red so both of them are necessary in psychologically speaking blue as I said is love giving red is more judgment discipline refrain restraint sometimes Justice is reflected in that color so when it comes to a time of an eclipse what's Eclipse it's a form of guura it's a form of concealment it's also used sometimes as concealment we talk about in the luriana concept of the Simpson the Simpson is the great concealment of the Divine that's considered a form of concealment so the eclipse of the moon is a state of gura so
in our lives we will have times when love and kindness is bestowed upon us it shines Grace moments of Grace in our lives and there are times where it seems that the blessings are not revealed what do we feel eclipsed where we feel that something is not working right I don't want to use the word curse because it's not a curse but it could appear that way to some so we have the blue moments in our lives and we have the red moments in our lives we have the moments when things are shining forth yes
the cycles that the moon goes through and then there are times when we are actually eclipsed for a period of time can be short time it could be a little longer when it's a total eclipse we've been totally eclipsed an example for that is when yes when you suffer a loss loss of a parent loss of a close one what do you feel like you feel completely lost your whole being is eclipsed everything about you your energy your personality your exuberance Your Enthusiasm all suddenly is concealed it's eclipsed by the tragedy or trauma of your
life God should protect us all but it happens same thing can be other forms of trauma abuse anywhere with your personality your dignity your malhos remember the Moon is malhos your dignity is eclipsed through humiliation through betrayal through abandonment through abuse through invalidation the list goes on that's an eclipse that's not the regular Cycles we all go through Cycles every day every month day of the month every part of our lives this is more than just a cycle this is an actual abandonment this is a natural eclipse but even that as we are going to
talk about leads us can lead us to Greater strength so it is an eclipse at the moment it is not something that anybody looks forward to but it happens now it's even more powerful when it happens more dramatic I should say and more traumatic when it happens when we're at full strength so a super moon is when the moon is at its full strength if you look up in the sky these days these nights you'll see the moon is very large so suddenly that's eclipsed it's one thing an eclipse when the moon is at its
regular size but here you're at full strength you're going so well everything was really working and suddenly clips so the trauma and the impact and the demoralization that comes from it can be much deeper and yet at the same time the super moon does not become less of a super moon they're just not seen at this moment and that's the key thing to remember an eclipse is as the name implies it's eclipsing it's not destroying it's not annihilating in psychological terms when the Moon the Moon our dignity is in some way compromised it means it's
gone undercover it's been concealed or it's been the way Stripped Away From Us by somebody eclipsing us but should never ever think that your moon has disappeared it has not because if you wait the hour or whatever the time is the eclipse will leave the Earth as the orbit continues the moon will re-emerge and what will emerge as a full moon not just as a little moon it's not even a the beginning of the month it's always on the 15th of the month and will emerge in this full Glory as a super moon so you'll
say so what is this a point of the eclipse the point of the eclipse is God's mysterious way sometimes it may be something to get us to wake us up a wake-up call to stimulate within us the motivation to move forward and it's also in the capitalistic terms a reflection of the eclipses of life life has its setbacks life has its difficulties but you should know that the moon does not disappear so to speak about it in psychological terms a child that grows up in a home unfortunately that's dysfunctional and abusive or any person who
goes through a serious form of trauma where they've sold their Spirit has been eclipsed as I said before there's the experience and is how we react to the experience the reaction is far worse than the experience because the reaction is look what's happened to me I'm worthless I have no value it causes us to lose self-esteem it we it causes us to have fear insecurities now if you were able to dissect and say okay this happened to me but it's not me it's a very different attitude but we don't do it that way especially children
absolutely take it to heart that if I'm rejected if I'm invalidated if I'm eclipsed that means I deserve to be eclipsed and they come you can convince yourself to think that your light is no longer there comes a lunar eclipse that says that's not true even if there is an eclipse for whatever reason your light is completely intact it's critical that you remember that and never forget it because maybe for that moment for that temporary time your eclipsed due to someone else's criminal Behavior someone else's horrendous Behavior but you and your dignity your mouth did
not disappear momentarily it does not shining it's covered up only to re-emerge with even more intensity because now you appreciate what your light is about so in therapeutic terms every time you deal with someone who's gone through difficult times trauma or other forms of eclipses and shadows which you really want to help them achieve is to reconnect to the light that's there even during the eclipse and to reconnect to that so they can re-emerge and come out even stronger that's really the goal of everything but we get so consumed by the eclipse and its effect
on us that becomes the haunting force that haunts Our Lives that we deserved it that were worthless we're not valuable enough so what responds to the red you is a tremendous abundance because once the eclipse is over the Sun the moon goes back to its natural light of love so love is the antidote when you love someone who feels they don't deserve love and gives you a whole case of why they don't because look at my people who are supposed to love me my family my parents and others did not you still love them and
you show this unconditional love that unconditional love helps them re-emerge and Blossom as the full moon they deserve to be so we have a a full moon a super moon it's always a full moon the eclipse but it's now not just a full moon it's the largest moon in its proximity to Earth and that's eclipsed that's on one end it seems like a very big trauma on the other end it also leads to a tremendous amount of Revelation and that's what we work toward to recognize the moon within you the mouths within you the dignity
the force inside of you that nobody can take from you because no one gave it to you and it's always there beating like a heartbeat that's always ticking waiting for you to embrace it that is the key to all of it you have to embrace your inner light now in many ways that light is a lot more powerful than the light of the sun the sun is a transmitter it has the fuel spiritually speaking it is the force that has all the energy to give and exude the Moon is a far more subtle far more
even romantic you can say far more mysterious Mystique because on one hand it gives off light but it's not the intensity of the Sun on the other hand the light is as I said is a receiving type of light but that's the beauty of life to be able to celebrate your vulnerability because the Moon is the vulnerable one the sun is the invulnerable one we have a son within us as well but that's not for tonight today's discussion the vulnerable part is how you deal with it and vulnerability is not a crime and vulnerability is
not a problem love true love is celebrating your vulnerability the vulnerability of the Moon being capable of being eclipsed the vulnerability of the Moon that it needs to receive the vulnerability of children who are dependent on their parents for love and nurturing and sustenance so even if there's something that's compromised know that Who You Are remains intact now if you have loving parents and everything is going well then on the contrary it nurtures you and builds that self-confidence but even if there's an eclipse never forget that you remain intact and even your formative years when
you're impressionable like the moon and receiving and absorbing ultimately that will serve you well so even if there's an eclipse you will emerge in full Glory that isn't just a promise it's the way we're wired what's sad is we don't always believe it in ourselves if you don't believe it you're running a marathon someone says you can do it you can do it then at some point you say I'm exhausted I can't do it you're no longer objective see the mere fact that you give up is what doesn't allow you to reach the finish line
that's why we need mentors we need coaches we need people who say no you could do it you could do it you have you have it within you you say I don't feel it your feeling is not what matters here now obviously you have to go at your pace and we don't there's we don't invalidate somebody's feelings that's why it's important to be sensitive and be caring and help someone go at their Pace but the key word is go you need to travel so maybe a spiral staircase the famous analogy of the balcantov where when
you go on a regular staircase you see the destination maybe many steps up spell stickers you don't see the destination you have to constantly make another Revolution with your back completely facing the other way and you may think that there is no destination I'll never reach there and before you reach the Apex the top you make another final turn completely faced the other way but you're the closest to the destination and you don't even know it and if you just see it through and you move forward you reach the place so is the confidence in
looking at the moon and seeing here's an eclipse it's a total eclipse of the moon a total eclipse even when it's a full super moon and yet and it's red the gefora the Simpson the concealment the restraint the covering and yet keep looking and it emerges same with our story it emerges at the moment you may lose sight that's why you need to remember before you enter that place before the eclipse and you need to have people who will remind you even during that clips and that's how we hold on and that's how we journey
and travel so the lesson from this is a tremendous lesson that affects every one of us because we all will go through our setbacks our difficulties our challenges the times when we will feel like we're in the shadows and there are times that will feel eclipsed and times that we feel on unappreciated misunderstood but the key is not to have self-pity the key is not to indulge in our own self uh pity key is not to marinate in your own misery but rather look at the picture and say this is a step in the process
and this step is leading to the beautiful moon that I am the Dignity of the mouth that each one of us deserves and has within us all the time I've personally seen people who've gone through difficult times in life some things that are just unspeakable and yet you look closely you could find the moon shining inside them sometimes they don't even know it they say not not me not in this lifetime it's absolutely not true it's absolutely possible now you may not see it that's why you need to have people you trust and you need
to have love because love the blueness of Love counters the redness of restraint and Justice and severities and you come to realize as the mystics explain that even in the red vura there lies even more energy because as I said before there's energy that flows forward like has said the blue energy but the energy of restraint when you recognize that the times when we're eclipsed comes from the root of rural roots from a force that conceals to conceal takes more energy than to reveal if you think of as a smart individual and you ask them
a question it's harder for them to not answer than to answer they have what to say but the exercise restraint and hold back that which you have of what you have to offer takes more energy so the capitalists explain and Hasidic discourses elaborate that the Divine force of God's reads to withhold takes more energy than two exude than to bestow but that energy is inverted think of it like a black hole a black hole has more energy than a regular star it's so powerful that the gravitational pull doesn't even allow light to escape so you
look at it's a black hole it's eclipsed by a force that's drawing again that's sucking its energy inward but imagine that energy is even stronger imagine you tap into that energy then you have even more energy than the energy that you see the light that you see so again we have to always look at it what is the potential where is it heading not what it looks like right now right now it looks like an eclipse right now it looks red right now it looks concealed but because of it it it elicits even a greater
strength when a person who's lived a life where they've always had enough to drink enough to eat they never experienced thirst they don't really appreciate necessarily what water is all about someone has gone through if a parched and desolate land and they've really experience thirst when they get water look at how they drink the water look how they appreciate it because with inconcealed in the black hole of the eclipse concealed in that the red you of the eclipse lies tremendous energy within the child that has been hurt lies a tremendous power that has not yet
been released and power can take the shape of anger can take the shape of frustration they can take the shape of bitterness why me could take the shape of a lot of things that are not positive because that's sometimes how it expresses itself but if you harness it and redirect it and channel it it takes the shape of turning into a beautiful powerful super moon the super you the real light that you have so how do you get there as I said you need to have that preparation before the journey to know that there's an
eclipse it's only a temporary and it only CA and it's only there to bring up better strength greater strength from us have people that are objective the more you learn about your soul and your own inner strengths the more you focus on that prayer we say every morning the soul you have given me is pure coming from the highest levels these are things that you hold on to for your dear life that help you get through these situations identifying your life skills you have talents with a natural or acquired and focus on them never allow
yourself to succumb to focus on negative what you're not how incapable you are how incompetent you are how looser you are if you have such feelings sit down and write okay I have those feelings here are some of my strengths and act on them do something it could be through writing it could be through music it could be through volunteering it can be through meeting people and helping people do things that Empower you that at the end of the day you come home you say I did something today that was an accomplishment now if you
move your mood be completely eclipsed you may be in a bad mood you may be not very confident but the action you're acting on what is really going on beneath their clips and that helps precipitate and allow the emergence of that super movement the lessons go on and on in the personal application of the idea but it's very clear that if you look at the Moon and study it especially events that have happened this week you have less lessons upon lessons that literally teach you about yourself reflect back to you what you're like and what
you're capable of and recognize the great potential that your moon carries and perhaps that's why God created a sun and moon in the first place you know we know they have their functions but they have another function they teach us things in this case the Moon is a great teacher and it's always there the same Moon that Moses saw in Egypt before the Jews left Egypt the same Moon that was there the fourth day of creation same went out history in the best of times and the worst of times that Moon that shines every night
when we look up into the sky it's still there as Bears witness Heaven and Earth bear witness the sun moon bear witness they bear witness that we have the capacity to endure anything we have the resilience and we have the power to become even stronger after a setback to take our weaknesses to we take our liabilities and turn them into great assets so confidence is necessary mentors and healthy objective people are necessary your own focus on your positivity necessary and understanding the deeper Dynamics including the mystical dynamics of the Moon in general and specifically the
eclipse that talmud says based on the story in the Bible the Bible says that God created two luminaries the Sun the Moon two great luminaries but then it says which is the great big aluminum area he designated for day daylight sunlight and Moira cotton the small luminary designated for a night so of course the obvious question is you just said they were both dead and they're both great had someone's one become greater big and great and one small so the Tama tells the story that the moon came to God and said you've placed two kings
in the heavens but you can't have a king with two crowns where you can't have one crown with two kings two kings with the crowd with one Crown you have to miss designate one leader so God said really okay I'll designate the son you go diminish yourself but the talmud continues and says the moon then God regretted that he caused the moon to be diminished she says every rashadish every new moon which is a reminder that the moon's waxing and waning that became a diminished luminary God says bring a offering to forgive me for forgiveness
God is asking forgiveness that I diminish them all so hundreds of pages have been written if not thousands what is going on here God needs forgiveness what happened what's Happening Here and the answer is because both Sun and Moon are great not necessarily they're great because they Shine the same amount of intensity the moon did not appreciate that it thought that it needs to have the same energy like the sun it was great initially because this is this was what's called the the energy of giving and the energy of receiving as I mentioned before takes
energy to receive the moon saw that as necessary not necessarily as a quality so God then said if that's the case you've already written your own verdict you see yourself as diminished so diminish yourself and you will not and and know that you are dependent now on the Sun now the moon was initially also a recipient but that was greatness and now the moon did not recognize the greatness it's like the students saying I want to be the teacher you want to be the teacher now recognize that you are subjugated to the teacher but that's
not the goal the goal is that that so-called setback should cause the moon to want to appreciate what it really is so God said bring your offering because I never meant to diminish the Moon I was just on the moon this is what you brought upon yourself let us now do healing with the capitalists call the tikkun the repair of the wound of the Moon the scar the wound the limp of the Moon and we do that by by honoring the new month the new moon by celebrating the moon sanctify the moon every month you
don't find that by the Sun there's some we only do it once in every every uh that every 29 years at the 28 years at 20. I'm confused it can move every 29 years yeah every 29 years because the moon so there's the concept of the blessing of the son but the moon every month so the Moose only becomes a thing we sanctify and it designates the holidays the cycles of the Moon the Sun designates the weak days sunset sunrise morning night it designates the sea the the Sun designates the the cycles of the year
but who designates to see the the seasons are designated by the Sun but who designates the holidays the 15th of the month is Passover the 15th of the month of circus other days are all designated by the sanctification of the moon in the times of the Temple there were witnesses that actually witnessed the new moon and based on that they designated the new moon the new month and that determined when the holidays would take place all by the moon this diminished Moon but the diminishment LED to appreciate its power not the power of pure fire
the power of quantity but the power of quality and therefore the moon now will ultimately as the prophet says become like the light of the Sun and it will ultimately rise to its true prominence again when the world is when we repair the wound what we appreciate that the light of receiving is as strong if not stronger than the light of giving now there are many lessons in this as well and I just I need to limit it obviously but I hope what I shared here is enough for each of us to apply to our
personal lives especially in the context of taking your weaknesses and seeing them the strengths that you can achieve that's the ultimate goal so may all be blessed with having the minimal amount of setbacks and and however when there will be one to understand and appreciate to see it through to see it as a springboard to catapult us to Heights and greatness that we can never have achieved without it the moon in general especially the eclipse of the moon in our personal lives and again anyone who's going through any particular difficulty and feeling weak God bless
you to have all the strength But realize that even those moments are part of the journey this is what we do at the meaningful Life Center hopefully can give strength resources share with each other and we always know welcome your questions your comments your feedback and you're giving us strength as well we're here every Wednesday this program is of course archived and accessible at any time feel free to write us share and we are all part of a larger Mosaic may we all do our part in bringing that light to this world whether it's the
light of giving or the light of receiving or it's this stage of Our Lives or that stage it's all part of that cycle everyone be blessed and I'll see you next Wednesday