Tyler’s Torah Thoughts for 27 Tishri, 5785

“We live our lives as if it is stable. We try to build stable lives for ourselves, when in reality it is not stable.”

This is the theme today as we leave the month of Tishri and head into Cheshvan.

Tomorrow night, the energy with shift into the shadows of interference. We will begin to feel “blocked” in a lot of ways by the universe around us. The goal of this shadow is to develop our gift for teamwork. This is a true gift – and requires the ego to step aside.

We see stability in isolation. When we work with others, when we live with others, when we relate to others – interference comes into play.  Others not doing what we expect them to do. How we navigate this is crucial.

The prize here is synarchy – its a beautiful word – and I will speak more on it in the next few days. Feel free to google it.

Let go of a stable life. Freedom is accepting “what is” as a blessing. We can’t control what happens. We can only navigate it with the choice of bitterness or flow.

What are your thoughts?

Here’s my thoughts on the portion from last year:

Tyler’s Torah Thoughts for 2 Cheshvan, 5784
Parsha Noah: (Genesis 6:9- 11:32) 
Third Portion: Genesis 7:17- 8:14

So, today’s portion is the flood and the receding of the flood.  I have some good thoughts the past two years, and I want to summarize them; but first I wanted to reshare this link on the month of Cheshvan.  As today is the Second Day, I felt like this was a good reading to supplement our Torah study. 

Let’s now dig in. 

Here’s the main theme of today’s portion:

“We live our lives as if it is stable. We try to build stable lives for ourselves, when in reality it is not stable.”

This is the bitterness or flow we talked about yesterday.  We can be bitter our lives are unstable – or we can accept the flood as a blessing.  The choice is ours.  This is added to our learning so far. 

• The Path of Ascension begins with curiosity and not judgement
• If someone’s curiosity causes doubt and defensiveness, be curious about our own doubt and defensiveness and NOT their motives for curiosity.
• The tree of life is within us. Choose life within with curiosity and not judgment
• Learn to balance the comfort of stumbling, with the challenge of pushing ourselves towards spiritual growth.
• Let go of a stable life. Freedom is accepting “what is” as a blessing. We can’t control what happens. We can only navigate it with bitterness or flow.