Jewish meditation #2 ● Chedvah breathing and the sefirot ● Harav Yitzchak Ginsburgh

[Music] but the reason that we should be doing the breathing today is coming down here this morning to San Diego we were coming on Route 405 which is equals Nima breathing and uh and equal the let there be a firmament as we said that this is the one firmament whose name is actually firmament rakia so in particular that saying the second of the sayings of the explicit sayings of creation you he let there be a perament equals bread Shima 45 no this now is a we're continuing now the the letters the letters belong to that which is explicitly called ra the second the second from the bottom and as we said the letters begin with the AL that represents the air of breath the spirit of breath and here we have an A a very practical exercise of breathing that we can conceive and try to integrate all of this uh all of the information that we've uh given over just now as told cabala breathing the breathing process has four stages to it all of it takes place as a cycle within the mind as it were within the head even though the air goes down into the lungs and then is goes back up to be to be processed and to be sent to its respective limb in order to arouse its respective sense the four first stages of breath are sh which means inhaling the first word is sh means to inhale same as what as no sh means to inhale it also means to Aspire towards to desire to Aspire that as a physical process a part of breathing it means to inhale then comes blma blma means to hold to hold the air to hold one's breath this is the word one of the basic words in the word of each one of the T is called a hold each one hold itself controls itself well defines itself that's called BMA then comes n which is to Exhale and then comes which literally means rest and rest means that before one begins the cycle an new there is a moment or a few moments of rest in between so this is a cycle a four stage process in the this is this is this is D and this is means that it creates a cycle like this from ker the Sha is in at the level of will aspiration it's CER Point number one then it goes to the power to hold the power to hold is then the exhalation is dot under the inhalation and the rest which is opposite the opposite the the holding of the breath is Bina which is is called the world to come the world of rest and then one goes back to Aspire a new which is to will a new to will a new reality a new phase of life every inhalation is an act of will of aspiration aspiring to achieve a new level of life that's the way it works why does it work like this because the basic verse that breathing is based on the whole T the very last verse of Psalms that reads every soul and say don't read it soul but read it every single Breath of Life shall praise God and what name is used there for God UD K UD and he the first two letters of the four letters only those two letters are quoted and those two letters are the letters of Mind of so from here we learn that the whole process of breathing is a cycle around the two letters UD and this is the and this is the but this is the coat of the Y the crown above the Y that's where it begins from and this is the lower pathway called the of the Y when you write a yud if you'll see here the ud has a higher point and it has a a lower pathway it's called a at the bottom that connects it to the hay so actually all three first stages of the are all the elements of the Y the coats of the Y and the body of the Y and the field the the lower pathway of the that connects it to the the the rest at the end is the itself and so every breath is an expression and a praise of all right now there many many hints about these words and what they mean that we will not now go into so now the question is in order to make this into a viable practice we have to give some K some Rhythm to the process and for many reasons again which we will not now be able to go into completely just give some little glimpses the basic Rhythm and this does not say how long is each beat it's just a proportion of Beats the Beats can be longer and then the whole breath becomes longer they can be shorter and then the whole breath process the whole cycle becomes Sher but the ratio the proportion of the beats that one counts to himself as it were until he begins to breathe it without having to count just naturally are 8 to 4 to 6 to 5 which spells out the word which is about is [Music] joy [Music] no