Yesod of Gevurah – “Breaking through barriers” | Counting the Omer - Rabbi Anava | #sefirathaomer

And the whole week we're talking about about the strength that we have in our body, in our soul. Yesterday we were talking about the hidden strength that needs to be revealed and come out to the surface. Last week we talked about Yesod is about creating connections or what is called in college breed that I go into a covenant with somebody. In our generation it's not so common that people go into covenants. People might go into an agreement, but the covenant that we are familiar with is when people get married. This is in Hebrew in it's called breed it's a covenant of marriage that we love each other. We want to spend the rest of our life together, but without this covenant the love will not sustain. Maybe we will love each other forever, but it's not going to create a relationship. The fact that we do a covenant or we come into Islam, we get married then it has the ability last week we talked about it that is the hook that hooks the two souls together. Now there are many types of breed thought or thought that we go between one person to another. You can look at it also in the in a person does a business deal or you go and you buy a building there's a transaction. This is all types of breed that I get in some type of an agreement. We have to constantly be in a motion that we do what's called a breed that I go into a covenant with another person. Now Based on nature or how nature works in any time that I will come to some type of a connection with another person right away there's going to be what's called a barrier something that will stop me from getting connected to the next person. Whether it's marriage, whether it's business, there's always going to be something natural that it's not going to go so smooth. Most people, when they are engaged, when they're dating, it's not smooth. It's not so obvious that that's the person that I want to marry. Some people are lucky. They go on a date, they say, "That's the person. No question here." But even in that case, there's still going to be all sorts of barriers or that will stop them. The family will get involved. Now, this is going to happen. That's going to arouse. There's always going to be some type of a uh maxum or you can call it a speed bump that you have to slow down, go on it very cautiously, and you have to go over it. So, don't only focus on necessarily the covenant of marriage or something big. Even me just communicating with another person. In order for me to break this barrier both in the spiritual and the physical, cuz sometimes these barriers are physical. And sometimes the barriers will be spiritual. In order for me to break this type of barrier, then you need you need strength. The that's the hook. will be translated to I mean even though this is a foundation but the Kabbalistic approach to is breath. Now, when you connect the two, you have to go over it. This will be the power to remove any type of obstacles in your life. So, not only today that you want to focus on it, but this is the that will allow me in my life to bring two opposites together to overpower obstacles in my life. And like I said, in order to move an obstacle, you don't break the obstacle. You don't break the the barrier. This is a barbaric way to use it. You rather jump over it.