Breath of God - Shofar/Trumpet blast

Today, September 4, 2024 is the first day of Elul, the day the High Holiday period begins. In the Ashkenazi tradition, during this month of soul searching, the shofar, or ram’s horn, is blown each morning except on the Sabbath, to call upon listeners to begin the difficult process of repentance.

The shofar represents the hollow womb of the New Year that births us and the fragile, finite breath within us. An ancient midrash tells that even before Creation, the Divine creates fire, water, and wind to aid in the task of making the world. Each gives birth to a different entity. While fire and water both give birth to physical entities (light and darkness), wind gives birth to a spiritual entity: wisdom. Now in the season before Creation, we call on the wind of the shofar to birth wisdom in us.

In Eastern culture, the ram’s horn is blown at the coronation of the king. With the shofar blast, we acclaim the Infinite as our sovereign, rather than any human power. Rosh Hashanah, in a sense, is an annual coronation feast; Elul marks the festivities leading up to the coronation.

WAKE UP YOUR SOUL

According to Maimonides, the Shofar that we blow every day during Elul serves as a spiritual alarm clock. He writes that the blowing of the Shofar sends the following message: “Wake up slumberers from your sleep and sleepers from your sleep: Examine your deeds, repent and remember your creator.”

RUACH HAKODESH

As the season of summer shades into winter, we have an open SKY GATE with the RUACH HAKODESH in the wind. In Judaism, it refers to the divine force, quality, and influence of God over the universe and God's creatures. Ruach is the Hebrew word used in scripture for the breath of God. It is wind, Spirit, life. It's not so much a physical force but an essence—God's essence that sustains life.

Genesis 1:2: Ruach elohim m'rachefet al pnei tahom is translated as "a divine wind, or holy spirit, or wind of God, or God's breath".

Genesis 1:2 “And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit (Ruach) of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”

In the Bible, the Hebrew term ruach ha-kodesh (רוח הקודש) is used to refer to the Holy Spirit. In the story of Adam and Eve, the Bible describes God breathing into Adam's nostrils, which animated him and gave him life:

Genesis 2:7: “God ‘breathed into his nostrils the breath of life’ and created Adam from the Earth. “

The Book of Wisdom: God "breathed a living spirit into them"

Synchronicities for me this week have literally been things lining up with the breath of life. Sunday started a weekly breath work class with Chris, yesterday I finally started Qi Gong, today Aaron surprised us and released the schedule for the New Abundance Challenge (and opened registration) the schedule includes a live breath work in the month of ELUL and then just now while I was laying in bed with a bad headache I came across this Instagram post and had to get out of bed and write this post.

YHWH – This is the way Yahweh is spelled in Hebrew traditions. You have to watch this Instagram post! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C91aap9OcIG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This month stay aware of the breath of God in your life. Whether it is the air that you breathe that gives you life, or the essence and spirit of the father of the universe, or it is in the wind in the trees, think about it in a more tangible way. This might be a good time for you to look into breathwork as well.

This is the first breathwork session I ever did:

Somatic Release Breathwork with Aaron https://www.skool.com/highvibetribe/classroom/d083895c?md=cde6131db09b4618b241226df784c00b

Another awesome synchronicity, that I don't even think

@Victor Oddo

realizes, is in his new Youtube video about the New Moon in September, he talks about a client of his who plays the trumpet! In this video, Victor prophetically calls us all forth on this new moon to blow our trumpet, in perfect alignment with the SHOFAR blast in the month of Elul! What is your trumpet, what is your zone of genius? What is God breathing on in your life?

https://youtu.be/4U-XOjUIhz8?si=b8ifjE-2wtkL-KEp

ELUL Series:

New Moon - Elul 5784 https://www.skool.com/highvibetribe/new-moon-elul-5784?p=4f17ffc5

Glitch in the Matrix https://www.skool.com/highvibetribe/glitch-in-the-matrix?p=92a2d644

We are the HIGH VIBE TRIBE - New Moon/Rosh Chodesh https://www.skool.com/highvibetribe/we-are-the-high-vibe-tribe-new-moon?p=70204187

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Breath of God - Shofar/Trumpet blast