Miri
Title: Nistar
Gender: Female
Age: Ageless
Sun Sign: Cancer
Chinese Sign: Water Tiger
Location: Here and Now, Many Realms
About Me:
Wife, mother, aunt, sister, daughter, (until recently, granddaughter), niece (a very recent discovery), friend, lover, student, teacher, peer…
Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron. In Hebrew, the name has many allusions to water. Water is our primary connection to the supernal Garden. “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden” (Genesis 2:10). The Talmud tells us that this river that emerged from Eden is the ultimate source of all water in the world (Becharos 55a). King David further reveals that it is this river of “Edonecha” (Your Eden) by which mankind drinks from G-d (Psalm 36:9, or 8 in some translations, one of the many verses an observant Jew recites upon wrapping the head and body in the tallis at the start of each new day).
by Barbara Holender, in All the Women Followed Her, ed. Rebecca Schwartz (Rikudei Miriam Press, 2001), p. 37.
Due to the merits of Miriam, a mysterious well, created on the eve of the first Sabbath, accompanied the children of Israel in the desert.
It followed her everywhere
like a lover, easing us to rest,
springing from hidden places
in our wanderings.
Always, we were thirsty. Angered
by our wailing, she'd stamp her feet.
Even from the pools of her heelprints
we drank.
Once in anguish
she beat the rocks with her bare hands
again and again, weeping.
Water gushed, cleansing her blood,
soaking her hair, her robe.
She cupped her hands, rinsed her mouth,
spat; she splashed, she played.
Laughing, we filled our bellies.
She was the one we followed,
who knew each of us by name.
Healing rose from her touch as drink
from the deep, as song from her throat.
She was the well. In our hearts
we called her not Miriam, bitter sea,
but Mayim, water.
Upon G-d's miraculous rescue of the children of Israel from the pursuing Egyptian army by splitting the Red Sea, Miriam leads the women in joyous singing and dancing in praise to G-d:
”Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambourine in her hand; and all the women followed her with tambourines and dances. And Miriam called to them: 'Sing to G-d, for He is most exalted; horse and rider He cast in the sea…'” (Exodus 15:20-21).
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We are not human beings having a spirtual experience,
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~Teilhard de Chardin
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
~William Blake
~Marcel Proust
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- Tikkun Olam
- Dveikut (union with G-d)
- Help others draw close to G-d
- Emulate my namesake
- To live life b'simchah (with a joyful attitude)
- Be here now
- Cause no harm
- Equanimity
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