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Miri : Nistar Miri's Profile

Miri

is 
being 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).


Miriam's Well

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.


Miriam's Song

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).


You may be interested in my Amazon.com reviews or my Wikipedia account.  Namaste, and shalom, salaam, shanti, maluhia, heiwa, paz…

dharma wheel        Earth         Tao

We are not human beings having a spirtual experience,
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~Teilhard de Chardin

 Now I seek to lead back the Self within me to the All-self.
~dying words of Plotinus

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
~William Blake

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust



    
 

~ Amor fati ~


Member Since: Thursday, June 01 2006

Last Visit: 8 days ago.

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Goals

  • 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

My Friends:

Miri has many friends!
57 of them are here at Gaia

~Matthew : Youthful Maturity
Youthful Maturity
Desmond : light
light
SantMat_Mystic_(James) : SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com
SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com
Metta : metaphorical longshoreman
metaphorical longshoreman
VeganTriathlete : Hopeful Change Agent
Hopeful Change Agent
MsCapriKell : Intuitive Oracle
Intuitive Oracle
Breeze : Lucid Dreamer
Lucid Dreamer
Brian : PhilosophersNotes.com
PhilosophersNotes.com
rysa : Wayshower - goldring.wetpaint.com
Wayshower - goldring.wetpaint.com
Adrianus : I am Spirit, You are Spirit, All is Spirit, and All is Well
I am Spirit, You are Spirit, All is Spirit, and All is Well
Prashant : Seeker
Seeker
John : Dominant Muse
Dominant Muse
Nadroj : Dreamer/Schemer
Dreamer/Schemer
Carly : skydancer
skydancer
Alex Chua : Clarity Coach
Clarity Coach
Robert Vibert : Real Personal Growth
Real Personal Growth
Zentertainment Talk Radio : Composer.Musician.Producer.Radio
Composer.Musician.Producer.Radio
Amadon : Love is
Love is
Rainbow Warrior : Rainbow Warrior
Rainbow Warrior

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