Friday, August 22, 2014

Friday, 26th and Shabat, 27th of Av, 5774

Friday is the third day of Week 47 and the thirty-first day of the cycle of Malchut (Kingship), Tiferet shebeHod shebeMalchut, Balance/Beauty within Glory/Acknowledgement within Kingship.

Friday is also the seventeenth day of the fifteenth 22-day cycle of the year, related to the letter Peh Sofit (the final Peh). Although this chapter also has 22 verses, it is not openly an acrostic. However, there is a way to rearrange the verses. The following verse (8) from Chapter 5 of the Book of Lamentations is connected to the seventeenth letter, the Peh:

16. The crown of our head has fallen, woe to us, for we have sinned.

טז. נָפְלָה עֲטֶרֶת רֹאשֵׁנוּ אוֹי נָא לָנוּ כִּי חָטָאנוּ:


Shabat is the fourth day of Week 47 and the thirty-second day of the cycle of Malchut (Kingship), Netzach shebeHod shebeMalchut, Victory/Endurance within Glory/Acknowledgement within Kingship.

Shabat is also the eighteenth day of the fifteenth 22-day cycle of the year, related to the letter Peh Sofit (the final Peh). Although this chapter also has 22 verses, it is not openly an acrostic. However, there is a way to rearrange the verses. The following verse (8) from Chapter 5 of the Book of Lamentations is connected to the eighteenth letter, the Tzadik:

6. We have stretched out our hands to Egypt [and to] Assyria to get enough food.

ו. מִצְרַיִם נָתַנּוּ יָד אַשּׁוּר לִשְׂבֹּעַ לָחֶם:
Obs: Chapter 5 of Lamentations works as an acrostic if you take the three verses that begin with 'Al, עַל , and apply them as above for the letter Gimmel, Dalet and Samech (which is an exception). Furthermore, for the letter Tet, take the first letter of the second word in verse 13. Also, for those verses for which the first letter appears in more than one verse, use only one verse and take the second letter of the remaining verses

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