Friday, 20th of Tammuz, and Shabat, 21st of Tammuz, 5774

Friday is the third day of Week 42 and the forty-fifth day of the cycle of Yesod (Foundation), Tiferet shebeMalchut shebeYesod, Balance/Beauty within Kingship within Foundation.

Friday is also the fourth day of the fourteenth 22-day cycle of the year, related to the letter Nun Sofit (the final Nun). The following verse from Chapter 3 of the Book of Lamentations is connected to the fourth letter, the Dalet:

4. The tongue of the suckling child cleaves to his palate through thirst; the young children beg [for] bread, [but] no one breaks it for them.

ד. דָּבַק לְשׁוֹן יוֹנֵק אֶל חִכּוֹ בַּצָּמָא עוֹלָלִים שָׁאֲלוּ לֶחֶם פֹּרֵשׂ אֵין לָהֶם:

This verse can be interpreted positively as follows:

4. The tongue of the one that suckles in G-d cleaves. They waited in thirst. [Like] young children, they asked for  bread of horsemen. [They have reached a state] of "Nothingness" (Ayin, utter nullification).

Shabat is the fourth day of Week 42 and the forty-sixth day of the cycle of Yesod (Foundation), Netzach shebeMalchut shebeYesod, Victory/Endurance within Kingship within Foundation.

Shabat is also the fifth day of the fourteenth 22-day cycle of the year, related to the letter Nun Sofit (the final Nun). The following verse from Chapter 3 of the Book of Lamentations is connected to the fifth letter, the Heh:

5. Those who used to eat dainties are perishing in the streets; they that were reared on crimson clasp the dunghills.

ה. הָאֹכְלִים לְמַעֲדַנִּים נָשַׁמּוּ בַּחוּצוֹת הָאֱמֻנִים עֲלֵי תוֹלָע חִבְּקוּ אַשְׁפַּתּוֹת:

This verse can be interpreted positively as follows:

5. Those who eat dainties breathed in the streets; they that were reared on crimson clasp to their quivers.