Shabat, 6th of Av, 5774

Shabat is the fourth day of Week 44 and the eleventh day of the cycle of Malchut (Kingship), Netzach shebeGevurah shebeMalchut, Victory/Endurance within Might/Discipline within Kingship.

Shabat is also the nineteenth day of the fourteenth 22-day cycle of the year, related to the letter Nun Sofit (the final Nun). The following verse (19) from Chapter 3 of the Book of Lamentations is connected to the nineteenth letter, the Kuf:

19. Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

יט. קַלִּים הָיוּ רֹדְפֵינוּ מִנִּשְׁרֵי שָׁמָיִם עַל הֶהָרִים דְּלָקֻנוּ בַּמִּדְבָּר אָרְבוּ לָנוּ:

This verse can be interpreted positively as follows:

19. Our pursuers were lighter (easier) from [the fact that we had] eagles of the heavens (a reference to Tzadikim) on mountains (a reference to our forefathers); they burned for us (in prayer) in the wilderness, they lay in wait for us.  (Alternatively, they cared/took responsibility for us, Arvu with an Ayin)