
Contributor(s):
David Seidenberg,
neohasid.org and
Noam Sienna
Shared on ט״ו בתשרי ה׳תשע״ג (2012-09-30) — under the following terms:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:
Art & Craft, Sukkot
Tags:
Ancestors,
archetypes,
sefirot,
קבלה kabbalah,
spirits,
North America,
אושפיזין ushpizin,
21st century C.E.,
58th century A.M.,
ecoḥasid,
Avot and Imahot,
in the merit of our ancestors,
אושפיזתא Ushpizata,
Prayers inside sukkot
The essential idea of the liturgy of Ushpizin is to invoke the energies of the seven lower Sefirot in the proper order, so that Shefa, blessing and sustenance, can be drawn down into the world. This is the essence of Kabbalistic liturgy, and a liturgy of the imahot would only make sense if it were to follow that pattern. That means we have the playfully serious task of finding a stable order for the imahot where no clear order exists. . . .