From Cantor Lee: With Thanksgiving this past week, gratitude and blessings has certainly been a theme. As Rabbi David has shared previously the rabbis put into place that we say 100 blessings a day.
This helps us to align with the Divine part of us and live in a higher consciousness. The daily practice of being in the higher state also helps us more easily navigate through difficult circumstances.
We received some questions about the 100 blessings so here is further information:
From Rabbi David: It is taught that in the time of King David, 3,000 years ago, a plague broke out killing 100 people every day. Realizing that the plague had a spiritual cause, the sages of that time instituted a "measure for measure" response: the saying of 100 blessings each day. Once implemented, the plague stopped.
Each blessing was said to save a soul from a plague reminding us that blessings are also powerful spiritual remedies to fight plagues, or any disease as well as to preserve life. They of course also help us have a spiritually fulfilled life.
Our life is like a tug of war between our negative experiences and the positive ones. Our negative experiences are very powerful and can pull us down to a negative outlook on life, even despair and the inability to function properly.
Reciting blessings is a wonderful way to appreciate the secret gift of life. They are actually a portal to the Infinite and have been used as such for thousands of years.
It’s like “calling in the calvary” to effectively transmute any negativity that may be within us.
There is a misconception however about the way a blessing works. The general formula which usually starts with “Baruch Atah Adonai,” “Blessed are you Adonai (G-D)” clearly indicates that while we are the ones who bestow the blessing we are actually blessing G-D for the item being blessed whether it is food, nature or a special event.
With people we directly ask G-d to bless them such as May G-d bless you and bring you peace.
However you say a blessing, it all counts as part of the 100 per day!
Shalom, Rabbi David & Cantor Lee
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