Healing Well of Miriam

B”H

29 Elul 5781 / September 6, 2021

This is the last day of the year 5781, closing a year and the opening a new one.  Each year we contemplate the previous year and think about the goals and aspirations for the upcoming one.  This last year has witnessed numerous chaotic events on a global scale, and many have suffered personal loses and setbacks.  Overall, we could say there has been a general disharmony worldwide.  Yet, as we look at Rosh Hashana, we are reminded that the fate of all is decided in Heaven’s Courts.  We say the Books are opened on Rosh Hashana, and on Yom Kippur the decision is sealed.  With this in mind, it is good to realize that the ultimate of justice is upheld in that Court, regardless of how it may appear in this world and say: “I have perfect faith in the judgments of Heaven’s Courts.”

Far from being a fatalistic approach, this attitude opens our hearts to ask our role in Heaven’s purpose in the world.  Each of us was created a unique individual soul with a purpose only we can achieve.  Created in the image of our Creator, we, like our father, Adam, are charged with the responsibility of participating in the Creation, caring for the Garden.  Only humans, created as both terrestrial and celestial beings, have the ability to actively participate in this process. 

Throughout the Creation story in the first chapter of Genesis, it is stressed that the creatures were brought forth “each according to its kind”—animals, birds, fish, plants, trees, and even the minerals.  Each was brought into existence through the spoken word of the Creator.  This speech set a vibration that manifested the creature’s existence, and that vibration continued to be linked to the identity of that particular creature.  Thus, the words, “each according to its kind,” take on tremendous significance in the Creation story.  Later, Adam is told to name the animals.  This shows the creative ability he was given, made in the image of the Creator.  He was able to understand the essence of each creature on a spiritual level, in a similar manner to the physical definition of dna code.  Each creature has a very unique essence that distinguishes its kind from any other.  This understanding, and the preservation of the various species, was a sacred responsibility entrusted to Adam and his children throughout the ages. 

All of the vibrations of the various creatures in the world and, indeed, in the very cosmos, sets up a harmonious symphony—each with its own unique song of praise to the Creator.  Yet, what happens when something disrupts that vibration?  What happens when the creature’s unique spiritual root is somehow compromised?  What happens when someone decides he can improve on nature, by, for example, injecting the gene of an Arctic fish into a tomato to make it more frost-resistant?  Is the tomato’s vibration still that of a tomato? 

We have many genetically modified plants and animals in the world today.  Mostly, people have celebrated this as scientific progress.  Companies like Monsanto have argued that genetic modification to bolster crop production has been necessary to stave off hunger in an over-populated world.  Unfortunately, however, these crops have very limited nutritional value. The experimentation does not stop there.  In the research against disease in animals and humans, new strains of deadly pathogens have not simply been discovered, but have been created, resulting in new diseases and making pre-existing diseases more deadly.  This is exactly what the world is now facing with Covid-19.  It was not a natural mutation of a pre-existing virus; it was a genetic modification in a laboratory for which someone now holds a patent.   

I know all this sounds like a far cry from a happy new year’s greeting.  Yet this is not news to anyone; it’s the world in which we are currently living.  If this is all I had to say, however, I would not be writing this at all.  Remember I said we all come into the world with a unique purpose of our soul?  Remember I told you how, as children of Adam, we have a responsibility as creative beings?  Remember the mantra:  “I have perfect faith in the judgments of Heaven’s Courts”?… because there, all scenarios have been seen far in advance, and the cure for every illness or ailment is already in the world.  We are far, far from hopeless or helpless.   

The world came into being as a vibration, until it set the universe into a symphony.  Now there’s discord and disharmony from the damage done to the spiritual roots that ever connect each entity to the Creator.  This can be healed and set right on a vibrational level.  We consciously add our song to that of the universe.  How?  First, we have to ask that question in Heaven’s Courts.  We petition, asking exactly what each of us may do, or say, to lift our soul’s healing vibrational energy.  I am asking, and challenging, each one of you to pray and meditate through the month of Tishrei for the healing of the vibration of the earth and all her creatures.  May each one of these be reconnected to, and strengthened in, his spiritual root.  May the disharmony and chaos in the cosmos be brought back into harmonious order.  May the children of Adam awaken to our Adamic legacy and consciousness.

May you have a sweet and wonderful new year!

Miriam Leah