Healing Well of Miriam

Netzach and Hod are called the Place of Counsel for the Heavenly Court.  They are the sefirot of Prophecy—frontside as foretelling (future events) and backside as forthtelling (understanding what’s to come based on what has already been).   Nothing happens in this world that is not first decided in Heaven’s Courts.  All the prophets of Israel operated from these sefirot.  The Name of Netzach is YHVH Tzvaot (Lord of Hosts), and Hod is Elohim Tzvaot (God of Hosts).  

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Netzach is “eternity” or “victory,” and we experience through “bitachon” (confidence).  We usually think of the need to have faith, but the real test of our faith is “bitachon”—do we truly have confidence in God?  Moses embodied this confidence when he went before Pharaoh, at the splitting of the Red Sea, and with every miracle he performed.  The first time Name YHVH Tzvaot  appears in the Tanakh (Bible) is in the prayer of Chanah when she prophetically prayed her son, Samuel, into the world.   Like Hod, Netzach is about transcendence. Chanah was connecting with the will of Heaven in a way that transcended her known world and was praying what came into her heart.   This was not merely hope—it was confidence.  A suggested meditation:

Beyond winning; beyond losing ~~ victory!