The Omer: Week 7, Malchut (KB)

Today, we enter the last of the seven weeks of the Omer, corresponding to the Sefira of Malchut (Kingdom). While all the other levels we have discussed during this Omer are concealed from the five senses, Malchut is actually the physical world that we live in. It is everything that is manifested. The purpose of Creation, the transformation of potential to actual, the exposure of the hidden, and materialization of the immaterial are all contained in this level of existence. The force of the Desire to Receive for the Self Alone is awakened in the Sefira of Malchut. This force, also known as the “body consciousness,” is the insatiable drive within us to take and take and never be filled. With respect to humans, this force is greed. With respect to the nature, this force is gravity. Because of this force, there is a duality within Malchut that does not exist in the rest of the Sefirot. It is in Malchut that we experience the battle of good and evil, the struggle for existence. For this reason, the biblical chariot for Malchut is King David, a fighter and military leader. At The Kabbalah Centre, we explain that all of humanity descended from Adam, and in each generation we are correcting a different aspect of him. According to the Midrash, the souls of earlier generations were greater and on a higher spiritual level than those of our current generation. For that reason, those earlier generations were collectively responsible for correcting Adam’s head, neck, heart and so forth. The generation that we are living in is the generation appointed to correct the “ekev” (the heel) of Adam. The heel correlates with the Sefira of Malchut because it is the lowest point of the body, just as Malchut is the lowest of the Ten Sefirot. The news today is full of chaos: natural and unnatural turmoil, fights, wars, and a myriad of other disasters and violations of human rights and dignity. All of this is part of the dirt of the heel, the garbage of the earth, and we, fortunately or sometimes unfortunately, are the garbage sweepers. Our job is to make these difficult corrections; to elevate the sparks from the lowest levels of existence. Because we are the souls that are incarnated here on Earth at this time, we are the ones who are responsible to do this work. Every time we manage to truly go outside of ourselves for another and reveal spiritual Light, every time we manage to take responsibility and correct something within ourselves, we are doing this work of the heel, impacting the whole of Creation This week, the final week of the Omer, as you face whatever it is that is before you, remember that our role as individuals is to take that part of our being that needs healing, and through our spiritual effort and transformation bring it into wholeness, returning to at-one-ment with our true and Eternal Source.