for lailah

welcome, well come to the 36 th day of a season of peace,,. as the moon wanes and the temperature drops, let’s all get cozy and listen to an old hasidic tale of our soul’s conception and journey to birth supported by the angel (messenger) lailah…

it all begins in the roots of the tree of life where the soul is seeded and moves to the branches to ripen… when the soul falls to the ground, the angel lailah puts it in the mother’s womb serving as a midwife of souls… while the infant grows in the womb, lailah places a lighted candle at the head of the unborn infant, so he or she can see from one end of the world to the other and she teaches the unborn child the history of his or her soul…

when the time comes for the baby to be born, the angel extinguishes the light in the womb and brings forth the child into the world… in the instant the child emerges, the angel lightly strikes her finger to the child’s lips as if to say “shh,” which causes the child to forget everything learned in the womb and reminds us to listen to the deep self within, the soul, that always re-members…

may we all re-member our soul song and that “shhh” is to silence us so we can listen for el canto hondo, the deep self song…