The Seven Attributes: Meditating when Counting the Omer

If you are learning Kabbalah you ought

to think of the omer as leading to thought.

There are seven attributes of the divine

but as sides of ourselves

They are yours and mine.

At one end is virtue,

the other is vice;

One way is real cool and the other’s not nice.

You got chesed – that’s love

Gevurah –is power

Tiferet is glory

and Netzach is triumph.

Y’got hod and yesod for beauty and romance

And for number seven Malchut is the king.

One – chesed

Two – gevurah

Three – Tiferet

Four – Netzach

Hod and yesod for beauty and mmmhmmmh

And number seven Malchut is the king.

But here is the thing.

While each attribute sounds so righteous and strong

Take it too far and it all can go wrong.

Chesed is love – but it can be lust;

Gevurah – respect – turns to fear without trust

Tiferet can stand for compassion and pride

indulgence can be its other side.

Nezach is winning cause you did it right

But organize too much and you’re too uptight.

With hod you may find your understanding of beauty

take it too far and you’ve got vanity.

And they say yesod’s about intimacy

can be loyalty or promiscuity.

And finally Malchut is majesty,

but leadership can turn to obstinacy.

Well each of the seven is given a week

but if yet higher consciousness is what you seek

you will start with one attribute and then combine

with each of the other ones all down the line.

The first week you think about chesed they tell

but then you consider the others as well.

So chesed with chesed makes love within love,

the next day – gevurah’s – the power in love.

the next day – tiferet – where love contains glory

then chesed with netzach – well you get the story.

The second week is ruled by the next attribute

that’s gevurah with chesed on down to malchut

Tiferet’s the ruler of omer week three

and it’s matched with the other ones serially.

Each day is two attributes, that is the way

You meditate through the forty-nine days.