It is a new week in the Counting of the Omer and this week's subject is all about Tiferet. As a refresher, Tiferet is beauty or compassion. Day one of week three is Chesed of Tiferet. This can be defined a couple of different ways. I am going to challenge you, because of our society and the pressures of it, from the direction of Beauty.
Without love, beauty is only a picture or a one dimensional image. With love, beauty is a multi-dimensional object that is able to reach out and become involved in the world around, in essence it becomes compassion. A second way to look at it is that without love, beauty is something we can get a very skewed perspective on. How many women abuse their own bodies or spend thousands of dollars on themselves all in order to look like some model in a magazine and then have to spend hours in therapy all because they couldn't achieve it? In the United States, especially, we worship beauty as if it were a god rather than worshiping God who is the maker of beauty!
If you look back you will see the definition of love is God. When you place God with beauty it will put beauty into its proper perspective. Beauty is not something physical we should seek, but something Godly. Beauty is all around us. God has given us more beauty than we can imagine if we are sensitive to the Spirit's voice. He will show us all the glorious beauty in the world if we will just take our eyes off ourselves long enough to see others and Him for a moment. Are you willing to look? Sometimes those things of beauty can only be seen with spiritual eyes.
Over the next 24 hours, rather than seeking the love of beauty the way the world does; why not seek the Love of Beauty from the Biblical perspective. Look around you at the beauty of God's creation. Seek out the beauty in the things He has given us and in His Torah.
Until tomorrow, Shalom!
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