Week 5: Hod – Humility/Devotion:

Omer counting day 31.

Beauty – Humility (the Beauty/Harmony/Compassion side of Humility) Tiferet – Hod in Hebrew.

Humbleness is not an excuse to hide and remain neutral in the face of wickedness, but it’s the ability of being able to change a wicked society, nation, or situation into its hidden godly purpose through your character of humility.

Examine your humility and see if beauty, harmony and compassion are in balance and spiritually united with your humility.

The ability to be able to attract others to the qualities of your moral standards, and to make others pick interest in the things you do, with out forcing, and fighting for recognition.

The secret behind this influence and its physical attraction is hidden in within the beauty of a soul that has learnt how to harmonize (to bring in one accord) these three elements of a human soul (1: Discipline, 2: Compassion, 3: and Humility).

The capacity of being able to draw closer someone that is in opposition with your ways of doing things, to the extent that he himself will start to believe, to defend and to support your ways, this ability lies in within your humility.

Humility in it’s beauty is not compromise or lack of being able to fight and put up an argument so that you may prove your point, but it’s the knowledge and wisdom of understanding that there are battles in life we fight and win through the act of humility (submission, or humbleness).

Ask yourself:

Is it much easier for me to fight (to argue, to complain, to condemn, and to act mean) against those who are hindering me from getting what I want?

Or am I also able to act in humility (to submit, to be willing to listen, to learn and obey) for the sake of achieving my goals?

Exercise of the day:

In the situations where you feel challenged to fight and compete so that you may prove your point,

pray to God that He may give you more grace to able to handle such situations with humility (willing to Listen, learn, submit and obey).

Next: Read the prayer for omer day 31…