Comments on: Define: Bless http://www.peelapom.com/prayers-tools-traditions/define-bless/ Earth-based Magickal Judaism, often known as Jewitchery - writings, rituals, midrash, magick, prayers, and more... Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: RSwan http://www.peelapom.com/prayers-tools-traditions/define-bless/#comment-22695 RSwan Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:32:58 +0000 http://www.peelapom.com/prayers-tools-traditions/define-bless/#comment-22695 this is an interesting topic. the first thing that popped into my mind as i read your topic... Bless... i thought of choosing Life and Death... Blessing and Cursing.... so from that i take bless to me a state of positivity... look upon with favor... so when we speak good of people we bless them... when we speak ill of people we curse them.... such as the american definition up there #5.... we bless and curse daily with our mouths, our thoughts.... perhaps not only the next time we say a bracha or a blessing upon something...but the next time we choose to either speak good or speak ill upon someone..... oh... so hard!! but so important... at least for me, the only one i can speak for.... thank you for this tidbit... RSwan this is an interesting topic.

the first thing that popped into my mind as i read your topic… Bless…

i thought of choosing Life and Death… Blessing and Cursing….

so from that i take bless to me a state of positivity… look upon with favor…

so when we speak good of people we bless them… when we speak ill of people we curse them….

such as the american definition up there #5….

we bless and curse daily with our mouths, our thoughts….

perhaps not only the next time we say a bracha or a blessing upon something…but the next time we choose to either speak good or speak ill upon someone…..

oh… so hard!! but so important…

at least for me, the only one i can speak for….

thank you for this tidbit…
RSwan

]]> By: Aron Gamman http://www.peelapom.com/prayers-tools-traditions/define-bless/#comment-22543 Aron Gamman Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:03:45 +0000 http://www.peelapom.com/prayers-tools-traditions/define-bless/#comment-22543 I agree. I think making blessings shows the inherent interdependent quality of being. We offer blessings to recognize the divine "above" us as well as the divine within us and within others. Any direction we travel, whether its inward, outward, upward, downward, leftward or rightward, we always encounter the divine. We can also find out own power by offering blessings as well as discovering the health of the humility might go along with that. I agree. I think making blessings shows the inherent interdependent quality of being. We offer blessings to recognize the divine “above” us as well as the divine within us and within others.
Any direction we travel, whether its inward, outward, upward, downward, leftward or rightward, we always encounter the divine.

We can also find out own power by offering blessings as well as discovering the health of the humility might go along with that.

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