Omer Counter countdown to Rosh Hashanah - it's the New Year for the Animals!

[David Seidenberg]

Did you know that Omer Counter counts down to Rosh Hashanah, from Malkhut sheb'Malkhut to Chesed sheb'Chesed? Get the app: neohasid.org/omer/apps

The teachings for tonight, August 23-24 -
Might within Splendor, Gevurah sheb'Hod, 1st day of Rosh Chodesh Elul (the end of Av), the New Year for the animals! 30 days til Rosh Hashanah!

Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth – our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structure to the howling of wolves and the honking of geese. To shut ourselves off from these other voices, to continue by our lifestyle to condemn these other sensibilities to the oblivion of extinction, is to rob our own senses of their integrity, and to rob our minds of their coherence. ~ David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, 22

The human species emerged enacting, dreaming, and thinking animals and cannot
be fully itself without them. ~ Paul Shepard, The Others

Who knows if the spirit of the children of Adam rises upward, and if the spirit of
the beast descends below, to the earth? ~ Ecclesiastes 3:21

Resources for the New Year for the animals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah_LaBehema

https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-years-day/for-domesticated-animals/the-council-of-all-beings-on-rosh-hashanah-labehemah/

https://www.neohasid.org/stoptheflood/council/

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/elul-is-judaisms-new-year-for-animals-heres-what-tradition-teaches-about-our-relationship-to-them

https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/184964?lang=bi