Ritual Immersion Order (Mikvah)

by UrbnTbone

Here are some visualizations for ritual immersion.

First visualize the living A"Bh name (Miluy yod"in, 72, the root of the mikvah).

Then get through this process:

ALPh HeH YOD HeH (Machshavah, roof of mikvah)

YOD HeH VaV HeH (Kol, walls)

ALPh DaLeTh NUN YOD (Dibbur, pool floor)

Ata Gibor Leolam Adoneye AGL"A (gevuroth, "exorcism")

Naaseh M'Shem AGL"A Shem AL"D (melt alph-Gml,4, into Dlth). Visualize AL"D while immersed.

Then there are two versions: HaARIZaTsa"L, and BeSh"T

AR"I: interweave Alph Heh Yod Heh with AL"D the simple way A A He La Yo Da He BeSh"T this way:

AL"PH(Gmt.111) Aleph(1) He"H(10) Lamed(30) YO"D(20) He"H Daleth(4)

Arizal is simpler, I can't figure the Besht version point, probably some tsaddikim oral tradition.

The kosher mikvah has the measurements in space and content, that enforce these meditations into a physically permeating stream. 40 Sea"h, 5760 revi'ith, etc... etc... This is the concept of Bokea' Ya"m, the splitting of the re"d se"a, the drawing down of (cleansing) light all through the chaining down of the worlds, to your condition wherever you are standing, in a way of return to the foetal stage, where you are in the womb of Binah, connected like the foetus in the mother's womb, thus purified from any acquired defilement.

Another way to put it: The only way to kosherize clay vessels is to put them back into the oven at the same temperature it took for fabrication. If you put suddenly a very dirty dish, it may burst together with the desintegrating dirt. It may take some patience.

This is the meaning of Yom Kippur too. Once a year the root of the soul reveals into all levels and provides atonement, since at these levels there is no room for blemish.

The same when you learn Kabalah the right way, the levels reached don't take blemishes, so either your vessel bursts - if you don't know what you are touching, or it is renewed and purified(kosherized) - if you are sincerely committed and devo. We are devo.

Rabbi Akiva entered in peace, and returned in peace.

PA"I HT"Ch SaE"L YL"Y LA"V