Oil Of The Left & The Secret Of The Red Cow

Tazria-Metzora

some of the oil that is in his left hand ... Vayikra 14:27
מִן-הַשֶּׁמֶן, אֲשֶׁר עַל-כַּפּוֹ הַשְּׂמָאלִית

The oil in the priest's left hand pertains to oil produced by the 'left hand' path of the Divine Feminine.

Potential roots of the oil (השמן) from the gate of שם (the middle path):

שׁמן - nourish, eight (right hand path)
שׂמל - cover (as in kaparot), left protected side (left hand path)

In the priest's ritual, the oil must come from the left hand path, from the root שׂמל in contradistinction to the right hand root שׁמן. Importantly, a root traditionally believed to have given birth to the "oil root" שׁמן is also the root of neshamah, namely נשם meaning to breathe and to move air. Interestingly, the root נשם can also mean an impure creeper. We can see then, why the priest must use oil from the left hand (from the root שׂמל) as opposed to oil from the right hand (from the traditionally linked roots שׁמן and נשם) in this purity ritual. The left hand path's root will not give rise to an impure creeper.

Traditionally believed to be pure, the neshamah in this element of the ritual will enable introduction of impurity into the whole rite. Traditionally believed to be impure, the left hand in this element of the ritual makes pure.

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There Is No Plague Among Them

Ki Tisa

there is no plague among them ... Shemot 30:12
וְלֹא-יִהְיֶה בָהֶם נֶגֶף

Last night I dreamt a complicated and complex dream which is relevant to this week's upcoming parsha.

I stood in the top row of rows of prehistoric rows (like bleachers), out of the way of a coming stampede of ancient prehistoric mystical horses of great destructive power. The row where I stood was safely out of the path of the destructive ('wildly focused') horses, but the lower rows were not. The rows were crammed with people trying to escape the fate of being run over by the horses, which would soon arrive.

Across and blocking the track like a wall, immediately after yet joined to the end of the ancient rows, was a large dam-like gate (reminds me of the island gate to the village in the King Kong movie). These horses were giants like king kong. They would have to break through the gate to move on down the track into 'the world of known history', becoming transformed in the move from the 'ancient prehistoric mystical world' into the 'world of known history'.

Waiting in safety for the coming stampede of destructive horses, I noticed in the floor of the running track (below and in front of me) a crack break open. From the abyss beneath the surface of the crack, onto the track, a plague of whitish larvae-like forms [1] began to creep up. They spread toward the rows, spotting in a few places on the first fews rows. Then the horses came around the ancient bend in the track, trampling the first few rows and destroying everything in their path - including the plague (all of it), the crack itself (which was no more), and the gate (which had been broken open into) the 'world of history'. The gate was open, the path was clear, and the way was sealed against harm and hindrance.

When the horses moved through,
plague, harm and hindrance destroyed,
eight and twenty-two
through my waking mind, the words deployed.

Interestingly, yesterday I 'cracked the polish' on one of my fingernails unpacking the new black 3-drawer file cabinet I had purchased for my etsy shoppe WITCHCRAFTS by Liorah Lleucu. The fingernail itself (near where I am) was not cracked, only a protective coat of nail acrylic polish (separate from me) was cracked. The acrylic polish material can easily be fixed (like my shipping policies, which were troubling me until I changed them this morning since this dream).

Importantly, there is no plague among them - namely, there is no plague among the products which will be offered at WITCHCRAFTS, even the shipping policies are under the guidance of the Black Goddess. The entire array of the twenty-two Hebrew letters of creation have been uttered. The Black Goddess has decreed [2] it, and Her destructive horses have made it so.

Reversing the shoresh נגף (strike a blow, plague, injure, hinder) -

She closed the way and struck a blow
to the blow struck to close the way.

Footnotes:

[1] Vampiric and spiritually infective otherworld life forms created by humans through unintentional outbursts of negative emotional energy and/or through toxic interpersonal relationships. "The Feary student will encounter them, rest assured. Forewarned is forearmed." From The Feary Teachings, by Orion Foxwood.

[2] eight, through Binah and Hod

Ketoret Samim And Ketoret Zarah

Tetzaveh

~ The difference between men and women. ~

On it Aaron shall burn aromatic incense of sweet spices ... Shemot 30:7
קְטֹרֶת סַמִּים

(Aaron) shall not offer strange incense on it ... Shemot 30:9
קְטֹרֶת זָרָה

The difference between the two incenses is this:

Ketoret Samim (aromatic incense of sweet spices). The word used for 'aromatic sweet spices' is סמים, from the two-letter gate סם. From this gate come the shorashim (roots):

סמך - support, be close, clinging, laying hands on (as in ordination)
סמל - forming, set form (solidify, in opposition to disintegrate form)
סמם - concentrate substance (to bring into materiality), potent spice
סמן - designate, marking (as in simanim meelta, significant omens)

Ketoret Zarah (strange incense). The word used for 'strange' is זרה, from the two-letter gate זר. From this gate come the shorashim (roots):

זרב - flow (loosen form, as opposed to solidify), combine/separate
זרה - scatter, winnowing out, generating wind, set apart
זרח - east (direction and elemental), open seed, radiate light
זרע - arm or limb that sets in motion

Considering the gates which distinguish the two incenses, we can understand that ketoret samim function to support steams of power that incarnate or materialize existence, while ketoret zarah functions to disintegrate, move and recombine those streams of power.

Thus, upon the altar of the tabernacle, Aaron may not offer incense designed to evoke the powers of disintegration, dematerialization, scattering or winnowing. In Torah, Aaron as the high priest of the Divine Masculine is to function as an agent of pure chesed (lovingkindness) to support integration, materialization and bringing together.

The functions of disintegration, loosening, winnowing and recombining rightfully belong to high priestess of the Black Goddess. Only the high priestess of the Divine Feminine is authorized to function as an agent of pure gevurah (strength), and to offer ketoret zarah upon the altar of the tabernacle.

Related entry - Messengers of the Black Goddess