Kosi Revayah/My Cup is Overflowing Ps 23
This past month, on July 2, I co-led a Jewish meditative gathering at the Temple with Sheila Yocheved Katz. It was a wonderful gathering for all who participated, and I want to share with all of you a particularly profound part of the session that has powerful implications for everyone.
This learning comes out of a period of chanting and meditating that Sheila led on the words from Psalm 23, “Kosi Revayah/My Cup is overflowing” (from verse 5: You O G!D have prepared a table before me in the presence of my adversaries; You have anointed my head with oil; my cup is overflowing).
The Kavvanah/personal orientation for the chant was to experience ourselves as being the cup, a vessel for receiving G!D’s love and grace. The melody was a three part chant from Rabbi Shefa Gold. In the very act of making this a three part round we found we were becoming living vessels filled with G!D’s love and grace who could hold a nurturing space for healing for ourselves and for each other. As we emerged from the meditation I was able to point out to everyone that we could take this same consciousness as went forth into our ongoing lives and use it as a reminder that we can continue to hold this nurturing space (overflowing with G!D’s love) for ourselves and for each other as we faced whatever adversities or moments of grace that we might encounter.
With G!D’s help may we all open ourselves to this same awareness of being filled with G!D’s overflowing love. And may this enable us as individuals, as families, as a community, and ultimately as an entire world to hold a space for each other and for ourselves to heal and to flourish through whatever adversities and moments of grace we might encounter.
Wishes to all for a renewing and joyful remainder of the summer!
