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Chana Kalmenson

Shlucha of Chabad of Belgravia in London, poet, and teacher of Jewish mysticism specializing in the Sefirot and Jewish women's spirituality.

Jul 9, 2026

23:54
So Chesed is 72, Gevurah is
23:58
216, and that's the rest of 72.
24:00
Exactly.
24:01
Exactly.
24:02
So Gevurah, the secret of Gevurah, the secret of constriction is three times Chesed.
24:10
Chesed is the energy of love, of expansion.
24:12
It's also the foundation of the creation of the world.

9 MINS LATER

33:35
right?
7:34
Mm.
7:34
And it was a process to kind of, um, shed the layers of constriction that come from living in such a, um, an oppressive reality, and to be able to emerge into a place where I can meet God's call, and I can be ready to step up into something greater than me because I know who I am, and I can take ownership of my destiny, and I'm choosing to now follow, like, my divine calling.
8:09
So Sefiras HaOmer is literally that process in between.
8:13
It's, um, turning inward and looking at myself and seeing, how do I integrate this new dimension that I have been gifted on Pesach? And we do this every year, so really the way it's speaking to us personally and individually is that we have an opportunity to up-level every single year.
8:39
We have a new layer of, of kind of smallness or, or limiting belief or some kind of, um, energy that's holding us back, that's keeping us small, that's keeping us, you know, um, not in our power, not in our agency, and that's kind of been gifted.
9:05
Like, it's, it's another layer that's peeled off.
9:08
And then God turns to us and says, "Okay.

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18:58
Mm

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