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What does Yeho-Shanah mean?


Yeho-Shanah is my personal inspiration from the Jewish culture.
I call my self Yehoshanah to be continually inspired and learn.

Yeho comes from The Divine Name, pronounced Jehovah, in English.
While Shanah is from the Hebrew for year, change and transition.


More about Yeho...


In the Hebrew language, vowel grammar plays an important role.
The root letters Y, V and H are combined for a sense of time.

The Present 	- 	is 	-	HoVeh.
The Past		-	was	-	HaYaH.
The Future	-	will be	-	YiHiYeH.


Tradition teaches The Name, YHVH means the Eternal Present,
One that always was, always is and always will be, forever.

Why is this Name chosen over all the other names for Divinity?

Other names emphasis Transcendence, Pervasiveness and Essence.
Why is The Name YHVH identified as the most significant of all?

This Name is known as One personally liberating us from slavery.
Supposedly, this is the Divine mind speaking inside each of us.
Standing in readiness, we say, I will do, without any pretext.

Mystical Kabalah teaches The Name signifies the Divine Union
of the masculine creative energy, the Holy One, Blessed be He
and the feminine receptive, the Shekinah, Indwelling Presence.

By understanding the root letters and their grammar use
as instructions for a guided meditation of consciousness
I explore my intentions and learn about my attentiveness.

Ye 	- 	intending to
Ho 	- 	be attentive
Ve 	- 	extending (Yeho) to
Ha 	- 	this attention

If that seems a little too much like a complicated formula,
simply consider this phrase:

	Intending to be Present with the current Situation.

This meaning is so simple, it actually defies concretization.
Representing this awareness in pictorial form is a deviation.

The Name offers an opportunity to hold a coherent awareness,
reminding us of an authentic spontaneous attitude to our lives.

The Divine Name YHVH is unfortunately not pronounced at all.
Later Day tradition commands us to vocalize, Our Lord, Adonay,
addressing the meaning of the Name, YHVH within the mind only.

For some, Jehovah, is the common English language pronunciation
(which would be pronounced Yehovah, in the Hebrew language),
but personally, I carefully pronounce The Divine Name, YeHoVeHa.

While various names are used to describe attributes of Divinity,
our language refers to our world as we endevour to comprehend.

Mystical Kabalah explores the Name, shining an endless light.

Y 	- 	Realm of Emanation
H 	- 	Realm of Creation
V 	- 	Realm of Formation
H 	- 	Realm of Making

Y	- 	Father
H	- 	Mother
V	- 	Son
H	- 	Daughter

Y	- 	Wisdom
H	- 	Intuition
V	- 	Balance
H	- 	Kingdom

Y	- 	Right brain
H	- 	Left brain
V	- 	Body
H	- 	Grounded Feet



More about Shanah...

Shanah means a transition, a change and most commonly a year.
Every experiential pattern contributes to a matrix of references.

In Judaism, the year has three overlapping frames of reference.

Seasonal years 	-	365 days (starts with New Autumn Moon)
12 lunar months	-	354 days (starts with Full Spring Moon)
A year of weeks	-	343 days (7 days.. 7 weeks.. 7x7 weeks)

The overlap occurs for 22 days in the 7th lunar month every year.
Time organized as 7 is also explored at 7 and 49 years, a Jubilee.

Living in Yeru-Shalayim for 10 years I observed weekly Shabbat.
I experienced the various references in Place, as well as Time.

I discovered an amazing connection between frames of reference.

I discovered the seventh frame moving from its role as a conclusion
into the harmonizing sense orientation, offering a Centre to time.

I experienced the story of the birth of the Jewish history with
Liberation from slavery, to become a community with a conscience.

It is the voluntary social forming of common frames of reference
that allows greater complexity and variety to sense its coherency.

Seven days becoming 7 Weeks, a year and larger scales of time
are an intervention, defining time by a method of re-orientation.

Returning to Australia a few years ago, I learned to re-orientate.

Yeho-Shanah means intending to be attentive experiencing change.


Yehoshanah
4th May 2004


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