MALKUTA
Contemplative Meditations in the
Original Words of Jesus
Brief practices for hearts who want to know, not just know about
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Contemplative Meditations in the
Original Words of Jesus
Brief practices for hearts who want to know, not just know about
How do we discover the most authentic map we can of Yeshua's teachings, as followers in modern times? The answer is nuanced, and the opportunity for new seeing can be wonderful.
Welcome to this series. In this introduction to prayer-meditation, we're invited to feel and experience tselota as Yeshua showed us.
Abwun d'bwashmaya — Our Father in heaven
Nethqadash shmakh — Your name be honored as holy
Teytey malkutakh — Your king's reign come
Nehwey sabyanakh — Let your will unfold
Aykana d'bwashmaya aph b'ar'a — As in heaven, so on earth
Hablan lachma d'sunqanan yaumana — Give us the bread we need this day
Washbuqlan khaubayn aykana daph khnan shbaqan l'khayyabayn — Release us from our offenses as we release those who offend us
Wela tahlan l'nesyuna — Let us not enter temptation
Ela patsan min bisha — Deliver us from misalignment
Metol dilakh hi malkuta w'hayla w'teshbukhta l'alam almin — For yours is the king's reign, the power, and the glory forever
Ameyn
In this prayer-meditation, we explore the experience of the spirit-breath that is already fully here now, within and all throughout.
"Ruha blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of Ruha." — John 3:8
Closer than close.
Always here, yet always in movement.
More intimate than anything, yet shared continuously.
Source of life and creation.
Effortlessly here now, breathing us and flowing us.
Spontaneously free.
In this contemplation, we're invited to feel our heart center.
What would it feel like to feel pure in heart, whole in heart, right now?
The divine sabyaneh is always and already here now.
Sabyaneh ("his will") and Sabyanakh ("your will") are both forms of the same root. This root is inseparable from positive overtones as "what is pleasing" the father.
Let us recognize this prior to words as reality unfolding, and let us return in surrender to what is here now created, complete.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light."
— Matthew 6:22
In this meditation, we feel the experience of a mind divided with worry, yitseph, and the experience of a single eye, unified in the unfolding sabyaneh.
"Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good."
— Genesis 1:3-4
"In him was life, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it."
— John 1:4-5
"The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world."
— John 1:9
The Beatitudes in Aramaic — Matthew 5:3-10
Tubwayhun l'meskenaee b'rukh dilhounhie malkuta dashmaya
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the king's reign of heaven.
Tubwayhun labwile d'hinnon netbayun
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Tubwayhun l'makikhe d'hinnon nertun ar'ah
Blessed are those who soften what is too rigid within them, for they will inherit the earth.
Tubwayhun layleyn d'khaphneyn wa tzheyn l'khenuta
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Tubwayhun lamrahmane dalayhun nehwun rahme
Blessed are the compassionate, for they will be shown compassion.
Tubwayhun layleyn dadkeyn b'lebhon d'hinnon nehzun l'Alaha
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Tubwayhun l'abdway shlama dabwnawhie d'Alaha nitqarun
Blessed are the makers of wholeness, for they will be called children of God.
Tubwayhun layleyn detrdep metol khenuta dilhounhie malkuta dashmaya
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the king's reign of heaven.
In this meditation, we open ourselves to the central experience of Yeshua's message: entering Malkuta.
"Truly I tell you, unless someone is being born from the Beginning, he cannot see the King's Reign of God."
— John 3:3
"Truly I tell you, unless someone is being born of water and Ruha, he cannot enter the King's Reign of God."
— John 3:5
In English, we read "truly," "faith," and "believe" as separate concepts. In Aramaic, they all relate to trust in what can be firmly relied upon.
Ameyn — "Truly/Amen" — Here is firm ground
Haymanuta — "Faith" — Abiding trust
Heymen — "Believes" — Trusts, stands firm
Haymenu — "Believe!" — Trust! Stand firm!
Haymanuta is the key that allows the door within our heart to be opened.
"God said to Moses, 'Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh' — I Am That I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: 'Ehyeh — I Am — has sent me to you.'"
— Exodus 3:14
At the burning bush, Moses asks for a name. What he receives is not a title but a verb — pure being, whole presence, eternally unfolding.
I Am. I Will Be. I Am Becoming.
"May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world's foundation. Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me. I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them."
— John 17:21-26