Sefirot Meditation
40-Minute Ruach Elohim / Sefirot Meditation
עשר ספירות בלימה — אחת רוח אלהים חיים, זו היא רוח הקודש
Ten inscriptions in the void — One is the Breath of the Living God — She is the Holy Spirit.
0:00–3:00 Opening Chant - Halo Chai Ani
The Me’or Einayim teaches that when we awaken to the simple truth that “I am alive,” we realize that this very aliveness is Divine — that the life animating us is the life of the Blessed Creator. This chant invites us to rest in that awareness, to feel the Divine breath moving through our own.
Halo Chai Ani. Let the melody arise gently, carried by breath, a reminder of the ruach elohim moving through us.
Begin chanting slowly:
הֲלוֹא חַי אָנִי
And who is this aliveness I am
And who is this aliveness I am
And who is this aliveness I am
Is it not the Holy Blessed One
Ai di di dai dai dai dai dai dai halo chai ani
Chai ani
U-mi hu ha’chayut sheli
U-mi hu ha’chayut sheli
U-mi hu ha’chayut sheli
Halo HaBorei Yitbarach
0:03–0:05 Arriving & Settling: Running and Returning
Let yourself settle. Notice the natural rhythm of the mind — its running and returning, running and returning. Nothing is wrong. This motion is part of being alive. Feel your body supported. Feel breath as a soft doorway into presence. Allow yourself to arrive.
0:05–00:10 Entering the Belimah (Void of Possibility)
Ten Inscriptions in the Void
Sefer Yetzirah opens again with mystery:
עשר ספירות בלימה
‘Ten sefirot of ungraspable void.’
Before anything takes shape, there is spaciousness. Sense the vast interior space within you— a room without walls, a depth without boundary.
Within this spaciousness, imagine ten faint points of light— appearing, disappearing, reappearing. Not fixed. Not solid. Just subtle traces of becoming.
Nothing to hold. Nothing to define. Only possibility — quiet, simple, unforced.
00:10–00:16 AM The Breath of the Living God
Sefer Yetzirah continues:
אחת רוח אלהים חיים — זו היא רוח הקודש
‘One is the Breath of the Living God — She is the Holy Spirit.’
(Pause)
Feel your breath as more than air. As ruaḥ—the sacred wind of becoming.
Aryeh Kaplan Integration
Aryeh Kaplan teaches: ‘The Breath of the Living God… comes before Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge… Among the Sefirot it corresponds to Keter. It was through this Breath of God that Betzalel was able to manipulate the letters of creation.’ (Sefer Yetzirah)
(Pause)
Before knowledge, before wisdom, before understanding, before shaping anything — there is breath. Ruach elohim.
This is Keter— the crown, the source, pure creative potential."
Genesis 1:2 — The Fluttering Breath
And Torah offers this earliest image of creation: ‘The earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep, and the breath of God fluttering over the water…’
This is the threshold between nothing and everything. A hovering. A trembling of possibility. Breath suspended above vast, unshaped waters— the birthplace of creation."
(Pause)
"Notice if there is such a space inside you— a moment before the next moment, a hovering just above your own inner waters."
Sefer Yetzirah’s Invitation
Sefer Yetzirah invites us to recognize these moments— the times when we are fluttering above, when breath gathers quietly, when we sense potential shimmering beneath us.
To pause. To hold the moment gently. To honor it as sacred possibility.
A point of connection with divine spirit and divine inspiration."
Inspiration as Breath
The word inspiration means to breathe into. To be inspired is to be breathed—to receive insight, creativity, readiness.
With each inhalation, feel the subtle stirring of possibility. With each exhalation, feel space open for what might emerge.
Hover a moment above your own unformed waters. Feel the holiness of this divine inspiration - ruach elohim - breath of Creation itself.
SILENCE
00:16–00:34 Silence
Let breath be your anchor. Let it return you whenever the mind wanders. Rest in the Holy Breath of Life. (Silence)
CLOSING
00:34–00:40 Returning
Begin to return. Feel your body, grounded and supported. Feel the contact with floor or cushion. Notice sound, light, the presence of others.
Let your breath deepen—not as effort, but as blessing.
We’ll close as we began, with Halo Chai Ani— a reminder of life, breath, and the living God moving through us.
May this holy breath— this creative breath, this fluttering breath— remind us that we are alive, held, inspired, and continuously breathed by the Living God.
