Inspired by “Tapestry for the Soul”
by Yedidah Cohen

for the Aliyat neshama of
Moshe Shmuel Noll z’l

Reflection / Journaling

• Recall a time when you sincerely and altruistically felt joy for someone else—when their joy became yours.
• Write about it in the present tense.
• Relive that joy and know: you are always capable of this.

• Recall a moment of shared simcha—a team effort or communal relief, a shared uplift.
• Breathe. Feel the breath of that relief.
• Write about it in the present, with full detail:
the uplift of spirit (hitromemut haruach / התרוממות הרוח), the colors, the scents, the sounds.

• Breathe several breaths.
• Return to your daily shigra / routine — with this inner light.
• This rishimu— רשימוsacred imprint—is within you.
• Return to it at will, with your daily Avodat Neshima — עבודת נשימה Breath-Work.

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Affirmation:

Hashem, bless us even in our lack—
when we cannot feel the other.

Transform the “me”
into “we.”

Help us inhale shefa,
and exhale delight and simcha.

May our sense of smell
sense Your truth.

Oneg. Ratzon. Emunah.
The hidden source, the Ein Sof.

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Meditation:
Rectifying Feelings From Me to We

Take a moment.
Close your eyes.
Let the breath settle.
Let your heart soften.

We begin with gratitude:
Thank You, Hashem,
for the breath that sustains me,
for the gift of awareness,
for this ratzon—this will—
to feel another’s feelings,
to hold both pain and joy as one.

I am not a stone.
Not a tree.
Not an animal.
I am a medaber.

I have been given
the holy gift of speech,
of compassion,
of shared humanity.

This is the element of creation in me—
to emulate You.

To feel joy for another’s joy.
To feel pain for another’s pain.
And still remain whole.

You, Hashem,
have filled my essence
with the power to feel.
To offer compassion.
To recognize You in the journey of another.

🍃 Breathe in… nishmat chayim.
Feel the light and vessel—shefa and ohr—
descending from Your essence,
from above to below,
through me.

I welcome myself now,
into this present moment.
No past. No future.
Just now.
Just this breath.
Just this possibility
to give You pleasure.

With this inhale,
I become like Ephraim,
your beloved son—
joyful in another’s joy,
compassionate in another’s sorrow.

May You, Hashem, do the work through me.
Make me a vessel of rachamim.
Let me truly become Ephraim.

As we relive those moments of shared joy—
the hug at a simcha…
running joyfully through the rain…
we transform memory into presence.

That joy was real.
That joy is real.
And I can feel it now.
Not just for me.
But for You.

🌸 May I feel love and happiness
for her simcha.
May I breathe in her joy.

Pause
in honor of it.

Smile
because of it.

And recognize:
this is affinity of form with You.

This is what You desire.
This is why You created us.

✨ In this present breath,
I connect to my divine essence
as a medaber.
I transform jealousy into joy.
Envy into blessing.
I want others to receive Your shefa, Hashem—
just as You want to shower them in it.

Inhale…
Exhale…

🕊️ Thank You for my breath.
The Ohr HaChayim that flows through it.
The parent-like delight You feel
when I rejoice in another’s blessings.

Even in our unfinished form—
we smile.
That smile is Your essence within us,
shining back at You.

Let this joy uplift our spirit.
Let this be the reshimu—the sacred trace—
we carry forward.
Let our routine, our shigra, never be the same.

When I kiss my child goodbye,
when I greet my friend,
let me feel the breath differently.
No two moments are alike.
No breath is wasted.

📿 May I escort the pain of others
with reverence.
May I hold the loss, like Moshe Shmuel Noll A”H,
in compassion.
And still turn it back to You in trust.

As we plan joy,
as we join in each other’s simcha,
this is the joy You delight in, Hashem.
This is the celebration of creation.

Thank You for the Ohr HaChayim.
Thank You for Yedidah’s ratzon
to bring forth this book.
May our ratzon echo hers—
L’shem Shamayim.

🫧 In this moment of now—
our joy,
our shared love,
our inhale and exhale of delight—
brings us into yichud
with the Source of all life.

This is our purpose.
To bring You nachat ruach, Hashem.

🪶 I inhale trust.
I exhale compassion.
I inhale tov.
I exhale rachamim.

And when the old feeling of shigra returns,
I pause.
I remember:
this moment is not the same.

May every moment of now
lead me to the next,
with awareness,
with joy,
with sacred breath.

🌬️ May this breath
be a yichud of Yud–K–Vav–Heh.

🕯️ Inhale love…
Exhale love.