Shabbat Message
The Breath That Unites All Things
“The purpose of prophecy is unification.”
– Abraham Abulafia
On this sacred Shabbat, let us rest from the illusion that we are apart from the Divine, apart from one another, apart from the Breath that created us.
Abraham Abulafia, the great ecstatic Kabbalist, taught that true prophecy arises through the breath, the sacred permutations of Divine Names, and the inner unification of the self with the Ein Sof, the Infinite. His methods were not purely intellectual, they were embodied, vibrational, rhythmic. He believed that the human being could become a vessel of divine flow through sound, breath, and sacred repetition.
To permute the Names of God is to circulate the divine current through the body, to draw the Infinite down into the finite, and to allow the finite to dissolve into the Infinite.
This is where we find Yeshua and Mary Magdalene, not as distant teachers, but as living echoes of this very path. They did not simply speak the Divine, they became the Divine´s living frequency.
Yeshua, through the breath of Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), aligned fully with the Divine Will. His connection to the Source was not external or imposed; it was internal, intuitive, born from intimate communion with the Living Presence that dwells within all things. He did not ascend by abandoning the body. He transfigured it, showing us that the physical form is not an obstacle to Spirit but its most radiant vessel when infused with Light. His hands did not just touch; they revealed. His silence was not emptiness, but the echo of the Divine Name waiting to be heard. Every act of healing was a call to remembrance. Every breath a transmission. Every step through the desert an experience of sacred embodiment. Yeshua’s life was not a sermon, it was a vibrational language of Divine Love made flesh, the Logos incarnated through tenderness, presence, and prophetic fire.
Mary Magdalene, the one who understood Him most deeply, was the embodiment of Shekhinah , the Divine Feminine, the indwelling Presence. Her ability to receive, hold, and reveal Divine Wisdom was part of Yeshua´s Path. She was the holy echo of his breath, the womb that remembered the divine sounds hidden in silence.
Together, they walked the path of Abulafia’s deepest mystery: that true union is beyond concept. It is soundless sound. It is the moment where the soul drinks from the well of Nothingness and returns speaking Light.
“The end of thought is to return to the beginning of speech.”
In Abulafia’s ecstatic Kabbalah, one does not reach enlightenment by escaping the world or the body, but by entering the sacred spiral of thought and breath, until the soul is returned to its origin in sound, to the Divine Name that birthed it.
The process he describes is one of intention, vibration, and breath:
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Breath purifies thought.
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Thought merges into sacred sound.
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Sound becomes the Name.
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And the Name becomes prophetic union.
This is deeply connected to Yeshua’s transfiguration.
Yeshua, like the mystics of the inner tradition, did not bypass the world, he sounded through it. His teachings were vibrational activations. Every healing, every silence, every parable was encoded with Divine Breath. He returned to the beginning of speech, to the pure Logos, the Word before language.
And it is Mary Magdalene, the Shekhinah made visible, who receives this sound as a transmission. She holds what Abulafia calls the “mystical alphabet of the soul,” where each gesture and breath becomes a portal to Divine knowing.
Shabbat as Reunion
Shabbat is the sacred moment when the Shekhinah descends to dwell among us. It is the time of the Sacred Marriage, between the upper and lower worlds, between the soul and its Source, between the masculine and feminine currents of creation.
Abulafia taught that the highest mystical experience was not escape, but embodied ecstasy, the state in which the soul, through breath and Name, becomes the vessel through which Divine Light flows into the world.
On Shabbat, we become the altar. The candle is not just a symbol, it is the Light of the Infinite resting in our home, waiting for our breath to become its prayer.
The Bride is welcomed. The inner King is awakened. The soul remembers its origin.
When we light the Shabbat candles, we do what Magdalene once did: we invite the Shekhinah into form. We remember that we are made of breath and dust, but destined to carry flame.
A Shabbat Practice:
Tonight, when you light your candles, pause in silence before you speak the blessing. Place your left hand over your heart, your right hand over your womb, and breathe deeply. With each breath, speak the following mantra aloud or within:
אֶחָד • רוּחַ • שְׁכִינָה
Echad – Ruach – Shekhinah
Oneness – Breath – Divine Presence
Let your body become the vessel through which the Infinite speaks.
Upcoming Workshops, Trainings, Events:
Magdalene Shabbat Black Rose Activation. April 18th CLICK HERE
The Magdalene Bee 5-5 Workshop. CLICK HERE
The Magdalene Holy Gathering in Avalon. In Person Gathering. CLICK HERE
This weekend I will be sharing something so special that has been birthed….
Spanish Course: María Magdalena, Una Hebrea Mística
Info will be out soon on workshops and pilgrimages in Barcelona, Spain!
Wishing all of you a blessed Shabbat Day, such a sacred moment as we enter Pesach and approach Palm Sunday.
Below I am sharing one of my favourite movement meditations that we can practice today on Shabbat!
Ahava,
Ana Otero
