The entire Israelite community came to the Tzin
Wilderness in the first month and the people stopped in Kadesh. It was there that Miriam died and was buried.
The people did not have any water, so they began demonstrating against Moses
and Aaron. (Numbers 20:1, 2)
In the Tzin Wilderness where Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron, ended her journey, the 7 torah letters crowned with tagin ascended.
Hebrew letters in the everyday world meet tagin in
the emotional world where compassion, strength, success, and splendor surround
beauty.
On a rocky cliff overlooking the Tzin Wilderness, Mel and
his students attached tagin made of balloons attached to rainbow painted
letters.
As the weather balloons filled with hydrogen (helium was not
available) ascended, an eagle spiraled up around them.
Miriam's brothers ascended to mountain tops and engaged in
priestly rites while she brought spirituality down to earth – Torah to
water.
Miriam's life was linked to water. She saved baby Moses floating on the Nile and
led singing and dancing on crossing the Red Sea.
The Israelites were sustained by water from Miriam's well
that followed them through their desert wanderings.
The Arizal, Rabbi Isaac Luria, taught that on entering the
Land of Israel, Miriam's well reappeared gushing water beneath the Sea of
Galilee.
He took his student Chaim Vital in a boat on the Sea above
Miriam's well, opposite pillars of an old synagogue, and gave him water to
drink.
The Arizal said, "Now you will attain wisdom from this
water." From then on, Chaim Vital felt he was entering the depths of Torah
wisdom.
