015 - 11th of Nissan - Asher & Shevat

Day 11 of our 12-day journey invites us into a quieter kind of transformation—one that begins beneath the surface. We walk today with the tribe of Asher and the month of Shevat, a combination that gently asks:

Can you allow in the blessings you've been preparing for?

Shevat is the month of Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for Trees—not when they’re blooming, but when the sap quietly starts to rise inside, hidden from view.

And this is such an important spiritual reminder:

Sometimes you do the work. You shift internally. You clear space, you realign, you choose differently… and yet, your outer world still looks the same. The branches are still bare.

But the fruit is already on the way. The process has already begun.

Tu B’Shevat reminds us to trust the unseen. To believe in what’s rising beneath the surface.

The tribe of Asher is deeply associated with blessing. His name shares a root with the word ashirus—prosperity. But this isn’t just about material wealth. It’s about fullness. Enoughness. The capacity to receive what is yours without resistance.

Asher was blessed with rich olive oil, fertile land, and sweetness—and unlike many of us, he wasn’t afraid of it. He received with presence and dignity.

So many of us are trained to push, to earn, to prove. But Asher teaches a different kind of strength:

The strength to soften.
The strength to stay open.
The strength to let Hashem give.

The number 11 in Kabbalah represents what’s beyond. If ten is completion within structure, eleven breaks through the frame.

On the 11th of Shevat in 5711, the Lubavitcher Rebbe formally accepted leadership of Chabad—a moment of cosmic transcendence entering time. A shift toward living Geulah consciousness in real life. And today, the 11th of Nissan is the Rebbe's birthday! 🎉 🎁 🎈

The Rebbe didn’t tell us to leave the world behind—he taught us to become vessels for the infinite within it.

And that’s what today is about.

Not wishing for blessing from a distance—but becoming the kind of person who can hold it.