Poet Beth "Batyah" Elishevah Ginzberg expresses her creative poetic meditations about water as a very powerful atmospheric element of the environment. Ginzberg wrote these poems at the East Rogers Park Lake Michigan Beaches, on-the-spot, to experientially convey the full effect of the Great Lakes of Chicago, IL USA for your reading pleasure.

Friday, July 29, 2016

THE ONENESS OF WATER AS HEALER OF MIND AND BODY



Water, water everywhere, on a beach as a beachcomber but with a hairbrush instead, brushing as do the waves upon the sandy shore, contentedly smiling a smile of a foolish grin, a grin spread widely on one's face in a smile from ear to ear, using one's ears to catch notes of music spreading on the shoreline from a piano playing its music to chase away shellfish, to be rid of shellfish, to step on empty shells strewn about the beach.

To walk contentedly on a beach shoreline seeing no one "walking on water" this being an impossibility, but instead seeing the sea part into two waves with a path on the sand in between where you could walk, where you could walk to The Promised Land, and to know this is not impossible to walk on sand, but to walk on water would be impossible. To have a brain that is confused as it tries to believe what is impossible and then rejects it all because it is all myth. Myth becoming cult.

To not be engaged in myths or cults, to have the One True Almighty G-d Whose existence we can believe in. We can believe in this Lord because He is everywhere in all things, not just in sculpture, images or idols.

To be keenly aware of this G-d as you carry contentedness and love, love for your fellow, as a Torah Commandment and this love you feel lowers your blood pressure and heals your body. Having a mind of mindfulness as your body becomes healed and your brain is then able to function.

Being in this state of love, love for all humankind, and being also in a state of mindfulness, having a mind that has thoughts of love, as you are guided to do mitzvoth to help others to continue this love and peace.

Having a Shabbat in your week as The Last Day Of The Week, a Day when your mind and body become One like the Oneness of the water as healer of mind and body.

The Oneness of water like the Oneness of The Great Lord Who we love and fear and worship and praise and thank...

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

THE LOVE AND LIGHT OF EIN SOF



The hotness of a lake beach just before the month of August, a lake beach becoming desert sands not a recreational pool, but the scorching dried cracking of mounds of granules of chipped rocks of salty sandy spots, a place to place your body in these sands to soak up the heat of a hot water bottle onto sore muscles and to let the lake water caress these muscles with the mighty arms of a Masseuse named "Ein Sof" Who eases the achiness.

Stretching out your legs, legs that have been sitting under a desk at the office all day, taking leaps and bounds with the calves in your legs as you run, jumping over the highness of lake water waves, playing volleyball barefoot in the sand, kayaking, white water river rafting, sailing in a sailboat, yachting in a yacht, canoeing in a canoe.

Moving the legs as in a dance, a jumping Russian dance and coming down landing safely on your two feet, a time to dance and to toast "To Life!" as the sun bleaches your hair blonde and tans your body skin brown.

A time to be cool in large rooms of air blowing around with air conditioning units, putting on sweaters in a polar place inside that is shaded from the heat of the sun.

Grilling burgers at a picnic with hot fires adding to the hot temps as fires whip and lick the coals baking like an oven solar-heated by rays of light that when magnified burn a hole deeply embedded.

"Ein Sof" as a blacksmith, etching the holy Commandments into two Tablets, smoking in the fires of a Burning Bush, surrounded by a whirlwind of blowing ashes of vulcanizing black soot.

A joyous time, to be safe in cool temperatures avoiding a hot sun that hates and instead to be loved indoors in central air covered in blankets of goose-down taking an afternoon of a siesta of a Shabbat but on all days of the week.

A vacation of this eternal rest but being alive not dead to enjoy every moment of a hot summer sun, a hot sun that is cooled down, ceased to anger, not to be in hot wrath, a summer sun to enjoy a splash in a Jacuzzi in your backyard,  to take a sauna and then to jump into a whirlpool.

A time of relaxation and joyous moments, a time in the summer of fun, a time to laugh, to chuckle, to tell jokes, a time to be happy.

A time to feel this hot sun not to dread it, to feel its gentle warmness, its friendliness, being a sun shining down on you with its love, the love of a bright sun, a perpetual love as the sun is always shining, a daytime becoming a nighttime under the light of smiling new crescent moon.

Feeling the happy-go-lucky lightness of the Light of Ein Sof, feeling love, having the lightness of this Love of Ein Sof to call your own, all summer long.