How to live a memory, to be where you were and what you were doing when you had an experience that you never forgot, to be again with a family member who is now deceased, to be with a child who now is an adult living elsewhere. To feel your great love for these family members who now take on a different state of being, aura, are dead or grown up, how can we find this love for them again the love we had for them when they were with us, and when we were with them. Does dead mean gone forever? Does growing up into adulthood mean this once was a child but now has no time for you as he is a full time employee with a large family of his own, many kids?
If you are Jewish, can we call upon our deceased as we call upon Avraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, Leah? Certainly! The 613 Commandments say "not to talk with the dead" but we everyday many times a day pray to Gd and also to the Prophets (who are dead), so why not to our own family members who are also deceased? The Commandments warn against us becoming so involved with spirits that we would be in a world of the dead, conjuring spirits with "witchcraft" which is definitely not allowable. But to remember your deceased Mom and/or Dad with fond memories of your past with them is different than submerging yourself into "trances" (which also are not allowable in the 613). To pray to Gd for the welfare of our deceased spirits, to be with them again in our fond memories of them.
So, here we are again, dangling our feet off of piers jutting out into deep waters. Bouncing our feet back and forth splashing, waters changing from green to blue and then from blue to green and then again to blue. Silver mirrors like shiny metal of Great Lake waves sparkling like soda waters as far as we can see. Remembering Dad's "tonic" water and ginger ale, 7 Up, you toasted in L' Chaim!
As the waters cleanse your hands and feet as you tickle your throat esophagus with bubbling water, reflecting in our thoughts and prayers to The Lrd appreciative for a wonderful world of good things! Going forward with thoughts of love for a prosperous future for all who you know and for all the people who love you.
Thinking, using verbal memorizations of prayers and blessings out loud, to say these Hebrew prayers, even if it is just in a whisper, to be vocal and in song, to call upon our Prophets and our families, to say holy Hebrew words, not to be silent! To must sing them with meaning and not to mince words. Prayers before eating and after eating, and The Shema at least twice a day.
Gd is in this Lake we call The Great Lake, a Lake of Greatness, "Rabbah" meaning greatness in the Hebrew language. "Tov" meaning good. To be so in touch with Gd you never leave Him or never deny your Judaism when someone asks!!
The purity of moving waters on the seashores being Rabbah and Tov, and your Faith in Judaism and Gd also being Rabbah and Tov!
As always, "Keep The Faith!" Improve everyday in your belief in Gd, and in the welfare of your Synagogue and Co-Congregants.
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