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 26, 2019

TORAH IS SUSTENANCE

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Water, sprinkles of water everywhere but not a drop to drink, to call pray for purple rain, seeded Cumulus clouds, not a raindrop to be had, not a teardrop. To must pray for rain, on Sukkot as well as other days, to beg the clouds to open to drizzle on our gardens, our farms, bird baths, ocean waters not to recede off our beaches, beaches becoming smaller, an infringement on our recreational beach parks, heavy splashing tides rolling in closer and closer pushing the sands up onto the shores, ducks frollicking geese flying seagulls diving. 

Red flag up no swimming, yellow flag up swim with caution, green flag up swim as you wish. Blessed to be living on/near a beach of moving waters, mikvah, a touch of a finger not to need total immersion. 

A large fish that swallowed Jonah, a humungus white whale Moby Dick, the blubber of a slaughtered Canadian whale as chewing gum, careful to not wear down the teeth. Eskimos in igloos all year round, blocks of ice built up to form a wall, blocking the cold frigid windy air, a circular shelter, no homelessness among the Eskimos. Padded down with blue, purple and red-dyed wool.

Ice fishing scooping in the middle of a frozen lake, a hole drilled burrowed deeply into the icy surface to put in a hook and sinker, to uplift Blue Gills as fish, fish more desirable than meat, the Hebrews preferred fish to meat. Sustenance. Fish oil, fins and scales kosher fish. Not a swearing Swordfish not a cussing Catfish. Not a swishing shellfish. No mean ugly Sharks, teeth as swords, weapons, no scales. Not predatory fish, not fish that eat meat. Vegan animals: sheep, goats, bulls, pigeons, rams.

"Where there is Torah there is sustenance, where there is no sustenance there is no Torah."

Kosher meats and Vegan eating, salads' green lettuce. 

Let us to have prayed, eaten, drank and been joyous! To have sung Selah! The Hallel.

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