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, June 23, 2017

MIKVAH IN MOVING WATERS

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Rushing Lake Michigan waters or a swift stream, a bubbling brook or a flowing river. Spraying, frothing up from the bottom treasures of the lake whetting all above, bottom of lake meeting sky blessing blue clouds with mistiness, tohu and bohu creating oneness in their union, tippy tops of waves wonderfully moistening mistiness creating dew, condensation, evaporation, becoming cooling clouds, seeing Cirrus and Cumulus, comforting.

Opening your lips, mouth, slightly and swallowing wet air but not wheezing, diving deeply into still waters or to just dip a small body part into moving waters as opposed to still, purifying one's entire body with the emersion of just one foot, to receive cleanness without soap, instead a positive union with The Lord under water becoming pure fruition happening at nightfall after the emersion.

It is a "zav" mikvah, or a mikvah that also cancels out all other impurities, to be clean with just a touch of a toe into moving Great Lake Michigan water or any other moving waters.

To then after a dip bury your newly clean feet into hot sands, dustiness but not dirtiness, purity flowing throughout all body parts, a clean soul and physical body, a clean brain, because your feet and ankles touched holy moving waters.

To mikvah everyday, to cancel out all impureness daily, to be in a holy state in which to talk to G-D, to sing to G-D, to pray to G-D.

Friday, June 16, 2017

FREEDOM THROUGH FORGIVENESS


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Are you angry and upset about things you cannot change, from conversations with family or friends who repeat negative phrases day after day or try to confuse you, or angry at people who try to force you to think and feel one way when you do not tend in their directions, but they cannot face it and so day after day there is dissension.

Do people who supposedly are there to give out good advice tell you the only way to deal with difficult people is to not deal with them. They encourage you to end relationships even if your relationship is with a daughter son or mother father?

How can we keep up the struggle and turn this struggle around into actions of loving-kindness instead of negativity.

Is it possible to repair a relationship that goes bad and turn it around into a relationship that G-D Himself mends so both parties have freedom from guilt and instead love for each other? Freedom through our forgiveness and abilities to move on, move forward, to give acknowledgement to G-D as a male or female entity, your choice, or as a combo of male/female, not to argue over genders, not to dump G-D because someone else thinks they own Him and tells you it is impossible for you to have a relationship with G-D.

Don't do what others want you to do and to be, do what you yourself want yourself to do and to be. If it is praying to the ONE ALL-Mighty G-D then that is your right.

You need to please no one except G-D, Who is yours.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

THE GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS

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A body of wandering wild water that extends hungrily from one end of the Earth to the other. Expansive, huge, humungous. Salt as a mineral in water to tingle the skin. So much water, to never worry of thirsting again.

Heavy heaves of hot waves, waves that are not wishing, waves that are blessing. Tumbling tidal waves, tsunamis, big boating, riding atop of a wave curl as cute as a young girl on water, balanced on a surfboard: frothy like Ajax dishwashing liquid, cleanness, natural water, 100% pureness.

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: seeing sea shells strewn seriously about and around over multiple grains of golden grounded sands, piercing green dunes grass sticking up in piles of bushes, smell of BBQ fires roasting luscious fish, a place to eat, a place to rest.

Exercising swimming, floating on one's back in the ocean water like a lazy Great White Whale, housing for Jonah, smoothing on suntan and sunscreen lotions, bronzing the skin, sipping cool iced water and feeling altogether awesome!

A pool of a place of social activity, listening to delightful music and the swishing of the waves.

A Great Time in the Eternity of the Great Oceans!

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

SUMMERTIME WITH LOVE SURGING UP FROM THE DEEP SEAS

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The huge wet water breakers bubbling up from the depths of the bluish-green seas flooding the shores like sparkling soda water, purity as natural waters, waters that are moving waters from one point to the next, a geometric cycle of wave after predictable wave, hypnotizing. A meditation with the echo of a swish like the swish of a horses' tail, wave after super swish-wishing wave, horsepower and greatness of a Kentucky Derby winning horse, a steaming locomotive engine!

Warm sands as your easy lounging chair, deepening memory foam, a curvature of comfort around body hip curves. Warmth from the sun-soaked sands as well as in the warm temperature of natural water. Pouring rays of sunlight, yellow/golden, a place to feel the warmth of millions of golden coins, but without spending a penny.

The warmth of your Mother's arms surrounding your being, the warmth of her gentle hands and arms, breastfed, creamy milk like cream-colored clouds, for you as a gentle pummeling repetition of ray after ray of sunlight, appearing again and again. The back of a cloud being silver as the front of the cloud is sparking as diamonds, as the clouds move passed you, the brilliant Sapphire blue vast expanses of sky, ONE G-D, ONE universe.

Remembering this warmth afterwards, as a memory of love, a lover to you as is G-D, G-D being there when your mother or father cannot, the sun warm like love whether or not your family is with you or not, in spirit as ancestors, not to deny them, an affection of love and respect carried on forever, being a gift from G-D to us.