LIONS IN LOVE

Point just an index finger into moving waters [not still waters] and derive a cleanness a pureness of heart, a heart that protects itself, not a heart that is hung out dangling on a limb, a heart that knows who to love and when, and when not to. 

Can you say "I love you?" Can you say "sweetie, honey, sweet heart, wonderful, dearest?" "I love you very much!" Why not? The Torah tells us to have affection for each other. Love? Yes, love is not a dirty word. 4-letters yes, but not a swear word. If you feel this word love is tainted, [a word of romance] then instead say "affection, empathy, sympathy, mercy, lovingkindness, truth, wonderment, attachment, sincerity, desire, passion".

Feel better? Not hung out dry on a limb in a relationship of unrequited "love"?

So, does Mick Jagger help us to feel a strong powerful mightiness, and The Beatles? Bob Dylan. Joan Baez? Carol King. 

Go for it! Feel their strength as they sing as if to sing only to you in a personal one-to-one love song, for you only, individually. As they sing this beautiful singing causes joyousness, a feeling of rejoicing.

An alertness, a sounding like that of a Shofar [ram's horn]. Can you blow a Shofar? A Shofar can be blown by a woman for other women. A Rebbitzen? [Rabbi's wife?] Woman Rabbi? Yes!

The power of a great lion roaring mouth open wide as he protects his lionesses. A kosher meat ram sacrificed by Abraham instead of a human, not to murder his son Isaac. Angels who came down from heaven to redirect Abraham to save his son's life. To eat a good nutritious healthy meal of lamb chops instead.

Righteousness, goodness, greatness. To life! [not death] L' Chaim!

TORAH IS SUSTENANCE

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.

A PIRATES' TREASURE MAP FOUND UNDER WATER

Oi! Ahoy! A bottle of rum and a yo ho ho! A shot of whisky, golden yellow Gold Rush nuggets, a quick slippery slurp to empty the shot glass, carnival glass, etchings on the glass, a small thick glass, glass composed of silica sand. 
Where to find this treasure map? Under and into the sands of the beach, a moving waters beach, to just insert your hand into the water and you come out clean! 
Mr. Clean wore earrings, a nose ring, was he a slave? 
The Hebrew People transposed from being slaves to the Egyptians into becoming the Leaders of the World, Internationally, Chieftains, Priests: Kohen, Levi, Nazirite, Prophets, Na'avim. Which of these five are you? Or an Israelite Priest? An Israelite Priestess? Batyah, the Egyptian Princess who helped the baby Moshe out of the River Nile? To raise him as her own child. He to love her as his own real Mother. His true birth Mother paid by the Egyptians to raise her Moshe child, the love of the biological mother-to-son true love bond relationship: lovingkindness, courage, honesty. 
Where does this treasure map lead us to? Blue waters, blue skies, a deep blue horizon that separates the seas from the skies. 
Comfortable shoes for walking hiking, tip-toeing in the sand, a bicycle to ride on a path, a journey along the beach waters, rubber tires filled up with air to the brim, a silver bike tire rim, to desire a new car vehicle, to be a child in a playground and climb up and down Jacob's Ladder in a park. 
Following the angels, we are second only to the angels. An angel to put his arm around your shoulders, to massage your back, to knead your neck and back of head with strong firm hands, all stress leaving the body and brain, to wash off to be pure in these natural moving waters.
She sent me a treasure map, postal mail. Who to love, what is her advice? To like everyone. To love God.

ZILLIONS OF GRAINS OF SAND SINGING SONGS

Warming up outside springtime in the air. Radiant sun's shining upon a mountain, a sand dune, dune buggies not strollers, canoes, not yachts, kayaking. Brilliance in reflections as the boats fly by not leaving the ground, skimming the surface like flat smooth thrown stones. 

Grounded, sure-footed, hiking, skipping, hitting a tether-ball, boxing in a ring. "Don't step on the crack it'll break your Mother's back!" A helping hand. Up from a chair, a Godly Goal, an Athlete with Tennis Shoes. 

Lakes' drops of greenish-bluish water, not green, not blue: Turquoise. Turkeys poised; not poison. Thankful on Thanksgiving Day.

Splashing water fiercely out of anger! California gold mining gold nuggets stream waters shake your pan, shake out sand and find the gold. Beach combing bottle cap tops. California Gold Rush. Filtering gold from sand. Buried treasure. Treasure maps. Message in a bottle afloat.

Gold teeth gold is gone. Teeth are gone. Mined with an intellectual Mind. Golden Castles, Tower after Tower. Mansions on sides of Mountains. Gasoline gushing!

Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your Golden Hair!! Climbing up Golden locks. Rivers, dams. Lox for Lunch but calling it "Brunch". English Tea Time. Big Teas little teas. English words. How many languages do you know? 

What do you teach? Torah? A pocketful of Posy! Not picking pockets. Rich in Riches because "We Lack Nothing." [Psalm 23]

BEATING ALLERGIES TO PERFUMED SMELLS

What is that smell? I smell a smell and my nose tickles, is it an allergy to smells, specific smells, an allergy to the bleach in a washing detergent, the smell on one's clothes, the actual substance of soap on one's body transferred from the soap and causing discomfort? Do we need these smells like a smelling salt necessary to keep us awake? To spread the perfume on one's wrists? Not to tattoo your wrist, instead to remember never to hurt your wrist, it must smell good so you remember not to mess with it!! 

An allergy to flowers, pollen, the orange powdery stuff on the inside of the blossom. This powder being inside the perfume directly from the blossom. A smell that is nice or a smell that is noxious. To be caught in a trap with a smell on one's wrist that is a noxious smell. You thought it would be nice, a good smell, but it bit you back when you fell into its trap! 

Dry clean-only clothing. What kind of soap? It costs $6.00 at a dry cleaning shop to clean a pleated skirt. Do you have a wardrobe of dry cleaning-only clothes that you cannot clean at home in your laundry machines? What good are these clothes, they become dirty and smelly (a bad smell) and you cannot wear them! You can smother them with perfume, but then this perfume is noxious and so this is not good. 

Can you smell moth balls from across the room? Someone wearing clothes not cleaned instead being from storage and fuming a fume of these moth balls. The next day she wears a thick sweater and it smells of perfume, a smell to knock you over!! A smell not as flowers but instead like a pepper gun. To sniff the air in the entire room and it smells of her. Her and her perfumes. She is not rich enough to clean (dry) her clothes. So we end up praying for fresh air early in the morning. Praying for her to wash her clothes. She thinking she looks good and smells good. But flooring everyone in the room. Meaning falling on a floor when you sniff this stuff!  

What can we do if we are in this situation? Do we just walk out and not come back? Can we get her to walk out and never come back? Her sword is her perfume and our shield is The L-rd. What does the L-rd say to do? If you open your mouth and breathe through your mouth not from your nose, you will not smell the smell. The smelling glands are in the nose not mouth. Breathe deeply and this never allows anyone to pollute your air, ever. The air seeming fresh like lake air or ocean air as you open your mouth to not smell these perfumed poisons. 

In control when you think you have no control over the situation? Not so. If you ask her not to wear this perfume and she says "no" you have a choice to not smell it. She is unarmored and you have clean air even though she thinks you don't. 

Breathe in deeply happily just as though you are in a scent of fresh air. Thank Gd for His advice.

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?

Happiness? Overrated? Maybe not. What do you do or think about in order to make yourself happy? Gleeful? Joyous. Gay. Ecstatic. Feeling emotionally and physically satisfied? Better than satisfied? Incredibly so?

Is there a taste in your mouth from lunchtime that could be changed to become a better taste? Pop a gumdrop or M&M into your mouth, an almond? If it is sweets that you crave, or salt, then indulge, but just a taste yes, not an overload, a tip on your tongue, tipsiness.

Are your fingers craving smoothness, velvet, silk, an all cotton blouse? A pair of shoes of the exact correct fit on your feet, house slippers, shoes that caress your foot bottoms, sides, and tops, ankles, walking barefoot on a sandy shore to want to be swimming, waves that come in with the tide, each wave to love you.

Waters that are pure, waters that clean upon immediate contact, no soap. A rainfall? A snowfall? Dewy grass, frostiness, autumn trees' dead leaves, catch them grab them out of the sky, jump into a pile of leaves, hear them crackling!

What sounds make you happy? Sounds of silence? Yes. Soft sounds of a kitten purring? Sounds of soft shoes tapping on a wooden floor, gently sounds of water pouring from your tap? Water that is pure, drinkable, satiates your thirst. Sounds of dripping.

Turn on the radio, sounds of music, opera, classical music, rock, rock n' roll, guitars, violins, accordions, sounds of people laughing, children laughing, parents content. Sounds of dogs barking as they eat their sweet treat! Barking for more, giving them more! Teaching a dog a trick, him rewarded. 

Holidays? Do you love holidays? Passover, Easter, Purim, Rosh Hodesh, Christmas, Hanukkah, always another holiday on our calendars, lunar and solar calendars, more and more to celebrate. Cooking your favorite holiday foods. Throwing another house party.

Jewelry? Gorgeousness of gems wrangled upon your wrists, leg ankles, necks with new necklaces. Rings wound upon your fingers, feelingly. Sparkling sea greens, sapphire throne blues. Silver and gold. Real gold, not an imitation! Safes with combinations, locks with keys, safety, security, prosperity of assets. Crystal? Loads of shelves and more shelves with more decorations. Sparkling glass. Glass as prisms, stained glass of all colors, Carnival glass of all shapes. Do colors make you happy? Which colors? Yellow?

Looking in your environment for the location of all that is beautiful, all that is pleasing. Sounds from which to dance, to tap your feet. To enlarge your eyes as the sounds get louder and more wonderful by the moment!

A best friend? All your friends? Your acquaintances? Your family members? Distant cousins? People who go to your religious affiliation? Church or Temple. A stranger on the sidewalk as you pass him you smile and nod and he returns your happiness with reciprocation. His kids say "hi!" A children's playground in a public city park as their destination. Flowers in this park.

Everywhere anywhere something pleasing to see, to smell, flowers, incense in the pollen mingling with the wind, breathing it in and loving its aroma! To remember to put on perfume in the morning. A dab on each wrist. Wonderful breezes of colognes that tickle your nostrils!

Bees going from blossom to blossom, new leaves new flowers. Honey, real bees' honey like date honey, licking it from your fingertips. A spoonful of chocolate to stir in cookie batter, taste and smell it. Chocolate covered strawberries flipped up into a wide opened mouth!

Does all this make you happy? Not to be at a loss of happiness? To perform a mitzvoth, a deed of loving-kindness to achieve instant happiness causing someone else to be happy too.

Feeding the birds? Feeding a newborn infant, a breastfed infant? Helping your elderly mother or/and father to walk holding your arms not needing their canes.

A cup of coffee? A shot of Scotch? Vodka. Mixed drinks. A Bloody Mary? Not to bleed blood, but to drink deliciousness, a drop on one's tongue, instantly to smile a smile of happiness. 

Speaking words of pureness, words you remember reading in your Torah or Bible. Clean words, clean mouth, clean teeth, hands cleaned, washed, clean clothing, clean, clean, clean! Does cleanness make you happy?

It's great to be happy!! Even to be happy when we do not have a concrete reason! Turning a smile of upward lip lines into laughter, jolliness, even goofiness. To love happiness and thank Gd for His efforts in providing you with this happiness.

To share your happiness with others.   

THOUGHTS MEDITATIONS MEMORIES ON THE SHORES OF THE GREAT LAKES

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.

ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH

What did the Hebrew people desire and ask of Gd to provide them? Not meat, but fish!

Raining fishes, all kinds, all colors, red and blue, orange and green, yellow and white. Scales or no scales. Fish without scales however are not Kosher fish. For a fish to be Kosher fish it must have scales and fins.

The porpoise fish is the most intelligent fish of all fishes, the most intelligent mammal. Zookeepers throwing them fish that they jump up and catch it in their mouths. The porpoise has no scales and therefore is not a Kosher fish, and should not be eaten. The Whale also is without scales and therefore is not Kosher and should not be eaten.

Tuna containing the metal mercury in their bodies, a chemical that causes its eater to develop Dementia. To eat Tuna only a few times a year. Not to overdo it!

To buy fillets or pieces, pieces costing less in stores. Fillets costing more, you pay for the glory.

How to catch fish? The homeless being great fishermen, lines thrown off piers, worms on the end, waiting with this bait for a tug, bait that looks like flies. 

One fish two fish red fish blue fish. Taught by Dr. Seuss as kids how to survive, to have enough foods, trips to forests to eat Plantain and Dandelion weeds, bitter, to marinate it in vinegar overnight. Roasted potatoes in a bon fire, the potatoes dug and buried under the fire to reach the hottest of coals. Wrapped in tin foil.

A decorated fish on the dining table at a Bar Mitzvah. Cucumber slices pierced with toothpicks to lay over the fish's skin, scales removed. Skin of cucumbers also removed, green, pealed.

Stuffed White Fish, scarce, not in most stores, the best of fish, not fishy tasting, not bitter, but instead pure in its whiteness, filled with breaded stuffing. Not to eat rare fish, Sushi not for she or he. Eels? No thank you. Shellfish? Not Kosher. Low in vitamin calcium? Do not take oyster shell calcium supplements, too a non-Kosher food. The oyster is a shellfish! Not to take Glucosamine for sore stiff knee joints. It is made from sharks, another non-Kosher fish! No scales.

To eat of the peaceful animals. How to become peaceful? Not to trim your toenails on the same day you trim your fingernails. Trim your toenails on Thursdays and your fingernails on Fridays. To cut them to not feel warlike, to do this just before Shabbat. To on Shabbat feel peaceful, with no fingernail weapons. No Sharks, no Catfish. No Swordfish. Vegan? Sounds good to me. No murdering of any animal, no animal slaughtered. Vegan is Kosher.

Fish for dinner? My Dad got nightmares when he would eat fish on Fridays. I developed an allergy to shellfish when I started to study Torah. Studied children's books like "Green Eggs and Ham". To only eat eggs that are not fertile. Fertile eggs from a chicken are not Kosher. How to tell a fertile egg from a non-fertile egg? A fertile egg has a spot of blood on the outside of the yolk.

Yes, fish, like gefilte fish and lox with bagels are approved fish. They are clean fish, good fish, holy fish. When fish are inspected by Rabbis, they are truly wonderful treats to fill you up! One fish two fish, crimson fish purple fish! Fish with pink polka dots!

Going fishing? Yep! To the Great Lake Michigan. To be a great person because you eat great foods! Fish is for everyone! You are what you eat.

THE BLESSING OF OCEANOGRAPHY

Oceanography. What is the spiritual aspect of this science, is there a way to look at it to appreciate the Greatness of the Blue Oceans, to fear the Dangers of Ocean Hurricanes as we fear the Greatness of Gd, the Lingering Damaging Floods of Destroying Ocean Tsunamis? 

To appreciate a springtime rainstorm, to see a bolt of lightening to turn it into a musical concert light show? To lay back on green turf on a blanket at an outside musical concert park and beat your feet to the drums you hear. Tap your fingers on your hands like as upon a sweet soprano flute. A piccolo? A Kosher pickle. Not to listen to just bass without Ein Sof as your source of sweetness, sweetness flying high as far as the sound of music can travel.

Oceans. California. The Pacific Ocean. The largest Ocean in the world! 

Redwoods growing. Birds' nests. Ocean birds. 

The tide coming in and going out. Splashing sensations on one's feet. Bare foot in the hot California beach sands. Venus Beach. A home for the homeless to travel. Beaches to welcome the homeless with an outside home. A tent here and a tent there. Every day warm. Every night cool but not cold. 

Oranges. Sweet sugary fructose fruit growing on trees. Pluck them off and eat free food growing on delicious wooden trees. Migrant workers well fed as they eat their own produce. A snack here and a snack there. Not to be hungry. Water coming in from waterfalls. Ocean pure natural waters. To take a Jewish mikvah in the Ocean water. Changing small letters into capital letters: ocean to OCEAN. From small to big. From dirty to clean.

The question is: Can we shun an ocean? An OSHUN? 

We need water every few minutes. Praying for clean water. The "Blessing of Oceanography". Water to saturate the mouth and tongue. Ocean waters cleaned in heavy duty filtration systems. A clean cup, a clean hand, sipping with clean lips. Water chasing away body poisons, food poisoning leaving the body with a glass of pure water. Not processed by the liver, instead expelled out of the body from the kidneys.

A blessing? Can we involve Gd into our thankfulness for the love of these large Oceans? Gd was the Creator. Like a Mom creating children as her own, like a Father helping his wife to raise their children, kids whom the Dad created too.

Watch and learn from Gd's creations, learn from nature. To feel as happy yourself as a great ocean pounding like drums of Timpani on the shores with each wave, successively, generation to generation. Drum head to drum head.

A Mom to become a Grand-Mom. A Dad to become a Grand-Dad.

Happily hydrated like the Great Pacific Ocean, pacified, gladdened, because of the purity of its clean water.

IMAGINARY DESCRIPTION OF THE MISHKAN

What did the Mishkan look like? We have exact blueprints of it saved by historians and worded in The Chumash Torah as described by an Author of Torah. We see pictures of it reinvented so it takes a true form of life, not only two dimensional but full sized, a real life sculpture.

So how can we describe it, not as actually a piece of art, but how it makes us feel to envision it, and to want to touch it as we now touch the Torah Scrolls when they are in procession down the aisle of a Jewish Temple.

We kiss our books, our prayer books, Seders, and feel affection and love as we watch the Torah marched, danced down the pathway, fully garbed in Torah covers, dynamite awesome sewed tapestries, glitter and shine, sparkling, as gold. Gold as the metal that comprised the Mishkan.

Who carried it? The Levites. Grab as far as you can reach. Got it? Touch its surface, smooth, gently, furry, felt-like, embroidered, silk and wool, linen, blue, purple, crimson, white. Where is the white? It is in the rainbow, all colors together, merged, cause whiteness.

To savor a clean feeling in one's mouth as we sing as the Torah is walked down the aisle, no red carpet, wooden benches, a Book of Life, a Bemah. Torah Stand.

A congregant who is in need of peace to shake everyone's hand as they pass by and walk up and then down the Bemah, up and then down Jacob's Ladder. A stage? The curtain behind who stands the Wizard of Oz? To bow frequently, to throw kisses, to throw candy, to catch it and chew it to sweeten our dispositions as we politely, sweetly sing with the Cantor.

The Mishkan? What is behind the Ark? Can we open the Ark doors? Blindingly the shine of the Mishkan with cherubs, two, each on the top. A place to bake Challah breads, two loaves at a time. Golden rods to fit comfortably inside the hands of the working Levites, to get a grip.

Olive oil. Surging and splashing. Oil that heals. Oil that lights a candle, or nine on Chanukah, arms branches, the Family Tree. Twelve Tribes of Israel. To which do you belong?

David. The anointed ones. To hear David again and again each generation, to feel his poetry in your heart.

To use this poetry to keep a loving feeling, especially to love Gd with a mind, a brain, an intellect.

SEEKING GOD, FINDING HIM AND THEN FLOURISHING

Seek and find? Look and see? Listen and hear? Sniff and smell? Touch and feel? Believe and acquiesce? Buy and have ownership?

What is it we are looking for? To turn wishes into prayers and prayers into blessings. To know the Hebrew language and have it become your mantra as a dance step or too as you simply sit and rest. To follow its regular beat. To make it your routine.

To smile at a friend and in this way observe the commandment of Pirkei Avot to greet everyone with a cheerful countenance. To as you walk on the street greet a stranger with this same smile and he then becomes not a stranger but a friend. To look the stranger on the street with direct eye contact as he begs you for money and be honest with him, yes you have money or no  you do not. To simply give a man a dollar that would be so appreciated. To instead give him a loaf of bread, if that is what you can give.

Where can I see God if I look for Him? In the gratitude reflected in this strangers eyes as he thanks you for the gift. Or to send someone an anonymous gift card in a greetings card to give someone money but not to identify yourself so he need not reciprocate. You get no reward, the gift is entirely his.

Colors? Do you know what color is which? Ever taken an Art Class? Look all around you inside or out, see all the colors of the rainbow without straining. To love the yellows as you turn them into gold and the grays as you turn them into silver. A door knob? Gold, silver, brass or nickel? Change in your hands: quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies. Colorful pieces of cut glass: gems, jewels. Handcrafting necklaces, bracelets, headbands. Creating something out of nothing. Appreciating the nothing that becomes something. Knowing it is God Who made the difference.

A marble countertop with swirls of silvers inside whites. The text of your favorite book, the binding strong and secure, a book as a companion. The Torah being this Book. Integrating the Commandments into your brain so it becomes second nature to follow them to a T. T is also for Teaching, to Teach Torah and feel comfort and achievement in teaching it. 

Finding God? Seek. Find. Flourish.     

LAKE WATER AND DELICIOUS FISH

Living in East Rogers Park with a Great Lake Michigan down the block, waves of water splashing over frozen sands, water with chips of ice, to dig a hole and insert a fishing line, to catch and eat cold water fish, to string a sharp pointy fishhook with nylon string, to pull up on the string to pop a Blue Gill into your mouth!

Sushi, raw fish, sweet and sour sauce, fish of huge amounts of Omega 3. Which was it meat or fish that was the attraction to the Israelites when they traveled the desert for 40 years? It was fish, not livestock meat that they desired. Fish is Kosher if it has scales and gills. Catfish and Swordfish are not Kosher fishes. Tuna and smoked salmon lox are Jewish traditional foods.

Ice skating on a Great Lake if it is frozen cold frigid solid ice. Sidewalks with a layer of ice for kids to ice skate upon. sliding all in fun.

On the rocks? Can a rock be your friend? A pet rock? On the rocks which are ice cubes in water, a drink over the bar counter, colored blue with a bright blue flame when lighted with a match. Spilled on the counter with a trail of gray smoke and blue fire, to snuff out in a hurry.

Not ever to go hungry, to carry a fishing pole with you and your pet dog, to live as a wanderer wandering along the water shores, always with enough water, always hydrated, always in abundance of fish.

Baked fish with a breaded topping for lunch. Fish is not the enemy, but what is the enemy if fish is not? Secreting thick Tartar Sauce over the pure white breaded fish, a bit of tanginess.

Is meat the enemy? Which meat and why? Do we become vicious predators with teeth as sharp as those of an alligator's when we tear our teeth into this reptile to eat it? Do we become this reptile as ingesting his soul as we eat him? Or, if meat is not the enemy is sugar the enemy instead?

Diabetes overhanging your head as a hang man's noose. Sugars raise your body sugar level dangerously and make the illness of Diabetes eminent. 

What types of sugars are there? Cane sugar is one we know about, and there are many non-sugar sweeteners as well on the market. Pink, yellow, blue packets, all chemicals that give your mouth a sweet taste. But these chemicals are just that, chemicals. Not good for you.

To have a mentor in my Mother who does not sweeten her drinks with sugar cane or chemicals either. To sip the clean purity of mother's milk each time we put a cup of tea to our lips, not sugared, instead pure and distinctive, a taste of loving-kindness.

It is okay to say no. Say no to sugar. What you can say if not "no"? We can say "No, thank you".

MY BEACH DOWN THE BLOCK

Wanting and wading, waiting, balancing as a gymnast on a pier, jutting narrowly, made of stone crusted cement, changing higher waves into smaller weaker waves, water movements controlled, waiting whetting for greater heights, dangling toes, fingertips, ice capped frozen sands of white snowy giggling glaciers, holes cut into Titanic ships passing by, a stream a scene of Sirens, hair drawn up and flowing down like serpents, a summer spent at a tanning salon, a winter spent below ground.

Queen Persephone, not Esther, with her husband Hades below the Earth, rising as a fiery vicious volcano spitting lava each Spring. To become a Phoenix seagull bird in fierce flight, flying in fright, feathery, summer after summer after summer, generation after generation after generation.

But do you know how to cook?? Well, now, would I trade my life as Phoenix to be a personal chef? How high can it take me? Hades did not take her up, he took her down. Down into the depths of Hell, an imprisonment enslaved as "domestic housewife". To spend the rest of my life in a kitchen? No thanks, I pass. 

The insects of locusts on my beach down the block. Fed all of Egypt, one of the Ten Plagues. Do you know how to cook locusts? They are Kosher foods, you know. The Egyptians ate them too! Curled arms on boiled insect bodies, small corpses mixed together with fried rice. How would I know? 

First born, killed? The end of the Plagues. Let My People Go is the password. How would I know? All you need is the Internet. Ask A Rabbi. How would he know?

If you ask questions you are admitting ignorance. But even though, there were four children and they each asked one of four questions. The fifth child? Why did he not want to know? Was he invited? Why not?

Answers to questions, chefs that do not cook, restaurants inside homes. Locusts as pets not pests. Bowlfuls of jelly-like goldfish, swimming around and around, dizzy, watching them swim, not to be fished out as dinner, instead as supper, yes, super supper, Cod for everyone. Omega 3. 

Cod fish at the BBQ down the block at my Beach. Slurping it up and sliding it down slippery in your throat, an esophagus filled with enough food no famine, dreams of pyramids, storehouses of fish for all. 

All at my village neighborhood Beach, all just a few steps down the block.   
 

STUDY OF POLAR BEARS FOR CURE FOR INSOMNIA

An afternoon nap, every afternoon, hiding in caves, bears taking a snooze hiding eyes from brightness with gigantic paws, crawling into their caves, dens, children cubs warming up in their mother's fur, not to end up as a fur coat, saved by those who care about the extinction of animals, animals who love humans, humans who love animals.  

To learn from the bear families, to be like them, to catch sleep during the day, to then be wide open-eyed to hunt your supper. Lake Trout swapped with fingernails as sharp as knives. 

What is the benefit of an afternoon nap? I never knew, but my grandma took them and so does my mother, it separates the morning from the afternoon, takes you from one gracefully into the other. After eating lunch, to healthfully digest your lunch, stomach churning while the muscles in your body are still and restful. 

Are you at work, have a full time job? Have a lunch break? Try to take one half hour to take a snooze. Try to fall asleep in a chair. Eyes closed, deeply in meditation and then wake up and go back to work. 

An afternoon nap! Sounds like a great idea. Yes, there were caves with cavemen who also took afternoon naps. Learn from nature, do as the animals do. Build a nest and coat it in the inside with feathers for warmth, for softness, buy a goose-down filled blanket and pull it up to your chin, head softly nestled into your pillow, to sleep.

Why do we want to sleep? What is the importance of sleep? The Psalms written by King David tell us "God visits His beloved in their sleep". 

A SOOTHING CURING SPRAY OF CLEAR BLUE WATER AS HEALER

How to create your own physical therapy, water flowing shooting like white rapids upon a muscle sore and stiff, to walk into a dance as the water calms the sore muscle and slowly recedes the pain and stiffness.

What be it? Arthritis? Bursitis? Just turned in bed the wrong way? Walked too far? Exercised too much?

What is the cure? More exercise or to rest and not move the muscle instead?

To not concentrate on the pain, instead to concentrate of the relief of pain.

Think of a masseuse's strong rubbing fingers and hands, spraying warm water upon the soreness and causing a soothing feeling which turns a grimace into a smile of happiness, better to be able to greet all who you meet, to greet family as well as friends.

To buy a Jacuzzi to build in your upstairs bathroom, a large warm deep tub, a bon fire under a glistening copper bathtub, heating up swirling waters, shooting pummeling waterfall sprays, a toy water squirt gun targeting your right hip, pain going away, disappearing, feeling easiness after suffering.

Water as a friend, a cleanser and water as a healer. Water to be there as a creation of Adonai, water in lightness or water in darkness, water by candlelight, one or two candles, water that reflects the moon or/and sun, water that is the answer.

The science of Oceanography as you dip your bare foot into water, to love water, to love God Who created water and to thank Him and praise Him because He did it just for you!

To love Him back with all your heart! 

WHERE IS THE DEVIL ON CHRISTMAS?

Sitting down on a pier with your legs overhanging after skimming rocks on the surface of lake water. The lake water does not disappear in the wintertime, it flows just as fluent as your Hebrew prayers, one prayer after the other, one water wave after the other. The lake being a place to go anytime of the year to whet your bare feet or even just put the palm of your dry hand into the water. The water being a place of conversion or mikvah taking, a place symbolizing the women in the world, goodness, water that cleans.

But what of the accessibility of this mikvah water to you on Christmas, to make sure you take a dip, but in cold water?? Put your right hand into the pureness of this blue sparkling clean natural water and you will be saved. How about that! It is that easy, both The Almighty Lord through the words of Moses said water will change you, as did John the Baptist. You can go either way, but the water is the same. The water was created by God, no one else. Sorry if this is spirituality you may not be able to comprehend, get into the water anyway, even if you cannot comprehend its goodness, the goodness of natural water. Water is not just a summer activity, the devil created Christmas so we would be tempted to worship a false god without the accessibility of natural waters, instead them all being hard as ice.

Yes, the devil is lurking everywhere on Christmas, it is up to you to pray to the true One G-d of Avraham and Sarah, to benign the cancerous idea of a day as Christmas. A day that was created to be the end of goodness, the end of God as we know Him and the beginning of a man who instead is your god.

To pray for all the misguided sheep in the pasture, to pray for a G-d to keep them in His care, a G-d who will give them goodness everlasting even in their ignorance.    

WHAT SHOULD WE REMEMBER IN DECEMBER?

 

December rhymes with "remember". Are we fluent in several languages, can we remember more ways to say Love in many languages spoken around the globe?

If we forgot someone's name, but we remember his face, can we try to get to know him? Are there Jewish prayers we have memorized and sing to ourselves frequently using the words as mantras?

Can we remember stuff that is uncomfortable? PTSD is difficult to forget, can we roll over these memories with forgetfulness to instead remember the good occurrences in our lives? 

Was there something especially wonderful that someone said to you that you appreciated? Can you remember the smile on his face as he spoke to you? 

Are there 613 Commandments that you know and are trying to follow? Are there people who disrespect you because they were never taught the respect in these rules? Respect starts in one's childhood home, the parents need to be respected, if they are not, then they will not respect their own children.

We need to remember that love is there for us even when we are parentless or have no siblings and/or have no pets. The love for us is respectful love, the love for Adonai, especially when our parents are either deceased or in another way unable to give us love. 

What else can we remember this December? To remember being inside the Chapel of a Jewish Temple. To have felt the tzitzit on a tallit, prayer shawl, and to remember to light your Chanukiah Menorah, as it represents life, the disappearance of darkness, nine candles with one Shamash candle. To rest easy at night, to get a full night of sleep after the candles rest easy too, to fully burn down to the wick, a prayer sung each time we light it to enlighten our own Jewish spirituality.

The trees outside are formed like Menorahs, branches like candle arms burning in ecstasy! Never forget the warmth of this love from your Menorah candle flames, and the word in Hebrew as "ahavah" which means Love in English.

Love and Light Forever.

ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER

Have you ever been the victim of theft? Or just to lose something and not be able to find it, someone found it and kept it, did not put it in the lost and found? Was there an error, and no one is to blame, but you are nevertheless at a loss of your property and it cannot recouped.

Have you ever then found property, just after you lost property, and had the opportunity to steal it or report it, and the feeling of revenge tries to turn you into a bad person, instead of a good person, which you were before your personal property was snatched.

A devil saying to you, "Do unto others as they have done unto you." But to realize it is actually: "Do unto others as you wish to be done unto you". It's one GOOD turn deserves another, not one's BAD turn deserves another.

Items missing on your end, but pride and goodness as the ultimate result in the judging of your character as you continue to find and return items, not stealing them, even though you yourself was robbed.

Wishing all the world could be as good as you are.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Who are you? You are exactly just how you were and are now, not a change, wave after wave of water, different molecules in each wave of water, but still all water, water is water, each bubble of water comprised of similar cells, some living some not. Will water change you? Beavers like water and build their homes in water and clean their hands in water, beavers are from the rat family. Hands so dirty that even water with soap will not clean them. Are you rinsing off the sins from your hands, and then saying you committed no sins and are clean and good?

Jane Austen, never read her but pride is arrogance as puffed up as a Parrot fish. Said to be too good to eat pork, that because "they" say don't eat it, to not eat it. Who are they, and what is pork. Pork is a meat from the friendliest animal in existence. People own pigs as pets and they are known to be very affectionate pets, very true and loving. What are you eating when you eat pork? You are eating an understanding of the troubles of the poor and oppressed, and then developing loving-kindness for them instead of making them your customer and then ripping them off of money they do not have. Just go into the "red" and buy, buy, buy.

To go back to the piglet and to chew up meat to stay pure. The pork will cleanse your body and your mind, keep your soul pure, and it will save you from wickedness.

WHO OWNS ALL THE OIL? KING ABDULLAH

What is water? Water is H2O. It is a combination of electrons that bounce from level to level with protons and neutrons. Water is transparent not translucent, the state of being in translucency is for lunatics, blurring what you see because you are not qualified to see it, when water is translucent it is because it is filthy dirty. Go ahead imagine what you cannot see, imagine a sea that you see when you come to terms with the fact that the Red Sea when you see it, the Sea of "Reeds," never split and no one was drowned in it when the waves folded, even tsunamis realistically cannot perform this impossibility.

A Red Sea, a sea colored red, okay, there are iron deposits on its shore that ooze into the water and color it red, scientifically explainable. Red being the color of the suite of Santa Claus, not as red kosher wine, or the blood of an enemy. Mineral deposits all along the shores, not just of the Red Sea, many seas and seashores everywhere.

Oil? Your cooking olive oil will not feed your car vehicle to function, it is not olive oil we need, but instead Black Gold, not a wig of gold-ish blonde on someone's head, but Black Gold being the oil underground located in the neighborhoods of Jordan, Israel being surrounded by good Arab neighbors who own oil wells and they wish to share it. Who to sell it to and how much in quantity and for how much money? This is entirely the owner's choice.

Who actually has the power here, not braggarts of this power, just tilling oil everyday, like clockwork.

Is your gas tank full? Winter is coming and you'll need a full tank so the ice condensation does not freeze in your gas tank.

Happy Seasons Greetings Travels!!! 

AND WE ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Fuller Brush salesmen, wanting to take a piece of the cake, not frosting on this cake for them, so-called missionaries who are not on our same mission, a blah blah organization with an open purse for you to fill it, telling you that you need them, but our languages are not the same, forked tongues with which they speak, your mouthful is full of Mother's milk and there is no room for you in your fried Chinese rice for locusts to eat with or without a fork, spoon or chopsticks.

A spoonful of love from the rain outside as you extend your tongue out of your mouth to catch a cool raindrop, a real raindrop made of real water, no chlorine, no bleach, no detergent, not to say it is water when instead it is wine.

Open purses like mouths forcing make-believe stories for you to memorize, can you curl your tongue, can you swallow?

Time for a bedtime story? Only if the ending is "...and we all lived happily ever after. Amen."

HURRICANE VICTIMS BECOME HURRICANE SURVIVORS

Waving your arms to and fro up and down, back and forth as you stand on the edge of a tropical island after a hurricane become a tsunami, wondering where to get help, if to be a helicopter, need to be scooped up and taken to dry land. Praying for rain to wet a harvest and instead drowned in a pool, a pool of quicksand, buried up to the neck in soupy sands of quick not slow, feeling the grains all over your body creeping up to your neck.

In a country a state of emergency, wondering when and where to wander, to escape great waves of the deepest of waters, to trip over sand dunes, to not know where to go or how to get out.

Losing all property, everything you owned deeply drowned too, no trace of anything you once had, all gone, drifted downstream, some upstream, some swirled around in a drain-like hole, a black hole, never to be seen again. All your family photographs gone, all your inheritance property you once cherished not in existence anymore, wondering why to live, where to live, joining the homeless who have no jobs, your job too underground not to be, to be or not to be, do we have a choice?

Asking for charity when we once gave charity, owned a mansion where now we have a pile of garbage, wondering what we did wrong who will help us. After the hype has settled down and no one will help us again, water waves still drowning no evaporation, pools of sewer water no water to drink, radioactive water, it is where you step deep.

Red Cross, Blue Shield, do you have medical insurance? Here is a sleeping bag and a lunch bag, no shelter? Make your home in a Church.