WORDS AS FRIENDS

"Today, remember that with one word, we can change the day or the life of someone else." [Kabbalah Centre]

What word will you choose to save the life of someone else? Someone dying and words flying around like sirens, words in an emergency, so many words in so many different languages, a Tower of Babel becoming your home, your home becoming a place of words, like treasures in a puzzle game, to choose the right word, to have the right letters and numbers at a Bingo game, a cross word puzzle, searching for words.

Yelling words at the deaf, wondering why the deaf yells back?

What word to choose? Loving-kindness, mercy, strength, wisdom, understanding, balance, beauty and on and on.

Listening for the right word, hearing bits and pieces, not exposing the wrong word, never meaning to say it, apologizing and being forgiven, wishing everyone could choose only the right words, words being knowledge, knowing secretive words, keeping it all to yourself, not spreading the wrong words, bridling your tongue, using a sacred word as a mind mantra, having letters of the Hebrew language to form holy words, singing and chanting words that bring calmness and peace.

Always speaking the best of all words possible. Words that heal. Words that take you upwards into the heavens, words that lullaby you to sleep, no more words, the peace of silence envelopes you and tomorrow will be another day of words, keeping a word on your shoulder to pat you on the back, loving the word LOVE and having the word love you back.

Knowing just the right word to say at the right time. Words that bond you to others. Words that split you apart. Using holy words to chant a prayer, G-d hearing your words and replying. The words that bring closure to a sentence, the words that keep you holding on till the next time.

The 50 words that are names for G-d, the word that is your name. A word that means everything to you. The word shalom as peace. A word that talks back, a word to listen to, a word that was never said. A word that unites the heavens with the Earth, a word that feeds the hungry, a word that has power, a word we let slip away.

Words as friends, always on the tip of your tongue, a helping word, a word that solves all problems. Remembering this word and making it your word of all words, a word like no other.

Saying a word and then saying nothing. Having an echo of that word etched into your memory to bring you all of the very best of everything. A mighty word, a word of an endless sentence.

No more words, all is said. Closing one's eyes and never saying another word. All being said that needs to be said.

THE SWEET SOUNDS OF SILENCE AS MUSIC

The beautiful sounds of silence, no babies crying, no sounds jostling the brain, no gossip, no chit chat, no unwanted words or words that mean nothing, no words as sounds that do not matter, a silent night and a silent day, only words in music that flow by like a stream from a river, laughter and chuckles, silent smiles, laughter as words of holiness lifting up the corners of your mouth, nothing heard that one does not want to hear or need to hear.

The silence of a Sanctuary, hearing only a pin drop, listening only to a bird call or a lake water wave hit against the shore, hearing sweet singing, only the soft sounds of the tip tap of your fingertips on a computer keyboard, not soliciting words that mean nothing, not wanting to talk to say nothing, not interested in knowing what does not matter.

Picking up on a distant chuckle and letting it guide your mood hour to hour, people all around at a party that never ends, never starts and never ends. A party that comes everyday all day, a place where people have happiness and where this happiness continues, but as a silent movie, no sounds to hear that we do not like.

A silent time amidst a roaring of laughter like the roaring of rushing sounds from a waterfall beating against the rocks below, refreshing and stimulating, not intrusive, calming and soothing.

Hearing only your own heartbeat and the wind of your own breathing through your nostrils, steadily and surely, softly, silently, pussyfooting around in a dance on a red velvet carpet, everyday like clockwork, having a time of worship to G-d, having a time of contentedness, having the time of your life.

CULTIVATING A LOVE AND APPRECIATION OF SNOW

How to change a hatred of snow into a love for snow?

Hating messy dirty street snowfalls, hating the shoveling and all the manual labor, hating to fill up a snow-blower with gasoline, hating to fill up a car's gas tank with gas so it will not freeze up in frigid weather temperatures.

Being in a blizzard and hating it, wiping the snowflakes off your jacket like its dandruff, needing boots with thicker tread that stops a fall before it happens, to buy boots that wear higher up to your knees because the snow is deeper than ever outside. Having to bring a change of shoes to wear when you take off your boots because otherwise you would feel to warm.

Hating the slushiness of the snow as you walk in it, wetting your ankles and seeping through holes in your boots. Avoiding pools of water that form with the ice, like icebergs floating that you must jump over to avoid.

Where's the love? The love of snow that you had when you were first exposed to snow as a playful child? How can we transform our hatred of snow into a love for snow?

Soft white snowflakes coming down and catching them on the tip of our tongues whetting our mouths with its moistness, coolness as it is like a cold soda pop.

Building a fort in your backyard with your kids, forming a snowman out of 3 huge boulders of snow that you roll out like bread dough. Sticking a carrot stick into the snowman's nose and using bits of charcoal for his mouth and eyes. Shaking a snowman's hand as it is made of a stick and a glove, feeling like you have a friend in him. Showing him off to passers by on the streets.

Getting down on all fours and waving your arms in the snow to make a snow angel image, brushing the snow with your arms to form the wings. Enjoying its briskness and packing it down tightly.

Formulating a snowball and tossing it like a baseball, playing like a kid throwing snowballs in a battle, each ball obliterating upon contact after being thrown and meeting its target. Snowballs like cotton candy, tasteful with a lick like eating a frozen fruit slush. Ice cubes in your Coca Cola like snow cubes that are frosty and tasty.

Time to change a hatred of snow into a love of snow. Time to remember the good times and forget the bad. Time to always enjoy it all and never to let a bad experience taint your enjoyment of a natural phenomenon.

Going back indoors and cooking hot chocolate and guzzling it down to warm your throat, holding the heated mug in your cold hands, drinking chocolate sweetness that nurtures you like a baby's warm bottle of milk, tenderly and lovingly the drink slides down into a yearning tummy.

Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow! 

TREE BRANCHES HUGGING

Falling leaves from trees as tossed upon the ground by G-d's own hand, rough bark to pick and strip off a tree trunk to throw into water and watch it float downstream.

Sitting atop a large gnarly root exposed at the base of a tree's lap to sit in a seat like a throne that is raised up off the soiled ground.

Picking fruits from trees filtering out poisonous berries, picking leaves and scattering seeds, a cigar tree and her long green seedpods, matured brown seedpods crackling as we open them to examine their insides, their contents when planted will grow new trees.

Trimming trees, sculpting them like statues to disentangle branches to organize and clear them as a treetop's king's crown jeweled on your head, arms hugging tenderly, having room to spread out and grope her trunk with affection as she grows in freedom in a heavenly direction.

The torso of a tree like a human chest being strong and mighty, breathing, shooting out branches like human arms, the arms of a Hanukkah menorah, growing and seeing her get mightier as her branches glorify the sun and moon reaching up to them like hands as she guides our eyes raising our chins to scan the clouds.

To see the tops of the trees so we have a skyward view, a view of the source of Ein Sof.

A treetop that is a home created by G-d for birds who are angels to raise their families in nests of shelter, to feed young angels who then take flight and build their own nests in yet another top of a tree.

A stream of sunlight through her leaves. Sunrays, sunbeams, sun soaking warmth and pure white bright light in the middle of a dark, mournful, and icy winter morning. Trees hiding ghosts that are cast as large grey shadows from a sun's light that dances through her branches.

To have her to hug you and for you to hug her, to allow her arms to encircle your body and to squeeze you tightly.

To feel the tree's strength and awesomeness, to grow as she grows, to make a laurel of her leaves to put upon your head where you can pray and hide as in camouflage.

Living inside of a tree as a tree elf, sipping her sappy coconut juices like milk from your mother, never again to thirst, having a tree to provide for your every need, to love you as a friend.

REFLECTING YELLOW IN YOUR MOOD AND ACTIONS

How to appreciate colors? How to soak in the warmth of a yellow as sunshine on a dark cloudy day, seeing yellow painted walls and golden bricks on houses.

Letting the yellow come into your vision and then associate brightness and shininess with the yellow color, using your memory in combination with your imagination and then coloring a cloudy dark foggy day with a boost of yellow-ish glory, a golden medal of honor, a color to represent happiness and then to change your mood to happiness when you see this color, to allow it to change your mood like the skin of a chameleon changes with the colors in his environment.

Allow the color to bring you to lightness, to take you on a trip that is sunny and sandy like a beach, a yellow banana eaten by a chimp in a zoo, to be there at this zoo watching a chimp enjoy a yellow banana. To internalize its sumptuousness, to feel its upwards growth, to imagine yellow being all around you, to chase away ghosts, to brighten a dark day.

A yellow color in a candle flame just above the blue, a candle that lightens your eyes to seeing a dancing flame, a flame that beckons you too to dance with it. To see the yellow flame reflecting on your fingernail and knowing that yellow can penetrate your body towards actions of goodness lighted up with its moodiness turning into loving-kindness in a dark night.

Being with the color yellow all day long, not giving it up, not giving it away, choosing a yellow mood over all other moods, feeling yellow to bring you a great day.

Knowing G-d created yellow for you to enjoy it, seeing G-d in all yellow things.

GOD AS HEALER OF ILLNESSES

"For I am G-d your healer." [Torah]

Feeling like you are ill and in need of help, but what you need to cure your ills is not a medicine or a concoction? Want to trust it all to your doctor but tell your ills to your hairdresser instead? Knowing it is not a flu syrup that will cure your common cold? Having the knowledge that the side effects of most medicines cause you to feel worse after taking the medicine than you were before you took it. Hearing of deaths in the family and of your friends and wondering why G-d took them from you. Deciding yourself if your own choice is to live and not to die. Having a choice to be happy instead of sad, not letting upsets cause you an illness. Living through and despite an illness and constantly treating it so it does not get out of hand. Not allowing bad happenings to increase your illness because they increase stress.

If G-d is your healer, then the message to keep healthy is as written in His book The Torah, The Prophets and The Writings. If you read "the Bible" will it cure your illness? How can G-d cure your illnesses? We cannot even see G-d, how is something we cannot see able to be our doctor?

G-d is all about choosing life over death, and a quality life over a life going nowhere. Not indulging in competition or coveting will significantly lower your stress as coveting increases stress and stress increases illness.

What if you are in a relationship where the other person constantly covets? It can be them who do the coveting and them who break the Commandment and you must continue to not indulge in this 2 way battle. You cannot change another and complaining about him just makes it worse.

Solution? Let him continue to covet but you do not. His coveting should not be a reason for you to covet. And his coveting should not be a reason for you to give up what you have to stop him from coveting it. Know that G-d is controlling your speech and actions but not his. Do not do as he does. G-d forbids coveting and this is a Commandment. If someone covets you, do not indulge in coveting anyone just because you feel the pain of being coveted by another. You cannot control the amount of pain others inflict on themselves, but you can control the pain you inflict on yourself.

Ask G-d to heal you, do not covet, do not bark just because all the other dogs are barking. Choose aloneness if this be the case, in following the Commandments, and reap the benefits. Do not get sick just because someone else is sick. Do not choose to covet, no matter how much and how often others choose to covet you.

G-d is indeed your healer, study and obey Torah and sip it with a cup of hot tea, let G-d give you the choices and then for you to make the right ones. 

A DAILY MORNING WALK WITH THE DIVINE

Does someone love you? What can you do to love him back? If it is a human relationship then there are earthly choices you have to show him your love: give a gift, do an act of loving-kindness for him, listen to him, put your trust in him, give him an allotment of your time, treat him as though he is special to you, ask him about his daily activities, show an interest.

If it is G-d who you love and want to show Him that you love Him, you need to study His Torah, and to thank Him for all He has bestowed upon you, and to praise Him for His miraculous activities that were and are now. Sweetly singing to Him to show Him you love Him, whispering words to Him, reciting blessings, performing acts of ritual mitzvoth, respecting the Day of Rest of Shabbat, and closing Shabbat with a candle ceremony of the Havdalah.

Be in Him and with Him every step of the way. Feel His aura around you as you can feel all good things, to reject temptation and evil inclinations, to work for Him being His servant, to let others know of His goodness, to teach others, to enclose yourself in a tallit of protection around your shoulders, sticking only with the positive, excluding gossip and slander, bowing to the east and quietly moving in His space.

Any warmth and comfort that you feel on your skin is due to Him and His love for you, any good taste in your mouth is because He is guiding your words or keeping you in soothing silence.

If you ever have an itch, it is to remind you to keep Him in your thoughts and heart, to go back to the source of your creation, your Maker. Let an itch remind you to always follow His 613 commandments and to never betray Him or give Him up.

If you slip up, know it is human to error and to go back and return to Him for He will always forgive you and take you back in love. Give up false doctrine and call upon the Almighty G-d to again take you into His mighty arms and to continue your life here on Earth under His protection. Turn down all temptations and be in Him with Him and for Him.

TO LOVE HONOR AND RESPECT YOURSELF

Sticking with a comforting covenant, an agreeable agreement, even if it is just an agreement that you make with yourself having no one else involved. To act accordingly within its limits and to earnestly try to overcome temptations that would break your covenant. Keeping on the straight and narrow, to not slip up, to not give in to addictions, to keep trying to do what is right, what will bring health and happiness as a long range goal and then reality.

To stay away from those people who encourage slip ups, to have an independent self support system of a purpose, focus, and intention to keep going on a path that leads forward to righteousness and strength. To increase the power of your "kavana" your reason to be. To know that just being alive is a goal and to stay alive, to be, to continue using one's strengths.

To work towards becoming holier, to have an improvement in one's skills and to have a pointed direction where the actualization of one's skills bring a benefit to one's environment and others who live in it, a self-actualization, a reason to stay alive and contribute to society.

To be there for yourself, and in doing so, being there for others who can take your actions as an example, to lead as you go forth solving your everyday problems so you can be there for others, and they see you leading and will follow and problems will become solved.

To give up self idolization and be humble and selfless, to give everything you have for the benefit of another human being. To follow through and not give up on your goals, and to not give up on them.

To have an expectation of yourself and to expect others to take what you have to give them, offering only the best of what you have and hoping they will take it.

To love, honor and respect. And this starts with loving, honoring and respecting yourself.

OUR INNER MUSIC AS A RAM'S HORN ALL YEAR ROUND

If the ram of the horn of the Shofar was to talk instead of squeal, what would it say? Deciphering the words of the shouting call of the wild as heard once a year. To think it out and to give words to its song. Hearing a song of alarm and to seek protection and to perform action.

Today, what would the Shofar say to me?

When tired not to soak up on coffee, when tripping over your feet do not stand or walk, when fatigued take a nap, when thirsty imbibe in pure water, when your muscles are stiff stretch them, when your muscles limp sorely do not give up on walking, when you think a faulty thought do not act upon it, when you have something to say tell someone you trust, if you trust no one then tell no one.

If you are crying then cry to someone who will not tell you to stop, if you keep trying to solve a problem but cannot solve it keep trying.

If you love someone who you cannot see then accept the loss and go on and see someone else, if you want someone to know how you feel then tell them, if you are tired and cannot control your emotions then do not act upon them, if you have a complaint that is never changed then accept it and live with it, if you do not like something that someone says or does do not be a judge of their character instead control what it is you say and do.

Listen for the call of the angels and be glad you are listening even if you cannot hear them. Keep trying even if all is lost. Do not look back, look forward to new circumstances, do not become a pillar of salt. Listen for G-d even if you cannot hear Him, do what you think G-d would tell you to do if you talked to Him and He responded.

Give up lost battles and create new spaces new places. Look to the east and bow. Sing a song that keeps your feet tapping, do not lose sight of your goals. Continue always to improve and then to improve some more.

Rest on Shabbat and take the day off to celebrate the holy day of Saturday that comes once a week. Always to look forward to this holy day to celebrate, to rest. Knowing that all work will cease and a rejuvenation will take place. Living every day in expectation of the 7th day of the week when all will come to an end to start up again but after you rested. Take the rest you feel on Shabbat and apply its principles to everything you do and say on the weekdays. Following what your body tells you to do. Giving up your battles and instead creating fences of protection and soliciting peace.

A Shofar calls us to action during the week, and calls us to rest on Shabbat. Hearing its words as told to us with our inner self wisdom, to know why a ram's horn cries and how to follow its advice.

Singing our inner music as a ram's horn, but all year round.

LETTING GO LETTING GOD

"Your place is the wilderness. The bread you eat falls from heaven. Your basket is in your hands.
Clutch your basket tight in your hands, and your manna will have no place to rest. Open it up to whatever falls from heaven, and your basket will always be full." [Chabad.org]

Looking always forwards, never to let a past hardship hinder your upwards climb.

To be a forgiver of the bull who stampedes at your farm, to wave a red cape to show your oxen to his food, to feed him green grass not corn, to give up half of what you have to give to another, to see the manna then fall as snowfall, to chill your manna for storage for another day, always to have more.

To be a wise man, to listen to the oral history of your parents, to have nothing to tie you back, to not need any new thing of the material world instead to be happy with your lot, to fill your cups with what the heavens have to offer you, to then eat until contented, to not ask for more, to receive more the less you ask,

To be self-sufficient, to have your own prayers and your own song, to sing the song of your ancestors. To listen only for the call of G-d, hearing Him in the song of the birds and hum of the waters of the seas, to see Him in a cloud, to watch the birds then bathe in His natural waters.

To feel His comfort in an upholstered chair and also when you sit on the soft grass under a tree.

To know He is protecting you when you walk in snow and ice but do not fall. Picking yourself up when you are in a struggle, to continue on your forward path.

To be warm in your nest, to actualize your desires, to be promised that all your wishes will come true, and for you then to cause them to come true.

To always know that a problem can be solved.

A VISION OF A VISIONLESS GOD

Family wholeness a family without holes, never ever to ever be critical, instead in covenant of peacefulness with an end to verbal abusiveness, not calling the kettle black, instead cooking soup and serving it in spoonful amounts to baby birds with open begging beaks.

A call to the wild, to be wild oneself, to feed the needy and never to withhold the dessert.

A desert of starving chicks to be complimented, to be encouraged, to grow up into angels, to hear singing instead of complaints.

To be the bandleader, to wave a wand to lead an orchestra, to sing a solo to be joined by a choir. To know all the words to the songs and to have them in the daily beat of your foot.

To smile instead of to frown, to say hello instead of good bye, to offer someone a treat instead of dirt, never begging for food.

To say yes instead of no, to affectionately wink a wink of approval, to mean what you say, to always be truthful and trustworthy, to continue to do all this everyday, day to day, hour to hour, without a hesitant moment, always singing in the same song.

Smelling roses as a result, sitting comfortably never without a bed or chair, watching a sun rise and then a sun set, always after a full night of sleep, every morning sunray causing you happiness, every sunset giving you a royal purple vision, a vision of the yod, hey, vav, hey.

G-d being victorious in all happenings that happen to you, a vision that is not a vision but that is written in Hebrew, a Hebrew vision, no visions of G-d, instead a G-d that is all visions, nothing anywhere that is not created by G-d.

G-d being everywhere and being everything.

SISTERLY BROTHERLY BRETHREN SINGING SONGS OF LOVE

Bonding with brotherly brethren, singing sisterly love, fiercely fighting sibling rivalry, giving kind compliments and showering her with penetrating praise, having heavy heartfelt great goodness, keeping away from the bad Baal, being a good example, here is hoping she benefits from my powerful peaceful prayers.

She is slashing out at sea monsters, saving lives, coming to our aid, bringing good gifts of full tummy foods and potent medicine for the elderly.

She is suddenly surrounded by friends because she can be a friend.

Everyday schlepping through wind, snow and rain to her job to work, everyday earnestly earning a hard half dollar to put full foods on her tiny table for her hungry children, a single mother.

Accomplishing it all herself, riding faster horses, faster than ambulances, sprinkling gold dust as she flies, singing a melody that I taught her.

She has hope. Hope for her family to have lives of longevity, to share and lift her life with us as long as the sun burns, an eternity of bright bliss, to always share of herself so we can all enjoy her.

Sisterly love, brotherly love, "Never hate your sister/brother in your heart." [Torah]

LOVE YOURSELF LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

Wanting to be helpful, to be useful, to cure the sick, to cause happiness to the depressed, to build a shelter for the homeless, to give food to the hungry, to be the transportation to the grounded, to talk to someone who is lonely, to develop a long lasting relationship, just to connect briefly to say I care.

Deeply in prayer, petitioning to G-d, singing t'efilah, asking Him to come towards the Earth to care for my loved ones, to bring peace to a warring mind, to take out all the struggle, to nurture and saturate with kindness.

To bring wisdom to the seeker of knowledge, to teach us survival techniques, to bring peace to those in discomfort, to take away physical pain, to cause the blind to see again, to raise someone from death, to bring him life again.

To live to celebrate another Rosh Hodesh, to live to see a new moon again and again. To have a new month, that initiates a new life, a new thought, brings new kindnesses to your neighbor, to love your neighbor, to teach him how to have peace, to forever be in peace, to never be in war.

TO LOOK DEEPLY INTO MY DARK BROWN EYES

Blindness, not being able to see, squinting of one's eyes in the sun, getting old and losing one's vision, medical science curing blindness with eye implants, eye pressure too high called glaucoma, pain in the eye, soothing eye drops with side effects of depression and lethargy, laser surgery like a magic wand to stop the eye from getting an infusion of light, too much computer screen light, brightness that impairs vision, fluorescent lights glaring and blaring. Wearing eyeglasses, plastic lenses that scratch, getting bifocals, trifocals, and on and on.

The miracle of medical science, G-d gave sight to the blind and He cured the lepers from their skin disease, He raised the dead from dying.

Perfect eye sight, no eye pains, no trouble seeing, regular eye doctor visits, beating the trouble with healthy eye care. Being good to one's eyes, looking at the beautiful not the ugly. Closing one's eyes in rest in an afternoon nap. Not forcing your eyes to stay open longer than they can, blinking to wet the eyeball with tears, not over-tiring yourself and your eyes, reading but not so much so that your eyes rebel.

Having bright eyes, cheery eyes, happy eyes, eyes that do not intrude on other's spaces, eyes of deep brown pools of gorgeousness, eyes that see and eyes that show compassion towards others' afflictions.

Winking with one eye to show affection, to catch someone's attention, showing understanding through the eyes with a good attention span, winning staring wars, averting one's eyes not to challenge, smiling eyes that welcome others' eyes to smile back at you.

Using one's eyes to perceive beautiful colors and to create lovely crafts. Training one's eyes to see the minutest detail, having vision and hand coordination to create a work of art.

Loving one's own eyes, loving others' eyes, showing love with your eyes as you look deeply into another's eyes.

Seeing is believing. But to know that things exist that we cannot see. To be able to perceive with an imagination and not to must see it. To not to see G-d but to know He exists. To pray to G-d in thanks of our eyes, to ask G-d for help to keep our eyes healthy.

AN APPRECIATION OF FOODS AND AN END TO WORLD HUNGER

Stomach discomfort, eating too much, not eating enough, ulcerated stomach lining, heart burn, reflux pains, indigestion, mixing milk with meat not waiting 4 hours, not fully fasting on a Jewish Fast Day, eating just to fill oneself, not eating for taste, stomach uneasiness, taking Probiotics, family history of bulimia, food allergies, eating large meals with no snacks in between, taking Mylanta, not eating enough greens, kosher meats with every meal, kosher dairy when there is no meat, eating yoghurt to balance the digestive juices, not wanting to eat but always having food, feeling hunger and being glad to be hungry, knowing where your next meal is coming from when others do not, always having a dessert.

Resting after meals instead of working, letting it all digest, not swimming after eating, watching so it is all kosher, not having a worry connected with food, eating just to eat, eating on-the-go, standing up when you are eating, over-eating, under-eating. Glad to be eating at all.

Not complaining about foods, not wanting more or wanting less. Eating to stay healthy, knowing there are those who are not eating at all.

Thankful to G-d before one eats and after one eats, singing blessings, glad to be getting foods, sharing the foods with others, hoping and praying for an end to world hunger. 

TO HAVE A FRIEND TO BE A FRIEND

"Your friend has a friend, and the friend of your friend has a friend."

- Talmud, Ketubot 109b

Friends, people who are not in your family, people who are not related to you by blood, the guy next door, the pal at work, someone who visits you at your home, a guy who is nice to you, a person who helps you through hard times, someone who gives you a pat on the back, a man who carries something for you that is too heavy for you, a person who stays in touch over time, someone who writes to you, a person who is not adverse with you.

The chain links go on and on, your friend has a friend and he has a friend and he has a friend.

A friend is a friend in need and is therefore a friend indeed. Glad to have friends who lend a hand, who give me that needed smile to get through a day, a person who is always glad to hear from me.

To have family and friends, to have it all.

THE GOODNESS OF THE TZADDIK

"This service consists of the struggle against one’s evil nature with the aim of overpowering it, and banishing it from the “small city” i.e., the body, which is like a city whose conquest is the objective of both the good and the evil nature." [Tanya]

Banishing evil from the body and hence the soul, how to banish evil, how to think the thoughts of the tzaddik, how to think all good thoughts and never let evil thoughts into one's mind. A tzaddik teaching how to love, how to live, how not to give in to having evil intention. 

Thinking a good thought, having true love on the tip of one's tongue like a drop of honey that reflects in all words. Words like righteousness, loving-kindness, milk, honey and manna, the quenching of one's thirst after a spicy meal, the quenching of the thirstiness of others, food aplenty for all to eat, a party where everyone is invited, no passwords needed for membership, a place where all are welcome and not interrogated before entrance. 

Evil leaving the soul and goodness coming in with the air we breathe, clean air, clean thoughts, not vengeful, no hatred, no jealousies, not anything to covet, encouragement for the betterment of everyone, only the priests receiving more than the others, a place where everyone gets his needs met and then a little bit more so he is full and sated, in an easy position, in a place of sanctity. 

Holiness in all places, on everyone's lips, holy kosher foods digesting in everyone's stomachs.

A place that is good, with people who are good, eating foods that are good, thinking thoughts that are good, using speech that is good, performing actions that are good. 

"Good" being a state of mind that never leaves but that increases in quantity and quality at all future moments. A condition for which to strive.

RETURN RETURN RETURN TO HASHEM

"The waters of the Nile turn to blood; swarms of frogs overrun the land; lice infest all men and beasts.  Hordes of wild animals invade the cities; a pestilence kills the domestic animals; painful boils afflict the Egyptians.  For the seventh plague, fire and ice combine to descend from the skies as a devastating hail.  Still, "the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he would not let the Children of Israel go, as God had said to Moses." [Torah]

Today is the official end to Xmas. An end of a holiday of a religion of Christianity that is a religion that put the Almighty G-d on a shelf and instead worships a lesser god who is a ghost of a human who is worshiped because he did not follow the Jewish Law, he was made a god because of his rebellion. The signs of G-d from the Plagues were not remembered, and instead of thanking a greater true G-d, a ghost becomes one's friend and is called a god.

My G-d of the Hebrew people is the greatest G-d and only G-d, there are no secondary or trinity gods, my G-d is the King of the Heavens, and as a jealous G-d, I would not want to worship any other god in His stead, this division of one's love for more than one god, having a multi-god system, lessens the power of the G-d who is the Almighty, and a secondary god instead gets love and worship, but this human dead god has no power. He has not the power to protect you. An understanding of the one and true Almighty gives a person a share in His power, and a person therefore is better protected and worships the greater of all the higher powers, and this greatness transfers from one's great G-d onto one's person, and hence, you become greater in imitation of a greater G-d, being under His care.

Temptations turn into addictions, and once you fall into the wrong hands, it is very difficult to climb back up and out.

Return, return, return, "avakesh" to HASHEM, the forgiving G-d, the loving G-d, He will always take you back. 

SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL

"Moses was afflicted with a speech impairment so that no one should think that his success in transmitting the Torah to the world was due to his oratory skills."
- Derashot HaRan

Speaking only when spoken to, not speaking when spoken to, in control at all times of what words you exchange with others, having uncircumcised lips as Moses did, keeping the sound of your music to yourself, speaking words of purity, not speaking at all.

Hearing no evil, seeing no evil, speaking no evil. Not letting loose one's thoughts, having a bridle on one's mouth, thinking before you speak, saying only agreeable words, not looking for a fight or argument, keeping one's words all clean, not jumping into the wrong words, holding back impure speech, not gossiping, not challenging, not criticizing or insulting. Having holy silent moments, not intruded upon, not jostled or exposed.

The written word over the spoken word. Having all thoughts come through one's fingers on a typewriter keyboard, hands holding back the wrong words, seeing words that are never spoken but as written oaths, writings as covenants with G-d, words that are holy, words that are not wasted, words you can read over and over again, to understand what is written, to not hear what is spoken.

To be in the right words at all times, to always type words of love, goodness, and righteousness, to not be steered in the wrong direction, to not be cheated or lied to.

To have a command of the written word, to always write the truth, to not be afraid to write the truth.

To hold one's speech and feel peace.

TEACHING PEACE AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT

Having the most to say, but saying the least. Quiet moments to inspire peace during noisy times. Withholding one's tongue, not jumping in and barking when the other dogs bark, having great restraint, teaching only those who learn, learning from those who do not teach, teaching anyone who has a desire to learn, not being equipped with an ability to learn, but learning more than is taught.

Getting one's information from sunbeams and moonwalks, not knowing anymore than the other guy, not knowing how you lived so long, not knowing how to stay healthy, not knowing what makes you sick, turning a sickness into a livelihood.

Keeping well fed and well watered, knowing what will cause you death, staying far away from a participation in uneasiness, talking only to those who do not listen, remembering things that she does not, not remembering what does not matter.

Saying you are able to teach when you are not even able to learn, knowing things that the other guy does not, keeping it all a secret, reading books that were burned, knowing a foreign language no one speaks but that will bring you peace.

Promising to share one's peace with anyone who will listen, teaching you how to feel this peace.

EIN SOF AND BRIGHTNESS OF THE GOODNESS OF LIGHT

Meditating deeply on the greatness of the blessed Ein Sof.

Ein Sof is the light in the darkness, the warmth in the coldness, the brightness in the dullness, the quiet that is in the noise, the solitude that is in the crowd, the smile among the frowns, the good intentions among the bad, the softness where there is roughness, the ease where there is strife.

Ein Sof is everything we have that we love, to have ourselves, to have it easy and comforting, this is Ein Sof.

Ein Sof is to satisfy a beggar, to give what you have to the poor, to reach upwards but to humbly bow downwards, to stand on one foot during the Amidah, to know you are but dust, but to also know of your greatness, to combine the bad with the good and to have the good come out on top.

To try to be gentle is Ein Sof, to correct someone who is wrong, but to do it gently so as not to criticize, to reap in the benefits of correct actions, actions, words and deeds that help to better another, to cause improvement, to make life easier for everyone involved. To teach but also to do what it is you teach others to do, to not be a hypocrite.

Ein Sof, the guide to G-d, the upwards climb, the finding of the treasure at the end of the rainbow.

PRAYING AT HOME ON SHABBAT

"Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day"—Exodus 16:29

It is forbidden on Shabbat to travel more than 2,000 cubits (approximately 3000 ft.) out of a city's parameters."

No traveling and no working on Shabbat, not to travel away from one's home, staying within your town, being at home sweet home, praying at home, lighting candles at home. Singing the candle-lighting blessing, covering one's eyes, feeling the warmth of the flame, its brightness on your own hearth, in your own habitat, not going far away, being in familiar surroundings, being at home.

Spending the morning in bed, or in prayer at a Shul, resting longer and more complete than you usually do on a weekday. Feeling the peace of G-d's protection as the rest encompasses your body and mind, soul and heart.

Dressing up in your finest clothing, putting on a beautiful outfit to flair to others, to identify as being Jewish, to keeping up the ritual tradition of resting on a Saturday, to dancing on a Friday night, to welcoming the Shabbat Bride into your home.

To know G-d is in all places, that He is "macom" [The Place].