WHY DON'T JEWS BELIEVE IN JESUS

His name they said was Jesus. His father Joseph refused to name him Emanuel even though the prophecy was that the true Messiah would be born with the name Emanuel.

Then we find out that this man who was to be called a god was born out of an adulterous relationship between Mary his mother and Tobias a Roman soldier. And even if this is something we want to deny, not to believe, not to cast ill feelings upon him or his parentage, but then they said his father was God, and that he was born the son of God.

We are all children of God, Jesus was not the only one born having this relationship as a "son" of God. The teachings of Jesus are to disobey the teachings of the true Father, the true God, so what kind of a son is this! A son who disobeys his father Adonai and this is why he is revered?

Can we as Jews forgive Jesus so we do not carry a grudge with us as heavy as a backpack of books?

The Muslims whose prophet Mohammed is revered because he killed eight hundred Jews in one swipe! And the Muslims love Jesus as well, and revere him as their prophet too. How can killings of Jews or anyone for that matter, be approved in either religion! Are the Jews the only people who believe in "We Shall Not Murder"?

Yes, we are to respect others' religions but that does not mean we can approve of these religions that propagate murder. Can we as Jews defend ourselves and fight back if someone tries to kill us, and say they are killing us in the name of the Quran? Or in the name of Jesus? Can we forgive Jesus, and Mohammed for that matter, for living a life to disobey justice, to kill? 

Can we stay united in our Judaism with other Jews and not sway back and forth like a broken palm branch to and fro between this cult and that cult?

Jonestown murders? Juices that were poisoned and wiped out everyone, everyone killed at a party saying it was done in the name of their religion!

Don't ever let anyone take away your music. If you are a Jew, stay a Jew, and always find your way back into Judaism no matter how enticing what someone else has, to instead be who you want to be. Do you know what you want?

My Father Emanuel Ginsburg told me "Jews do not believe in Jesus." And that is that, there is no more. End of story.

Call upon Avraham and Sarah, our true parents, love Leah and Rachel, adore Jacob and Isaac. Sing to Rivkah. Worship Adonai and only Adonai.

Never forget this song, kiss it in your memory as you eat and thank God for your food and for everything he has ever given you.

Love Adonai, and keep the peace. Can we forgive those who dishonor Him? This is not a requirement.

Psalms 37 and 38 tell us those who dishonor Adonai will wither like yellow grass and disappear from our existence and we will be done with their wickedness.

Leave it all in God's Hands. Love those who love you and protect them, love your family even if they cannot feel true love, love and peace to all, who is "all" this is you and me, and anyone who wishes to feel true love, love of humans for humans, love of a true God, a God who created the Universe, a God to be loved and respected. The God, not "a" God, there is only One God and we are all His children, we are all the sons and daughters of God.

Amein, in the Name of Adonai. Period. Selah.

JUST SAY "DEAR GOD..."

Reasons to be glorious on Hanukkah, how to connect with The One True Almighty God, our Father of Avraham and Sarah, our Creator of all things, our electric energy to our Lord, the reasons for us to stay alive, the Lord, the reason for us to be, to be or not to be, if we can be with Him, we are and will continue to be the best we can be.

Look NOW! Where is God? God is not where there is blood in meat. We know this as our Torah tells us this, to have eaten Kosher for lunch? God was in our food! Our body cells are pure, our blood is clean. No, we are not what is in our dumpsters out back of our houses, we ask God to keep us clean. Do you mean all we need to do is keep our hands clean and our diet Kosher? We need to ask God to help us with these tasks, it is when He does, that we are then connected with Him. 

Just say "Dear God..."                          

STUDY JUDAISM ON SUNDAYS

Judaism on Sundays? What did God give us Sundays to do? A Sunday, the first day of our week, a day to study. What can we study?

Print out daily lessons from Chabad.org and read them. Which lessons are the best to read?

Chumash with Rashi, Tehellim, Daily Tanya, Daily Mitzvah, and Hayom Yom.

You can never read too much or study too much. If your eyes get tired, rest them. Turn down the brightness of the lamps. Actually, in the Orthodox Talmud, the Talmud tells us not to never study by lamplight, not at night, when we need lamps. So, not to study after sunset.

To study on a satiated stomach after eating, about an hour after eating, when your stomach is done churning your meal. To be sure to eat meat, at least once a day, or fish, and to have this protein in your digestive system, to study upon good sustenance. If you are hungry you will not be able to comprehend the context of the holy Words of The Torah. Meat? Yes, but only Kosher meat. That means meat without blood, meat that was blessed upon its slaughter. Never to mix meat with milk. The Torah commands this, not for a kid (goat) to be eaten in its Mother's breast milk.

So, now you are set up. You know what to study and what to eat, when to eat, why to eat, why to study, why to eat and study during the day and not at night.

Have a ball studying what turns you from a wolf into a lamb. Being a lion who rests in a meadow of the greenest of gardens, the Garden of Eden, laying down next to and with the soft sweetness of a beautiful lamb.

CAN YOU TURN DOWN A CHRISTMAS GIFT?

Tinsel on trees and lighted evergreen branches, gifts galore under this tree? Are you Jewish and asked to participate in this gift giving? Are there items you receive as gifts that are rituals of other religions as Christian Christmas gifts to you? Can we turn down these gifts? Should we make a simitz (a big deal) about this and call it disrespect? Each year, year after year, you receive Christmas gifts, so what to do? We need to work with those people who do not understand The Laws of Judaism, that Jews do not celebrate Christmas, instead we celebrate Hanukkah.

So, we can indeed keep these gifts if you want the neutral ones, and see them as Hanukkah gifts, not to observe them as Christmas gifts. You cannot yell and scream and jump up and down because the gift giver each year uses Christmas time as a time to proselyte Christianity to you when you are a committed religious Jew. Each year take it as another year to heal from disrespect and to realize the gift giver is in darkness, cause as much as you try to work with him/her the same occurrence happens, and what can we do?

Ask our Holy God to see us through another winter season, a time to be warm and well fed. To be in prayers for those who do not have a relationship with Adonai our true God. They instead worship the rebel Jesus when what they have is a choice not to worship him but to love the true God, the same God of Jesus, our Father Hashem. To try to understand they come from a lack of the knowledge base that teaches people true lovingkindness.

Can we give a gift back in this situation? Jacob the Torah Prophet did, he met his brother Esau's armies with loads of beautiful gifts!! He is our example to follow.

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanza! 

HOW TO OVERCOME DIZZINESS

Are you walking on a tightrope with high heel shoes? First and foremost, take off the shoes and wear gym shoes instead. Balancing back and forth, a dizziness as we float in a canoe paddling to and fro, a canoe that we hope will not sink, a rod in one's hands as a balancing beam.

Above deep water waves rolling over your body, sound waves, light waves, electronic waves, cyberspace shooting through one's body tilting you as you walk.

A powder in one's drink that follows you everywhere, walking slowly through ice and snow, knowing there is a rainbow at the end of every thunderstorm, if not, you can create one with your imagination as did Albert Einstein.

Vertigo? Is anyone responsible for the ups and downs? As we travel up, we are as high as Mount Sinai, as we then come down, we are at the bottom of an ocean where we can look for sunken treasure.

Do you want to tell someone you are dizzy? Vertigo going through one ear and out the other? Wondering why and what you did wrong to get this dizziness. Have you ever heard of "Dizzy Lizzy"?

A member of a family whose inherited roots are from the Eastern European country of Czeskia. The National Sport of Czeskia being Gymnastics. Each step you take as sure as a professional gymnast, a ballerina, follow your intuition and each step will get easier one after the other, the tightrope stiff and sure as you get where you want to go. 

Almost as fun as drinking a beer? Not when you are driving a car! Smelling salts? Good idea, smear a potent perfumed lotion under your nostrils, and you not only will be smelling good, your dizziness will be curbed. Remember the old cowboy movies with the dame who is whoozy and about to faint? A cowboy catches her in his arms and applies the salts and she awakes as a Sleeping Beauty no more.

Jumping up and down as like on a trampoline, wind swishing through your ears, your eardrums' cochlea is stable-footed as is your family inherited gymnastics balancing acts.

Being at a circus to see the bearded ladies, flying out of a helicopter in a parachute, each day after day a struggle to overcome obstacles. A tiger jumping through a hoop, a pirate's parrot on your shoulder singing your favorite songs. 

Using this struggle to firm up your muscles and to accomplish what you thought was impossible, but that has instead become manageable as you fight an enemy who you cannot see or hear or touch or smell.

A powder you swallow like Kool-Aid sweet grape drinking powder. Wondering if you cannot function while sniffing Kool-Aid? 

You actually have become the star performer at the National Olympics!!

AN EYE FOR AN EYE

Now how does this work? An eye for an eye? There are people in businesses who will sell you a faulty product, do you stab the salesman in the eye as revenge to get back at him and his unethical consumer's product? If a doctor gives you the disease of Glaucoma, his choice for you, do you get him back an eye for an eye? There are people who have jobs and the jobs require that you as their employee hurt someone if it brings them money. They pretend the product is flawless, and this is what they do day after day, going to work, to a job, and hurting people again and again. Is it their fault? Or the fault of their employer, or his employer? How can we realize that these people in these unethical jobs need our prayers more than the people they hurt. The people they hurt are immediately protected by God, G-d, our Lord, L-rd, and the offender is not. These people pull in paychecks and are told their jobs are very dangerous because the people they are told to hurt will get revenge. An eye for an eye. The fault lies not with these robots, their incitement of people to fight back and return hatred for hatred, could conquer a giant like Goliath. The haters being Goliath and the good as our ancestors David.

So what will we do? The eye for the eye has already been accomplished, now we wait for our supper/dinner and eat in plenty with a nourishing restful nap after we eat. The ones who are hurt are the ones who will survive, and the Goliaths will fall, as we as our Great Grandfather fell them, a cigar after a cigar, you being addicted to nothing, them waiting for two weeks for another paycheck and finding there is no more employment, to stand on the unemployment lines, to sleep instead on the beach.

While you are peacefully going from one meal to the next.

THE LETTER "B" IS FOR BLESSED

Returning to God, our Lord, as G-d or L-rd, or HaShem, or Adonai. The first syllable to speak or meditate on as a mantra or prayer, as the "B" sound, the second not first letter of the alphabet, why? We put G-d first, G-d as "A" as in Adonai, an alpha beta, but we pray on ourselves as second only to G-d, as in the "B" in Baruch, which means blessing. My first name also begins, as we see even the word "B"egins starts with a letter B, and as Beth or Batyah, Beth is significant to "B"eing (another letter B!) as we live and let others live, not to B an evergreen swayed in the wind with porcupine needles as also has a rose, not to stick anyone even when they think they are the Alpha Dog, and that the letter "A" represents them, and this is because they do not put the true Hebrew G-d first.

Amazing things happening all the time? If your answer is yes, this is the Hebrew G-d Who is your causation. But if you do not believe in the true G-d, then you have no one to thank for your beautiful life.

Surrounded instead by spirits, when we and you know we are not allowed to practice witchcraft, and then to say someone else (with a big nose) is the witch, so to say you are clean, and others are not. G-d will come to you if you are lucky and He will bless you, "B"less, yes, you guessed it, another B.

Blessed are you who return to Adonai.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY CHANUKAH

What to do to stay clean? Not to shake the hand of a woman? To instead imagine this woman without clothing and to call this pureness. Where do germs cultivate and who is dirty and who is not? Water not with soap to chase away germs? Water to chase away evil, but you sin again and again. To know what is evil and what is not. To think you are so good and pure that you must separate yourself from the communities of the world in order to remain so-called "pure".

Segregation in stores targeting minorities and the rich, Christmas hype to cheapen the story of Christmas and combine the birth of Jesus with the purchasing of expensive gifts, diamonds and electronics, spend spend spend. Who is it who is telling us to spend? Shop owners of course. Spending and buying is not perpetrated by the Christians, but rather those who oppose the Christian religion to cause us to covet during this time of the year. Coveting what the next guy has that you don't. So, ask for it for Christmas, put it on your Christmas list? Buy it for less during this winter holiday season.

Not to shoot missiles in the form of gifts as is encouraged this time of the year. Know the true story of the birth of Jesus and not to introduce lies and hate.

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah. 

PLANTS THAT ARE LIKE PEOPLE

Seeing green everywhere you look, green leaves, leaves that look like human hands from human arms that are called branches, wrists that are the stems on leaves as they attach to branches, wrists onto arms.

Movement constantly, always a breeze, may to be just a slight breeze, but always leaves moving in even the smallest breeze, leaves nodding like chins, up and down, a tree that approves, a nod as the leaves applaud you and your achievements.

A Maple tree leaf with three triangular projections on its surface, veins capillaries in the leaf taking water instead of blood to all ends of the leaf to feed the leaf with water, nutrients of compost in the soil, healthy leaves, seeds spreading of Maple trees winding up like helicopters, flying as far as the breeze takes it, colored red and green in autumn, with hints of yellow to light up the leaf as if surfacing the yellowness of the sun.

Autumn, you cannot deny it, it is a beautiful season in some countries, a season of a family of trees, leaves shaking hands with you, spreading into compost feeding the soil, vegetarian delights, greenness and orange, red vegetables and yellow.

A tree and then another tree, great California Redwoods, hearing a tree fall in a forest, being the only one to hear it. Yes, it fell, and made a sound and you are the only witness, we believe in you.

Schoolyards filled with learning students, paper in their notebooks created from the wood of trees. Would I, could I? Weeding our gardens, to be or not to be. Shaking a spear like Shakespeare, students becoming great authors, books leafing as we turn the papers. Spreading gold leaf on paintings, not to be touched. When a leaf dies and falls from its Mother Tree it changes into a color of gold, gold without water, a dried withering leaf, gold as the color of its death, metallic nothingness. Whiteness being the color of life instead, white everywhere in the cleanness of your thoughts and actions as you love with or without white snow.

Flowers like the white, red or pink velvety Rose blossom, soft petals as soft as a baby's skin, but thorns to warn those who would pick it, a "Do Not Disturb" no trespassing sign. To clip it, snip! Like the cutting of the umbilical cord, but to touch it in a tactile manner on its soft blossoms, with no thorns no blood. To gently touch the pollen as it collects inside, an orangey color, powdery as on the Lily, a flower of whiteness, the flower of purity, there being a White Peace Lily as the ritual plant of the Christian holiday of Easter during the springtime.

Pureness, whiteness, honesty, integrity, safety and truth, but most of all: LOVE...

MEETING MY MOTHER IN HEAVEN

A renewal, a fountain of youth, a fountain of chocolate, a piñata struck with the handle of a broom, a broomstick on which to fly during a full moon, which? A witch? The switch of a broom to swoosh away impurities, impurities unable to penetrate, clean in one's thoughts, one's actions, without water, a clean mind, a mind that switches from dirty to clean in a state of love.

A state of true love, a love for a child, a baby, a child born clean, a mother whose state of giving birth unclean to the jealous, a body of a Mom who created a child, the cleanest happiest truest Mother who never gives up, your Mother to live forever, she tries, day by day she tries, we as her little angels lift her up so she flies, she is already there.

In heaven we shall meet again.

LIFE IS A BULLFIGHT

To be in a search for the answer to a question, a quest for the answer of a quest-shun.

What is a quest-shun? Is it a question you are not supposed to ask, if in asking the question you get shunned, kicked in a shin to then be shunned?

If you ask a question of someone, you are admitting you do not know the answer, to be told you should already have known the answer that it was not right for you to ask and admit your ignorance to be in search for the truth. People pretending they know what it is that you want to know from them, when there is no real answer and the truth is not there.

Secrets, as secretions of spittle, not advantageous for you to understand. To feel pureness because of a lack of confusion, knowing real wisdom instead.

Never to have taken a bite of the apple. To then find out it was not an apple that Eve (really Ava) who tempted Adam to eat, it was instead a pomegranate. To read about embroidered pomegranates on robes, tunics, of Jewish Priests. Knowing that if you bite into the whiteness of a pomegranate, you are biting into extreme bitterness. To want this bitterness? To eat horseradish or a spicy pepper? Foods someone says are good but are really not.

To eat blueberries because they are blue or raspberries because they are red. To fight in baseball games as the Red Cardinals over the Blue Cubbies. To wonder why grown men in football seek to tumble their opponents to cause them injury and to chase a leather ball because it is no longer made of pigskin. A football a baby, a baby cradled in one's arms to smash on the ground when you make a touchdown.

A way to find out truths but to discern a real truth that is not a lie.

To feel God in one's body between your shoulders on your upper back. Being in a bullfight to stab a bull between his shoulders. To wave a red cape to incite the bull, to be a winner in Spain and Mexico as a male bull dies. To pray for forgiveness in this cold blooded murder, to then must do it again and again. It being called your occupation, a way to earn a living.

To happily semi-retire to feed a bull instead of killing it.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WAS A SECRET JEW

Who was the man who discovered America? Was he Chris, Kris, Kris Kringle, Christian, Christ, Christopher? Could you call a Jewish man Christopher and/or a Jewish woman Mary? Why all this secrecy, paranoia, people who are lying  about their Faith.

How could the atrocities of the Spanish Inquistion and the Holocaust still have such a sour taste in our mouths, so much so, that we openly lie to people about our Faiths. Can you lie to a convert of Judaism about your Jewish Faith? We are supposed to love the Jewish converts, not lie and deceptively abuse them.

An underground secret Jew was Columbus, he lived during the time of the Spanish Inquistion, and wanted to preserve his life so he wanted the world to think he was a Christian, had a name change, he was born to parents who were Maranos and he too was a Marano. The Marano was/is a secret Jew, who lied and said they were not Jewish to the government so they would not be killed in the Spanish Inquistion.

What exactly is a Marano? See him secretly eat some food and some not, see him hiding his Mexican hot sauce, hiding his Spanish descent? Closing the curtain, looking back and forth as if with multiple eyes, chaining his wallet to his pants, even though it is empty, in fear of being discovered, even though he is among friends who already know his identity.

Wearing a blue cap around his head like his yarmulkeh, never to remove. Dark skin? What me? Hot sauce? Who me? Mexican. Spanish. We are Maranos, the secret Spanish Jews who lived through a time period of the slaughtering of millions of Jews, convert or die. Me? Me no speaky English, we are Spanish, see? We know how to speak espanol, the language of the dark-skinned Jew, the Spanish-American Jew.

Columbus was the first Spanish-American Jew to set foot on America, since then, we have been the United States of America and he was the one who discovered it. His parents' name was Columbo not Columbus. Dreaming of a place to "come out" a place to have freedom and religious equal rights. To truly exercise your rights, we must stop hiding. Esther, truly a mentor!

"Who are you??"
"None of your business!"
"Do you speaky English?"
"Um? No comprendo".
"No comprendo, no employment."

A BOOK TO LOVE

What is the importance of a book? A real book, with cardboard or paperback front cover and back cover, a bound book, a strong book with an even stronger binding, a book that is like a sturdy piece of wood, a book that cannot be destroyed, a book of all Hebrew print that cannot be messed with, a burial only for a book as valuable as this, a cemetery for books, never to destroy or discard a book, not to write in or underline its contents, to respect a book, it is like a wedding ring, more valuable than gold, more precious than silver.

To use your favorite book like a stuffed animal to take with you to sleep, to put the book next to your pillow, a book that will seep information into your brain at the command of God, God controlling how much info and what info goes into one's brain and heart. To even kiss a book, to caress and hug it. A book that can love you back feeling the love from you and so showing you the directions on how to love and who to love.

To be in love with a book. To love a book like you love God, as you love your parents, to never lose this book, never to let it out of your grasp, to be a book that is special, a book like The Tanach, the complete printing of everything you need. Never to give it up or give it away, never to lose it, never to leave it without being in the security of your attention.

Yes, I love books. You too can try to love a book. A book can be replaced with another book, a book is luckier than a loved one who is a person, a book has more than nine lives, more lives than a pet cat.

Love the Bible, The Tanach, love God. He will help you. Call upon Him and He will be with you instantly, in a book or as an Angel, He will bring you all you desire.

FROM A FAMILY OF TEACHERS

What do you know? Have you knowledge to share? From a family of teachers? Teaching your family something who can then pass on your knowledge to others who can learn from you?

Have you read books that are not available even at libraries? Books from a 72 volume set or more? With a photographic memory, a mind that does not stop memorizing. Wishfully thinking that others can also know what you know so they can pass down your know-how to others who could benefit from your thoughts. Can you be a guide to others in their actions, to let people know what and what not to do? To have read 613 Commandments so know the negative, what not to do, and the positive, what to do.

Being blessed to have a Professor, an English Professor in your lineage, and to have teachers who teach disabled children. Having taught English as a second language to Spanish speaking teenagers at a high school. To have had employment in The Literacy Volunteers of America, a group of tutors who teach people English who cannot read. To yourself be bi-lingual and to teach your family enunciation and vocabulary, comprehension, and reading speed.

Having the knowledge of Hebrew as one of your languages you speak? How wonderful! And to be it "Biblical" Hebrew? Knowing a language that is sung as a song, knowing tropes and melodies, singing the language instead of saying it. Being able to use it as a meditation, to sing yourself into a state of healthiness. Beautiful pursed lips of words like "ahavah" which means love, or "chesed" which means lovingkindness, or "binah" which means understanding. "Chochmah"  which means wisdom, or "gevurah" which means strength and discipline, "todah rabbah" which means great thanks. To take these holy Words and turn them into meditation mantras to become great, as great as God, as we speak and sing like God, for others to look up to us, to be a good example, with the use of suggestibility.

Can we as lowly humans become as Great as God? If you show God love and fear, you will become as is God, using Him as your Mentor, you having been created in the image of God, to learn Torah to know what God did and what He can do for you and others, what we can do if we follow in His footsteps.
 

GREET PEOPLE WITH A FRIENDLY COUNTENANCE

What does this mean: "Greet everyone with a friendly countenance" and is this something we all should do? In the Pirkei Avot, the holy Jewish book "Our Ancestors" it says this is something we all need to do. Can this change your world and everyone's world you greet? A simple smile as you pass someone by, a twinkle from your eye and into theirs, getting a twinkle back, a greetings of goodness with electricity going both ways.

Do you have all your teeth? Are your teeth white? Are they clean? Does a dentist clean them and give them a fluoride treatment once every six months? If so, then you have beautiful teeth, with no reason not to smile.

Are there people you like and who you want to greet happily, are there people you do not know and can also greet happily? It takes chutzpah which in Yiddish means "nerve" to be the friendliest person in the world. Do you dare to have the nerve to be friendly?

If you are female, it would look pretty strange to overdo greeting the male sex, instead to greet women, women you know or do not know, we are from a sisterhood, a Women To Women International Sisterhood. Women altogether who fight for the rights of all Women. If we smile at men the men use this as a reason to harass us, better to know your distance.

Better to merge with the feminine in one's environment so the men cannot say you provoked them into sexual harassment or to be stalked by your smile and verbal greeting to them and being so-called provocative with what clothes you wear or do not wear.

It would indeed be a lovely world if everyone in the world has the potential of being friendly and amiable with everyone they meet.

Know your constant companion is The Lord, and in this way, no matter who you are able to greet or not to greet, The Lord is there for you and will stay with you as long as you want Him.

To greet Him first and to be sated.

THE BEST DENTIST IN THE WORLD

 

How about that! A dentist named Elizabeth! When she smiles she shows all her teeth like pearls, like precious gems, her demeanor as beautiful as her pure white teeth, she wears her nametag proudly on her chest, it says "Elizabeth". The Z sound is loud and clear, fighting as a name that fights tooth decay, her armor is all around her as a white colored smock, covered like a tallit, a prayer shawl of a woman who has had her Bat Mitzvah, she speaks the truth, she liked my teeth, to her they were teeth of a shark that became a porpoise, a porpoise being the most intelligent fish of all fish. Fish sticks for lunch, Kosher, not catfish, breaded, chewed with newly brushed dentist-cleaned teeth. In the Czech language teeth are said as "zuby". A Z on ones toothbrush that scrubs back and forth, up and down, mostly from up to down so not to stretch the gums pushing them away from the teeth.

How is it that I know this? A miracle being that I still have my wisdom teeth. My Mother and Father wanted me to keep my wisdom teeth, so no dentist has ever tried to deprive me of knowledge. My wisdom teeth I scrub first, they are the cleanest teeth in my mouth. All the way back, hard to reach, but I reach them anyway. The gums around these wisdom teeth were cut back by a dental surgeon when I was 12 years old. No food particles to get stuck in between my gums and my wisdom teeth because there are no gums.

Teeth cleaned by Elizabeth regularly, a mouth that is cleaned at least twice a day, brushed, Colgate, Crest, Aim, peppermint spearmint toothpastes, and picks of sharp plastic to use instead of stringy floss, no left food particles in between the teeth, not Eskimo having chewed whale blubber to grind them down.

Everyone should have a dentist as kind as Elizabeth, a chance to keep all your teeth, to not have fangs as incisors and a toothless grin. To have white not yellow or worse yet, green moldy teeth. To smile at anyone and to be sure of yourself as you are sure of the beauty of your white cleaned toothy smile.

JEWISH PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

"Refuah Shlemah?" in Hebrew means "How are you?" We ask of these tidings of our Temple member friends, especially around this time of the Jewish calendar year being so close to the High Holidays, the Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre, Yom Kippur, etc. "Will we see you at Shul?" Prayers go out to those who are too sick to attend Shul on the Holy Days.

Prayers being sung in and out of the Temple, emails of good will going out, the sick being remembered, the ill starting to heal, songs sung for their healing, petitions to God, personal petitions chanted for God to heal these sick friends. Prayers on all days of the week, not just on Holy Days, all days, Shabbats included. The Mi-She Barack Hebrew Blessings sung for good health for the sick.

To go out of your way, to cook up a pot of Kosher Chicken Noodle Soup or Matzo Ball Soup, to chop the veggies very minute, to use all Kosher utensils, pots and plates. To bless the food using Hebrew eating blessings before one eats. After eating, to sing a blessing to thank God for the sustenance, and for your friend who cooked the food for you.

Time to heal, healing on the Holy Days, living, taking the time to appreciate life, to choose life over death, to keep in touch with your doctor, to heal and to spread healing tidings everywhere, to come together, both the sick and the well, as one, all under ONE God.

THE CALMNESS OF SOUNDS OF SILENCE

Not to hear a sound, not to even hear a cricket as a nighttime fiddler on the roof, no sounds from thunderstorms, silently asleep all night, kids next door not playing bouncing basketball late into the night, neighborhood watched, neighborhood respectability, dogs penned, little or no barking, a treat for a dog to encourage his silence, beware although to know why he barks when. A stranger in the night, not strange to your watchful dog. Unwelcomed strangers running away, "Beware of Dog" sign on your backyard gate door. Silence everywhere except the barking of your police-trained German Shepherd. Reason for the barking checked, then asleep again.

In a meadow, just birdies singing, grasshoppers jumping, bumble bees pollenating flowers, trees swaying with leaves blowing in an up and down nod as if bowing to God Himself, all in unison like a marching band, music whistling in the wind, changing a wild wind into a soft breeze, music that we can hear with our imagination, an opera, a symphony, sweet calling voices from a bubbling brook, deer, venison, coyotes, sipping clean clear brook water, bouncing gaily in gaiety on forest preserve pathways.

Silence when you hear it, not to listen to noise, to pay attention when there is no noise, for God to bring these wonderful sounds of silence to you, to fill your ears, your ears like cornucopias overflowing with soothing-ness, but quietly, without even a sound.

To befriend the quiet grasshopper, to pick a meadow flower. To be in tune with the music when there is none. The beauty of only you, your grasshopper, a flower and me.