"Life is here and now, forever new. To be alive, this moment now must touch the essence of your soul. To be alive is to be forever newly born.
And so our sages said, “The Torah must be new to you every day.”
Because if it is not new, then it is not giving you life. And if it is not giving you life, then what is?"
[Chabad.org]
The newness of a budding leaf on a tree, a Gingko Tree with fan-shaped leaves that fan me with a cool sea breeze as I lay in sand on a lake shoreline.
To be alive and to feel this awesome rest but excitement as my hair blows around my head and forms a holy halo that lightens up glowingly reflecting the love of G-d above my head.
To be alive and to feel G-d, to feel HASHEM at every moment, in a sea breeze on a lake or inside a sheltered building with walls of yellow brick around me, yellow brick like the brick of the Kotel, The Wailing Wall, The Western Wall, protected each day by HASHEM Who gives strength and formidableness to these Great Yellow Brick Walls, impenetrable, immobile, firm and never giving up, never giving in.
Keeping always in The Jewish Faith and having the Home of these Yellow Brick Walls, firmer and stronger than the red brick walls, not a home to The Three Little Pigs.
Pork is nowhere to be found, never entering the Pearly Gates of these Walls. Not to be found in Heaven, a pork-free Heaven that is found here on Earth.
Touched by an Angel as I turned down a pork-filled piece of pizza, an Angel with such incredible holiness guiding my actions away from falling over a white picket fence into a pig pen where I would be stomped upon by a pig with cloven hooves but who does not chew his cud.
Touched by an Angel and warned as with the shrilling sound of The Shofar, to be freed from all that is deplorable and despicable, to have a clean plate with clean food with clean utensils.
To then touch others in return, to show them the love of this Angel whose message is for us to feel the love and fear of G-d in all places, to be thankful for these religious experiences and to share them with others.
Hoping to ignite a Divine spark where there was none, no passion, no fire, to keep trying to save the world.
Never to give up.
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