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What Are You Dreaming About Today?

I love the rain.
The whisper of rain is so comforting,
and soothing, so conducive to dreaming
and imagining what could be…

I’m listening to the quiet hum of almond meal,
aduki bean crackers,
and sprouted sunflower seeds
slowly spinning and drying in my dehydrator,
in my urban country kitchen…

Sipping warm Pink Garden Soup (recipe below),
puttering, sorting, sipping, dreaming…
What do you like to do on rainy days?
what are you dreaming about today?

 

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The Most Frequently Asked Question
By far, the most frequently asked question that
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The Jewish people do not write G-d’s name in a place
where it may be discarded or erased.
Treating G-d’s name with reverence is a way
to give respect to G-d.

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“Soul Tips,” without realizing that all of the
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Inspirational Quotes

From Mrs. Yehudit Eichenblatt

Every descent is for the purpose of ascent
to create a wholeness and commitment in the world
to bring it to a higher level through our work.

We make the lower world into a higher world.
We do this by taking physical things and making them holy.

The world we live in is in a very dark state.
G-dliness is concealed in our world.
Every little prayer, every Mitzvah,
every tiny act of kindness that we do in this dark world
lights up the whole world and makes a great impact.
When Moshiach comes, G-dliness will be revealed in the world.
The world will be lit up with G-dliness
and the Mitzvahs will not have the power of light then that they have now.

Light up the world while you still can -
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This Month’s Soul Tip

We are in the Hebrew month of Cheshvan.
This month is sometimes called Mar (bitter) Cheshvan
because we are bitter by the lack of holidays in this month.
After the intensity of all of the holidays of Tishrei:
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, Simchas Torah,
one might think that because Cheshvan has no holidays
it is somehow less important.

After the long days of prayer, fasting, feasting,
and all night dancing and farbrengens
(uplifting gatherings of Torah thoughts, stories and song),
Cheshvan feels… well, sort of flat.

While Tishrei is the time for charging our spiritual batteries,
Cheshvan is the time to integrate that intense spiritual energy
into our daily lives and the physical world in order to fulfill our G-dly purpose.

So what is our G-dly purpose?
While we each have unique talents and missions,
collectively we all have a mandate to transform
and elevate the mundane things of this world into the spiritual.
In this way we make every day a holy day.

The spiritual energy of this month
is to take the inspiration of the month of Tishrei,
and use our fortified spiritual powers
to make every day holy by serving G-d with our plain days
and our littleness, with our weakness and our darkness.

 

Here’s your
Soul Adventure for today:

Take out your colored pens and a sheet of paper.
Draw a medium sized circle in the center.
Inside the circle write down or paste a picture of
something that has recently inspired you.

Now draw several lines radiating out from the circle,
like making a simple sun.

On each line, write or doodle something you can do
to spread that inspiration into your everyday life.
Do one of these things every day for the rest of
the month.

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Pink Garden Soup Recipe
Kosher & Vegan

This is a wonderfully healthy, pretty,
and delicious blended soup.
Basically you can use any vegetables you like.
I used:
3 small beets
2 medium yams
1/2 pound of green beans
1 medium onion
4 zuchinni
4 big carrots
1 parsnip
8 stalks of celery
Add enough water to cover the vegetables plus extra.
Bring to a boil and simmer for an hour.
Cool till warm, not hot, and blend.
Add salt, garlic, tamari or Braggs
and Zatar or Oregano to your taste.

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YOUR CALL TO ACTION:

May you be blessed with the happiness
of your deepest, truest dreams fulfilled.

Have a happy, healthy, & holy Shabbos!
Rae Shagalov
Master Calligrapher, Creative Planner & Dream Sparker
Holy Sparks Transformational Art, Soul Kits, & Coaching

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