Jewish Musings Fri./Shbt, 9/20,21, days 349&350 since 10/7

[hollygail]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.

Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:

Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy

And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!

[hollygail]

Shechinah
Chana Bell 1977 Los Angeles

Chana Bell introduces the image of the Shechinah, the feminine aspect of God, in her poem of welcome to the Sabbath…

Perched on our shoulders
a colorful butterfly
you whisper into pores
shabbat’s sweetness

we breathe you in
breathe the week out
take in roundness
letting go of sharp angles

we breathe in the neshamam yiteira
the soul of the world to come
in awe
we sway not march

As we kindle shabbat candles
you glide into our dark corners
warming us
dissolving our dense bodies
into light

Gut Shabbes / Shabbat Shalom, all.

[lee058]

Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.

I am having a difficult time trying to get Zepbound at a price my family can afford. I've been on the phone and the computer most of the morning, and am feeling upset and shaky. DS is trying to help, and we are going to spend some time together in a little while having lunch and probably playing a game.

Have a peaceful rest of the day, Lee

[gazelle18]

Thanks for this lovely poem, Holly. Good shabbos, all