Fear? Scary stuff. The Walking Dead, the Talking Dead, Halloween costumes, Purim costumes, funerals, wakes, face painting, where is my kid!! He was just walking over there! Missing one's parents, a child without a parent, shoes that cause blisters, sore feet, dry eyes, sunlight too bright. Fear of all these catastrophic occurrences!!
Wondering what lurks under the bed? Is there something in your clothes closet that may be there, something not visible, a spirit exposed by car headlights as they beam into your bedroom though the windows, a light and then not a light, a light that appears and then disappears. Skeletons in your closet? A secure lock but that could be cut. A clothes closet filled with valuables, at least they are valuable to you. To fear theft, to wonder if your valuables are safe, to pray to Gd to keep your property safe, to call upon your Guardian Angel who is like a Pit Bull dog when it comes to protecting you and your goods. A Jolly Green Giant. A Goliath, but a Goliath on your side and not on the side of your enemies. Needing a slingshot as did King David, not when you diplomatically make Goliath your friend, a friend in need is a friend indeed!
A room without windows, or a room with a window but with an awning, not to be able to see the beautiful blue sky. Claustrophobia. Just one door, no sky, no neighbor's yard visible from your room, no sunshine, not to know if it is daytime or night. A bed. And a desk. A microwave oven. Wondering if the stars are out if it is night. To love light and to love sight. Not to see and not to hear. Hearing only a dog's bark.
To knock out a wall and to build your own window. To see your next door neighbor's filth and so to knock out the window and build a wall. Brick by brick. Yellow bricks or red bricks, a wooden house without bricks, insulated with metal siding, warmer in the winter than a brick abode.
A wall. What is a Wall? It is a word that pronounces Wall-come or welcome. After she says "thank you", you say "Your Wall-come." [welcome]. To be welcome at the Wailing Wall, to pray in Israel and to pray wherever you are and will be, to envision a Wailing Wall in the walls of your own house.
To speak aloud and to pray aloud. To yet pray in a whisper if it disturbs someone nearby, but must to hear yourself pray!
To press your three fingers of your right hand upon your forehead, and to sing "Shema Y'israel, Adonai Eloheynu, Adonai Echad"!!
Who is SHE? She is SHEkinah, another Name, but of the female gender, a Name "Shekinah" meaning Gd.
Gd loves you She loves you. To fear only Gd and no other, none other, nothing other.
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