Daydreaming, in the synagogue, on Shabbat,
he appeared: His face and body chiseled by
the hand of Michelangelo's "David."
On his tongue, danced yiddish melodies and
meditations of Osho, the mystic; in his hands,
a tennis racket served up aces;
and in his eyes, an angel was present,
singing Hebrew prayers into his ears as
she beckoned and beseeched him to love.
Daydreaming, he flew north,
away from the cold winter in
Uruguay, to warm his frozen heart
by the fireplace at her bed
as the music of Vivaldi
played on his mind and
passionate patter recited in Spanish
poured out from his machismo.
Caressing the sinewy
wingtips of the angel,
his spirit was longing for shelter
beneath her ample wingspan.
Daydreaming, he had passed through
22 incarnations, and was searching...
for room, board, and shelter, wanting
to be reincarnated as a foreign
college student in New York.
Piled high, tests, applications and deadlines
consumed his every wakeful moment.
Daydreaming, and spent, like Jacob
he began to wrestle with the angel,
over a bowl of cold gazpacho soup,
challenging her to confront the issues:
• Does a God exist?
• Explain the nature of evil?
• Is there an afterlife?
• Did the red sea part?
• Did Moses receive the Ten Commandments?
• Are Jews the chosen people?
Daydreaming, the angel, chomping on spinach
salad, like popeye, answered -in between each bite - each
and every paramount question posed that plagued her muse:
• There is a power greater than
you that exists in the world.
• Human beings are the dumbest animals
on the planet. The rest of creation does not
go to school or read books; nor do they
need therapy, mental institutions or prisons.
GOD gave the animals twice as much and to live,
they don't have to work half as hard to survive.
Underneath the fur, my cat looks exactly like you.
Schmaltzy, my purr-fect child, is capable of giving
unconditional love 24 hrs. a day, seven days a week.
A teeny-weeny ant lives in a close complex civilization
and is smarter than an average human being;
An arctic polar bear can swim a thousand
miles without a swimming lesson.
Even if human beings overcome their ignorance;
they will never overcome their stupidity,
people go into education; but
the education does not go into them;
people go into religion, but
the religion does not go into them;
people go into love, but
the love does not go into them.
The essence of EVIL is INSANITY.
The world is not divided into white vs. black,
Jew vs. Arab, Muslim vs. Christian; it is really
divided along the lines of the SANE vs. the INSANE:
95% of all people do not have to look outside
their own family to find HATRED. Few people
have much LOVE inside of them.
• I step on the ants when I walk and
after I die, the ants will crawl on top of me.
• The physical Red Sea is a metaphor
of a greater spiritual reality: a crossing over.
• Moses received the Ten Commandments,
similar to Mozart who received a divine gift of
music to be shared with the world.
• Jews chose to follow the commandments of
GOD as revealed in the Torah.
Daydreaming, on one of his many sojourns,
in flight, north, south, east and west of
Fifth Ave., and in fright, with ten nail bitten
fingertips, contacting and contacted,
CDs of Best-loved Tchaikovsky fell
into his hands and he gifted the entire
collection to his best-loved angel.
Daydreaming, seven days and seven nights
passed, and the eternal Sabbath returned
to the synagogue, the muse Rodolfo,
now immortal -
transformed by a mere transcription
of a poet's pen - returned to Uruguay
wearing brand new tennis sneakers,
and the angel was left pondering the
immortal meditations of Osho, the
mystic, as the immortal music of Vivaldi
and Tchaikovsky played on and on...
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