THE-PLACE-OF-WARMTH-IN-A-WINTER-STORM

Going to THE-PLACE-OF-WARMTH-IN-A-WINTER-STORM. To see her smile, to remember her kindness, to chew on a piece of warm Challah bread with honey, to light a candle and put your cold fingers near the flame, to laugh and to chuckle even if at nothing, to keep laughing to laugh after eating a meal, to wear warm clothing like red crimson wool, using warm blankets at night.

To cook up a pot of hot chocolate, to sip it and warm your lips as well as the insides of your body.

To wear boots in the snow to stay dry and to warm the ankles and toes.

To think about your heart and emitting warmth with compassionate emotions. To help someone, to be of assistance to someone who is cold and miserable, to turn on a warm electric heater, not to go outside, to not be in the snow.

To think warm thoughts, thoughts of being close to someone: in his or her arms and letting the body heat of your partner flow into yours, to snuggle up with someone, to hold someone's hand, to cover oneself with a long shawl, to pray in a woolen tallit, to wear a woolen tallit katan.

To keep one's coat on indoors, to tie a scarf around one's face, to wear a knit cap.

To find someone to talk to and to talk about your summer fun times at the hot beaches. To remember swimming in cool water as the sun was beaming down on you, when you needed sunglasses to reflect hot sunrays.

To be cooking in a kitchen with all the broilers turned on and a hot oven turned on and hot soup cooking, boiling, and overflowing from its pot, to have warm food all around you, to keep it all steamy warm with the use of tight lids.

To have a hot water bottle, to press it against your bare skin, to apply warm pads to your body, to stand in front of the hearth of a fireplace, to kindle wood to burn, to stay away from the smoke.

To wear warm socks that cover your ankles that are thick and fuzzy, warm argyle socks or slippers, to snuggle your feet in where it is warm, not to have cold feet, to be brave in a winter snowstorm.

To cook up yourself a cup of steaming hot tea. To dangle the teabag by its string cooking the tea to be stronger and stronger, sniffing up the vapors from the hot tea water, warming your hand on the tea cup, drinking it and transferring the warmth to the insides of your stomach, all your organs. To warm your throat as it is going down.

To think warm thoughts of love. Love for your loved ones, love for your neighbors, love that is warm and steamy and snuggly, love that is warmer than a hot fire, a fiery hot passion never to be extinguished.

A love for G-d that He returns and loves you back. To make this love burn as it ought with fiery flames, with a desire and a longing and a passion manifestly felt in the heart, to cleave to G‑d.