MY FAVORITE TEACHER

Traveling today to a place of a pizza party, to play a word game at the party, to be asked "Who was your favorite teacher?"

To have in one's life, teachers and then more teachers galore! But to narrow it down, who of this multitude was the best-est, which teacher taught me the most of everything, all I needed to know, to be a survivor of a life, not a victim. Which teacher taught me this, how can I narrow this down to celebrating just one of this multitude of teachers.

We see in The Torah and Proverbs and Psalms that our best teacher has been our Mother. These teachings from our Mothers are the teachings to obey as they come straight from the Torah. If our Mothers teach us away from The Torah, we are not to obey. But nicely, forgivingly, gently, to steer to Torah instead of these false teachings. Not to condemn one's parents, but to go your own way as they go theirs.

To have a teacher from nature? Is this something that is possible? How indeed can we learn from the birds and the bees. To have seen with one's own eyes a teaching from a Seagull streamlining in the sky circling around again and again, at least twenty circles, with the greatest of determination and perseverance one can imagine, over a body of water that contained live small fish, to learn from that Seagull how to be patient, how to zero in on a prey and dive like Wonder Woman or Superman with the beak first into the water to catch one's supper! Flying out of the water to a place like an island to chew it and digest it, fighting for his food, sharing it only with his spouse and children. Mother Nature Who is Shekinah, the Hebrew Goddess, or Yah, can teach us more than what we can read even in the most complete set of books.

Our boats resting on a pier, our fish awaiting in our nets, our appetites sated, satiated, in a place of good foods galore, Kosher food. 

To study Torah we need  this sustenance, greens and proteins, Vegan and Kosher, meats, dairies, an abundance of fresh drinking waters, a full tummy. 

A Rosh Hashanah New Year of a cornucopia of a Shofar, a Thanksgiving, a time to be happy.