Revealed Good

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Your Daily Dose of Jewish Wisdom:

It’s not that there are two forms of matter, the physical and the spiritual. Rather, to each thing there are two faces, the more tangible and the more abstract.

Our senses grasp that which is tangible, and we call it “physical.”

Our mind’s eye is able to grasp the more abstract—each according to his level—and we call that “spiritual.”

This is such an amazing month for me for so many reasons.  First of all in the Jewish Lunar Calendar, it is the month of Adar, where we strive to be happy every day.  One of the reasons we are happy is because of the holiday of Purim, it is all about enjoying life, celebrating our history, dressing up in costumes, and non stop parties.  I love that in our multicultural world there is always a New Year, so I want to wish a Happy Chinese New Year to all of you who celebrate, I know there are so many fun events all over the world.  All of the astrological signs start mid month, so they are lunar as well, so the Jewish month of Adar is mid February through mid March.

For me personally the month of March is a month of birthdays, first my daughter and then my baby. I love planning all the fun that we are going to have all month, we don't do one birthday celebration, there are many, from the Solar birthday to the Lunar birthday, and everything in between.

Lately many interesting and wonderful things have been happening, and in this month of happiness, which is my favorite state of being, I feel fully present to all the magic around me.  In Judaism we are always wishing each other revealed good and revealed miracles, meaning that it is something that we will clearly see, appreciate, and fully be aware that miracles happen all around us. 

Here is a list of these opportunities to be of service and manifestations:

1.  I was in a rush to pick up my son from school, I had no time, as I am running out of work a friend of mine asked me to take some food to another mother that was completely on the other side of the building.  She had her kids in the car, I knew it was food for a mother that just had a baby, I figured why be late, and this would really make her take a breath and smile for the rest of the day.

2. I got a flyer for Disney on Ice, and it was perfect, a good mix of boy stuff and girl stuff, I am trying to figure out what to do for my daughter for her birthday, and then a friend of mine puts me in a group where they are giving away free tickets to that exact show and I won!

3. I was running late to teach my Yoga class at the Hollywood 24 Hour Fitness, and one of my regulars stops me and asks me to help her with her membership, she only spoke Russian and I figured I will be a little later to class, but I will help this older woman take a deep breath and translate for her so she could freeze her membership until she feels better.

4. Today I was driving my car and noticed that the lights dimmed when I went under a dark bridge, adjusting to the light, and got brighter once I was back in daylight, completely more comfortable for the eye.  Feeling so grateful for modern technology, operates automatically, thinks for us, I love my backup camera and navigation.

5. So our dress up holiday is around the corner, it is as big as Halloween, in the Jewish world there are so many parties, kids parties, adults parties, and everyone dresses up.  My daughter is obsessed with Elsa from Frozen, but luckily she is not stuck on the branded stuff.  I let them watch You Tube, and there are different versions of Elsa, there is one in a red dress singing "let it burn," and my daughter tells me there is a purple, and some other colors.  So I noticed a red velvet dress hanging in back of her closet, it is a little big but perfect for the costume, so I showed it to her and she is so excited to be "Red Elsa," and all I have to do is create a cape.  I am proud of me.  I love being creative with my kids, I just helped my son in Kindergarten build a police station out of a rubber gloves box, a paper towel roll, and a broken plastic box that we used for wipes, no need for it since my baby got out of diapers. It turned out so awesome, they are creating a city in school, and everyone was assigned a building.  He had the idea that it could have police boats, so we built a police dock, and put boats in.  The paper towel roll is a light house with a top of a mouthwash bottle as the light.

Take Notice,

It is happening all the time,

Be careful what you wish for,

Be conscious of what you wish for,

You can have it all,

Shabbat Shalom, 

Coach Yulia