Gail Weinstein

The prophecy of Gail Ellen Weinstein as revealed at YESOD…..

1) You will die one day. The rest is ancillary commentary.

• Cultivate joy. Practice noticing things that move you, things that please you. This is IT. Okay, kvetch a little. But then get over it and get on with loving life. Every little thing.
• Practice gratitude. As you walk by, talk to gardeners, janitors, garbage men, and other workers. Thank them for making your neighborhood or workplace beautiful. You can just say, “It’s beautiful. Thank you for your work”.
• Notice light- on water, on trees, through clouds, on skin, at dawn, at dusk, at mid-day. Experience wonder. Love brightness and darkness and every mysterious mix of light, including the awe of its absence in the thickest part of night.
• Acknowledge pain and fear, and then get off your tush and do stuff anyway.
• Err on the side of generosity. Give stuff away. Make time.
• Eat broccoli, yes, but do not forsake entirely cookies or chocolate.
• Make amends to people rather than to G_d. In the end, it’s the same thing, and a more direct route.
• Celebrate connection, accept occasional loneliness.
• Imagine that you may not have enough time. Do what matters most. Hurry!
• Make outrageous leaps of faith; work toward the impossible. Like, seek peace among Jews and Palestinians or any other people you love or have trouble loving.
• Do not be afraid to lose face. Show up even when you haven’t done your YESOD homework.
• Rise to each day, keep going; make many jokes, even stupid ones sometimes.
• Consider how others have imagined G_d, learn about your place as a Jew in the march of generations. Then imagine G_d as revealed specifically to you.
• Get quiet and listen for instructions. This, in my view, is prayer.
• Disregard my prophesy. Listen for instructions (that is, pray). Make your own prophecy. Then live by it. Time is short. Let’s go! And please pass the chocolate.