בס''ד. By Dr Shalom!

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1 WITH GOD''S GREAT HELP בס''ד SHEEP IN THE MEADOW By Dr Shalom!

2 OH IT IS A VERY INTERESTING STORY LET ME TELL YOU IT FROM THE BEGINNING 0NCE UPON A TIME IN A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD THE SHEEP SPECIES WAS BORN. THE SHEEP WERE FLUFFY SOFT CREATURES, WITH A GOOD HEART AND A SMILING FACE. THEY WERE LOVING AND PEACEFUL AND THEY DID GOOD DEEDS ALL DAY TO EACHOTHER AND TO OTHER CREATURES. THIS WAS THE MISSION OF THE SHEEP, WHO WENT TO ALL PLACES WITHOUT CAUSING TROUBLE, ALWAYS TRYING TO HELP. THE SHEEP DWELLED ON THEIR OWN, YET SURROUNDED BY OTHER CREATURES. DAY TO DAY THE SHEEP WENT ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. OOOHHH THEY HAD VERY SPECIAL BUSINESS TO GO ABOUT. THEIR BUSINESS WAS NO ORDINARY BUSINESS. THEIR LIVES WERE FULL OF FUN DOINGS. RELAXING, PLAYING IN THE FIELD, EATING, SLEEPING AND DOING MANY SPECIAL DEEDS AMONGST THEMSELVES. SOME OF THESE ACTIONS AND DEEDS MAY HAVE SEEMED STRANGE TO OTHER CREATURES, YET THE SHEEP HAD A TRADITION FROM A LONG TIME AGO, TO DO ALL THESE

3 SEPCIAL DEEDS, WHICH WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT SOON WITH GOD'S HELP. THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY THAT THESE SHEEP DEED WAS TO SING. YES- TO SING! THEIR VERY IMPORTANT JOB WAS TO SING TO THE CREATOR- THE GOD OF THE WORLD, WHO CREATED THE WHOLE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT SO ALL DAY THE SANG PRAISES TO THE GOD "HAVA NAGILLA HAVA NAGILLA HAVA NAGILLA VENISMECHA " THEY SANG, EACH ONE FROM THEIR HEART, PRAISES AND PRAISES, ALL DAY LONG "THANK YOU, OH GOD FOR CREATING THE WORLD, THANK YOU FOR CREATING THE OCEANS AND SEAS AND ALL THE WATERS OF THE WORLD, THE LAND, THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS, THE FORESTS AND TREES THE PLANTS AND FLOWERS, THE GRASSES AND ALL THE CREATURES ALIVE, THANK YOU FOR CREATING THE ANIMALS, THE BIRDS AND THE FISH, THANK YOU FOR THE WIND FIRE AND FOR ALL THAT YOU MADE, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HUMANS ALIVE, THANK YOU FOR CREATING ME AND MY FAMILY, ALL MY FRIENDS AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME FOOD AND WATER, SHELTER AND WARMTH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU WHO IS LIKE YOU AMONG THE

4 HEAVENLY POWERS, HASHEM, WHO IS LIKE YOU MIGHTY IN HOLINESS TOO AWESOME TO PRAISE DOER OF WONDERS " THIS WAY THE SHEEP WENT AROUND DOING THEIR DAILY DEEDS WHILE SINGING TO THE CREATOR " HAVA NAGILLA HAVA NAGILLA HAVA NAGILLA VENISMECHA " IN THIS WAY, BY SINGING PRAISES TO GOD ALL DAY, THE SHEEP MAINTAIN PEACE IN THEIR SOULS, IN THEIR HOMES AND IN THE WHOLE WORLD! JUST BY SINGING!!! THROUGHOUT TIME, THE SHEEP, WITH THE SINGING AND PEACEFULNESS HAVE TURNED THE WHOLE WORLD FROM BAD AND EVIL FROM CHAOS- TO A PLACE OF PEACE AND SERENITY, ORDER AND LOVE, AS GOD THE CREATOR WANTED IT TO BE. THIS THEY DID BY BEING GOOD- AND OF COURSE- BY SINGING PRAISES! HOW DID THEY KNOW ABOUT THIS CREATOR? HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT THE CREATOR CREATED THE WORLD? HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT THEY SHOULD GIVE THANKS AND SING TO THE CREATOR? AND HOW DID THEY GET THIS SPECIAL MISSION TO SING TO GOD? AHHH ALL THIS WILL BE TOLD SOON, WITH GOD'S HELP. ACTUALLY, PERHAPS NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO GO

5 BACK IN TIME BACK IN TIME TO THE GREAT ANCIENT GRANDADDY OF THE SHEEP SHEEPABRAHAM. HE WAS A GREAT SHEEP, A LEADER SHEEP WHO SEEKER TRUTH AND PERSUED KINDNESS FROM EARLY AGE. HE PRAYED AND PRAISED THE CREATOR AND HE LIVED HONESTLY AND JUSTLY ALL HIS LIFE, LOOKING AFTER HIS FLOCK AND SPREADING THE WORD OF THE GOODNESS OF THE CREATOR, THE NEED TO GIVE THANKS TO HIM AND WALK IN HIS WAYS. SO THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR TALKED WITH THE RIGHTEOUS GREAT GRANDFATHER OF THE SHEEP SHEEPABRAHAM, AND PROMISED HIM THAT HE WILL HAVE MANY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN FOREVER AND EVER AND THAT ALL HIS CHILDREN FOREVER WILL WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE CREATOR AND BE CREATURES OF KINDNESS AND TRUTH, AND WILL HAVE THE VERY SPECIAL MISSION OF SPREADING THE TRUTH AND THE HONEST WAYS, TELLING ALL THE CREATURES OF THE NEED TO THANK THE CREATOR FOR ALL WE HAVE ALL THIS WAS PROMISED TO SHEEPABRAHAM BY THE CREATOR HIMSELF. THEN HE HAD A SON, SHEEPYITZCHAK WHO WAS ALSO RIGHTEOUS AND KIND, AND WALKED IN THE CREATOR'S WAYS. HE WAS ALSO PROMISED TO CONTINUE THE SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN THE SHEEP AND THE CREATOR AND SO DID HIS SON SHEEPYAAKOV, ALSO WALKED IN THESE WAYS OF THE

6 CREATOR, AND WAS ALSO TALKED TO AND TOLD THAT INDEED HE SHALL BE THE CHOSEN CREATURE TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF THE CREATOR AND THE LAWS AND THE NEED TO PRAISE THE CREATOR. AND SO THE CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN'S CHILDREN OF GRANDFATHERSHEEPYAAKOV FOREVER HAD THIS MISSION, AND INDEED, AS WE TALKED, SO DID THE SHEEP, GENERATION AFTER GENERATION, PEACEFULLY PRAISING AND SINGING TO THE CREATOR AND DOING THEIR GOOD DEEDS THAT WERE ORDERED BY THE CREATOR. AS PROMISED BY THE CREATOR, FROM THE GREAT YAAKOVSHEEP CAME A LARGE NATION. WHEN THE SHEEP WERE DOING THEIR SPECIAL MISSION AND WERE PEACEFUL AND LOVING TO EACHOTHER THE WHOLE WORLD WAS PEACEFUL. BECAUSE, YOU SEE, AT THAT TIME A LONG TIME AGO, THE WORLD WAS DOING MANY BAD THINGS, AND BY THE SHEEPNATION DOING GOOD THINGS, THIS BALANCE THE WORLD'S DEEDS, THE GOOD VERSES THE BAD AND WHEN THEY WERE WEIGHED ON A SCALE AND WHEN ALL THE GOOD DEEDS WERE MORE THAN ALL THE BAD DEEDS OF THE REST OF THE WORLD'S CREATURES, THERE WAS PEACE AND THE LAND WAS WORTHY TO BE KEPT ALIVE. SO WE SEE THIS IS A GREAT SPECIAL MISSION OF THE SHEEP KINGDOM!

7 WHEN DID THE SHEEP LEARN ABOUT ALL THESE SPECIAL DEEDS? HOW DID THEY KNOW THEIR SPECIAL MISSION? WE SAID THAT THE GRANDFATHER SHEEP SPOKE TO THE CREATOR. GOD, THE CREATOR THAT MADE THE WHOLE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT! ME. YOU. THE LAND AND SEAS, THE SKY AND EVERYTHING IN IT. THE SUN AND MOOD, THE STARS AND CLOUDS. ALL THE ANIMALS, TREES AND FLOWERS THIS CREATOR THAT KEEPS EVERYTHING ALIVE AND GIVES US EVERYTHING WE NEED. SO IN THOSE DAYS A LONG TIME AGO, THE GRANDFATHER SHEEP SPOKE TO THE CREATOR AND THE CREATOR SPOKE TO THEM. THEN, SOME GENERATIONS LATER, WHEN THERE WAS ALREADY A GREAT SHEEP NATION, THE WHOLE NATION WAS TAKEN INTO SLAVERY BY AN EVIL NATION AND THEIR KING. THIS MEAN AND EVIL NATION ZEALOUSLY TRIED TO DESTROY AND INJURE MANY SHEEP, AND SO WERE BEHAVING VERY CRUELY TOWARDS THEM. THEN AFTER MANY YEARS OF SLAVERY IN TO THIS EVIL NATION AND MUCH SUFFERING, THE CREATOR SAVED THE SHEEP, A SALVATION THAT THE SHEEP WILL NEVER FORGET AND ALWAYS BE THANKFUL FOR! THE CREATOR CHOSE ONE GREAT LEADER, MASTER PROPHET SHEEP AND TALKED TO HIM, ORDERING HIM TO GO IN THE CREATOR'S HOLY

8 NAME AND BOLDLY SAVE THE SHEEP NATION FROM THIS UTERLY EVIL KING. INDEED THE NATION OF SHEEP WITH THEIR BRAVE YET HUMBLE LEADER WERE SAVED FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE AND WERE TAKEN THROUGH THE DESERT TO THE LAND PROMISED TO THE FIRST SHEEP FATHER WHO SOUGHT THE CREATOR, AS WE HAVE TOLD. ON THE WAY, THE CREATOR GAVE THE SHEEP NATION A GREAT GIFT, THE GREATEST GIFT ON EARTH- THE BOOK OF LIFE! THIS BOOK OF DETAILED LAWS AND SECRETS OF HOW THE UNIVERSE OPERATES AND WHAT MANY TASKS EACH SHEEP MUST DO EACH DAY, AND ON SPECIAL DAYS IN THE YEAR, TO KEEP THE WORLD ALIVE! THESE TASKS THAT THE SHEEP PERFORMED, AND THE LEARNING OF THE BOOK OF LAWS AND SECRETS, ARE ACTUALLY THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS CREATED SO THAT THIS BOOK WILL BE PERFORMED, AND DUE TO THE GREAT MERIT OF THE RIGHTEOUS FOREFATHERS OF THE NATION, THIS NATION NOW HAD THE PRIVILAGE OF RECEIVING THIS BOOK AND BEING THE CHOSEN NATION TO REPRESENT THE CREATOR ON THE EARTH, AND TO TEACH THE WHOLE WORLD ABOUT THE OPERATION AND MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE. SO THE SHEEP INDEED LEARNT AND KEPT THE MANY LAWS OF THIS AWESOME SPECIAL INSTRUCTION

9 MANUAL OF LIFE. FOR THE MAIN LAW IN THIS BOOK OF LIFE, AND THE LAW AROUND WHICH ALL OTHER LAWS REVOLVED, WAS: LOVE YOUR FELLOW AS YOURSELF. SO LONG TIME THEY WERE BLESSED WITH GREAT PROSPERITY AND PEACE. THEY HAD GREAT KINGS AND A HOLY TEMPLE WHERE THE HOLY CREATOR HIMSELF CAME TO BE WITH THE SHEEP NATION. IT WAS A TIME OF GREAT JOY, AND LIFE, FOR THE BOOK BY WHICH THEY LIVED, AS THE GREAT KING SHEEP DECLARED, IS 'THE TREE OF LIFE,' AND AS THE CREATOR SAID WITHIN THE BOOK: " KEEP THE LAWS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU, SO THAT YOU SHALL HAVE GOOD AND YOU SHALL HAVE LONG LIVES, YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN:" HOWEVER AS TIME WENT ON, THE SHEEP NATION STRAYED AND BEGAN SLOWLY SLOWLY TO LIVE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT THE BOOK OF LIFE. EACH WENT THEIR OWN WAY, AND FORGOT ABOUT THEIR CREATOR, THAT SAVED THEM FROM THAT EVIL NATION, THAT IF THEY HAD NOT BEEN SAVED FROM, THEY WOULD STILL BE IN SLAVERY THERE UP TO THIS DAY! OY OY OY! THE SHEEP BEGAN TO FIGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES, FAMILY FAMILY, TRIBE TRIBE, THEY TALKED BADLY ONE ABOUT THE OTHER AND THEIR UNITY WAS SADLY LOST.

10 THE LOVE BETWEEN THEM WAS GONE AND BECAUSE OF THIS THE HOLY CREATOR NO LONGER CAME TO BE WITH THEM IN THE TEMPLE, AND IT WAS DESTROYED AND BURNED TO PIECES, BY AN EVIL EMPIRE WHICH RULED THE WORLD BECAUSE CREULTY WAS ALLOWED TO BUILD UP, WHEN THE SHEEP NO LONGER ABIDED BY THE BOOK OF LIFE. SO THIS WAS A GREAT TRAGEDY. THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER TRY TO GO IN THE CREATOR'S WAYS AND ANOTHER TEMPLE WAS BUILT, YET THE SHEEP AGAIN FELL TO HATRED AND THIS SECOND TEMPLE WAS ALSO BURNED AND DESTROYED BY EVIL EMPIRES WHICH RULED CREULLY IN THE WORLD. AND BECAUSE THE SHEEP STRAYED FROM THE PATH OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, THEY ALSO STOPPED SINGING PRAISES TO THE CREATOR, FOR INSIDE THEY DI NOT FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEIR STRAYING PATH AND THEY ALSO THOUGHT THAT THE CREATOR HAD LEFT THEM AND HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THEM, AND ABOUT HIS PROMISE TO THEIR GREAT ANCESTOR SHEEP. OF COURSE, THIS WAS NOT TRUE, AS THE CREATOR ALL ALONG THE YEARS, AT ALL TIMES, WAS WATCHING AND YEARNING FOR THE SHEEP NATION TO RETURN TO HIS GOOD WAYS. HE SENT MANY MESSANGERS TO URGE THE NATION TO COME BACK TO THE CREATOR'S GOOD WAYS SAYING:

11 "RETURN TO ME AND I SHALL RETURN TO YOU:'' YET THEY COULD NOT BUILD UP THE COURAGE TO LEAVE THEIR OWN SELFISH DESIRES AND THEY DID NOT REALISE THAT THE WHOLE WORLD WAS BEING DESTROYED DUE TO THEIR REBELLIOUS WAYS THE SHEEP ALSO CHANGED INSIDE, FROM KIND AND MODEST PEOPLE, THEIR STARYING HAD CAUSED THEM TO ADOPT MANY CRUEL WAYS OF THE BEASTS AROUND THEM, INSTEAD OF DOING THEIR MISSION, OF HELPING ALL THE WORLD'S CREATURES TO DEVELOP THE KIND AND TRUTHFUL WAYS TAUGHT BY THE CREATOR IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. THEIR PURE GOLDEN HEART AND SOUL WERE COVERED WITH MANY LAYERS OF DIRT AND MANY EVEN REFUSED TO LEND A HELPING HAND TO A PLEADING POOR SHEEP BROTHER OR SISTER AND THIS ANGERED THE CREATOR VERY MUCH, TO SEE HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS HARDENING THEIR HEARTS LIKE THIS. YET HE NEVER GAVE UP ON THEM, AND SENT MANY WISE SAGES AND MESSENGERS TO KEEP ENCOURAGING THE NATION TO RETURN TO THE WAYS OF THE TRUTH AS THE YEARS PASSED BY, WHERE EVER THE SHEEP STRAYED TO, THEY ADOPED MANY EVIL WAYS OF THE NEIGHBOURING BEASTS, AND PRETENDED TO BE HAPPY IN THEIR LOWLY PLACE WHICH THEY SAW AS FREEDOM FROM THE BURDENS OF THE DUTIES TOLD IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. SOME GROUPS ACTUALLY WERE SO LOST IN

12 THEIR EVIL WAYS, THAT THEY TURNED AGAINST THEIR OWN BROTHERS, THE SAGES, WHO WERE ENCOURAGING THE ADHERENCE AND RETURN TO THE WAYS OF THE BOOK OF LIFE. THIS IN-FIGHTING AGAINST THE CREATOR'S MESSENGERS AND THE OPPOSITION TO THE WAYS OF THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS A GREAT TRAGEDY, AS IT RESULTED IN THE EVIL NATIONS OF THE WORLD TURNING AGAINST THE SHEEPNATION, AND THIS RESULTED IN MANY EPISODES OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND AN UPSURING OF TERRIBLE VIOLENCE ALL THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD WERE SAYING THAT THE SHEEP WERE DESTURBING THE PEACE IN THE WORLD AND THERE WAS A NOT SO HIDDEN MESSAGE IN THIS FOR THE SHEEP, THAT INDEED, THEIR LEAVING THE GOOD PATH OF THE CREATOR WAS ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD. ONE TIME A VERY CRUEL ENEMY AROSE WHO TRIED TO KILL ALL THE SHEEP IN THE WORLD, SAYING THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT THEM, HOWEVER, THE CREATOR DID NOT FORSAKE HIS SPECIAL CHOSEN CREATIONS AND HE SAVED THEM FROM THE EVIL PEOPLE WITH THE VERY EVIL NEUROTIC LEADER ZELOUSLY AND WITH MIGHT DESTROYING THE EVILDOERS. ACTUALLY EVERY EVIL LEADERS IN ALL TIMES WHO ATTACKED THE SHEEP WAS STRICKEN HARSHLY BY THE CREATOR FOR THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST HIS SPECIAL CREATIONS.

13 BUT' FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW, WHILE THE SHEEP NATION WAS BEING ATTACKED, THE LEADERS REMMINDED THE NATION THAT FOR THE WORLD TO BE SAVED THE NATION MUST GO IN THE WAYS OF THE ANCIENT BOOK LEFT OVER FROM THE GREAT LEADER LONG AGO AND, AFTER THESE TRAGEDIES, HEAVENLY MERCY WAS SHED UPON THEM, AND EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE STILL NOT ON THE RIGHT PATH, THE SHEEPNATION MERITED TO RETURN TO THE LAND PROMISED TO THEIR ANCESTORS LONG AGO. AS A VERY WISE SAGE TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THE SHEEP NATION, THEY MUST COME BACK TO THE PATH OF THE JUST, AND LIKE THOSE WHO WALK IN THE DARKNESS AND DO NOT SEE THE OBSTACLES BEFORE THEM, SUCH ARE THE SHEEP THAT STRAY FROM THE PATH OF TRUTH. AGAIN, THE WORDS OF THE SAGE DID NOT PENETRATE THE HEARTS OF THE MOST SHEEP, AND AS HE EXPLAINED, THEY WERE TOO BUSY IN THEIR SEEMINGLY IMPORTANT LIVES TO PONDER THE MEANING OF LIFE AND TO CARE FOR THEIR DELICATE SOULS. THE SAGES EVEN FAUGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES, FOR THE SITUATION BECAME SO CONFUSED THAT THEY ARGUED ON WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO LEAD THE STRAYING NATION, AND HOW BEST TO BRING THE SHEEP BACK TO CREATOR. SOME TRIED TO DO IT BY FORCE, AND THIS USUALLY DID NOT WORK, YET ONLY

14 REPELED THE STRAYING SHEEP FURTHER AND MADE THEM FEEL THAT THEY HAVE NO HOPE TO FIX ALL THE WRONG THEY HAVE DONE. A NEWLY INSPIRED WAY FROM THE SAGE OF THE GOOD NAME, WAS TO ENCOURAGE THE NATION THAT THEY HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL TO BRING LIGHT TO THE WORLD, AND BY UNRAVELLING THE SECRETS OF THE BOOK OF LIFE TO THE COMMONSHEEP, HE AROUSED MANY TO RETURN TO GOD'S WAYS, EXPLAINING TO US THAT GOD LOVES US VERY MUCH AND DESIRES SO MUCH THAT WE SHALL RETURN TO HIM, NOMATTER WHAT WE HAVE DONE, LIKE A FATHER WHO YEARNS FOR HIS FAR AWAY CHILD TO RETURN TO HIS LOVING ARMS YET SOME LEADERS WHO WERE ALSO TAINTED AT HEART AND HAD STRAYED FROM THE TEACHINGS OF OUR FOREFATHERS OF LOVE AND KINDNESS, WERE STUBBORN AND PROUD, AND TOUGH, AND DISCOURAGED THIS WAY OF LOVE AND POSITIVITY. THEY OPPOSED THE SAGES OF THIS NEW MOVEMENT OF LOVE AND KINDNESS, AND THIS STUBBORNESS AND ARROGANCE LEAD TO FURTHER DESTRUCTIONS, AND THE COMMONSHEEP WERE INFLUENCED BY THIS DISRUPTION IN THE ENERGIES. THEIR HEART WAS ALSO HARDENED AND THEY PERSUED POSITIONS OF FAME HONOUR AND FORTUNE. FORGOING THEIR VALUES OF TRUTH AND KINDNESS, THEY COMPETED WITH THE WORLD'S BEASTS FOR LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND

15 THEY WERE ACTING MORE AND MORE LIKE THE OTHER BEASTS, EVEN CHANGING THEIR SHEEP NAMES TO OTHER COMMON BEAST NAMES. DUE TO THIS MASS STRAYING FROM GOOD, THERE WAS A GREAT DISRUPTION IN THE FORCE AND IN THE BALANCE OF THE WORLD, AND THE BAD WEIGHED THE SCALES OF JUDGEMENT. BECAUSE THE SHEEP WERE THE GUARDIANS OF THE FAITH, AND OF THE PEACE IN THE WORLD, AND THROUGH THEIR GOOD ACTIONS ALL THE WORLD WAS SAVED, THE STRAYING CAUSED CHAOS TO GROW INT THE WORLD. DESTRUCTION WAS WIDESPREAD, AND BEASTS OF MANY NATIONS HAD UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSES TO DO HARM AND BE VIOLENT, ALL AS A RESULT OF THE ENERGETIC IMBALANCE CAUSED BY THE SHEEP'S STRAYING FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE. SUFFERING SPREAD AND THE SHEEP WERE BLAMED BY THE NATIONS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE BAD IN THE WORLD. THIS WAS THE CREATOR SPEAKING THROUGH THE EVIL NATIONS YET THE SHEEP TOOK NO NOTICE, NOT REALISING THAT THIS WAS A DIRECT MESSAGE FOR THEM TO RETURN TO THE WAYS OF THE BOOK OF LIFE.

16 AT THE SAME TIME, THOUGH, THE LIGHT OF THAT SAGE OF THE GOOD NAME GREW SLOWLY, SPREADING THE TEACHINGS FROM HIS DISCIPLES TO THE NATION. MORE AND MORE RETURNED TO THE CREATOR'S WAYS WITH JOY. AS THE SHEEP RETURNED TO THE GOOD WAYS, AND THE WAYS OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, THE DIRT AND FILTH THAT COVERED THE SHEEP'S HEARTS WAS CLEANED OFF, LAYER BY LAYER. )PICTURE OF GLOWING HEART WITHIN THE SHEEP) THE SHEEP REALISED THAT WHAT THE LEADERS WERE SAYING ALL THOSE YEARS WAS NOT THE ULTIMATE TRUTH, AND WHAT THE RIGHTEOUS SHEEP OF THE GOOD NAME AND HIS DESCIPLES WAS THE RIGHT PATH, OF JOY AND HAPPINESS, AND EVERY SHEEP REALISED HOW MUCH POTENTIAL THEY HAVE TO DO GOOD IN THE WORLD, AND HOW MUCH GOOD THEIR GOOD DEEDS DO, EVEN MORE THAN THEY UNDERSTAND. MORE AND MORE SHEEP WERE TURNING TO THE CREATOR AND SAYING "DEAR CREATOR, FATHER IN HEAVEN, HELP ME TO RETURN TO YOUR WAYS, HELP ME DO ONLY GOOD, AND LEARN THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND LIVE BY IT "

17 SO MANY OF THE GENERATION WERE TURNING TO THE PATH OF THE CREATOR, THE RIGHTEOUS PATH, AND FULFILLING THE DEAL THAT THEY HAD WITH THE CREATOR. THE NEW GENERATION TURNED TO THIS PATH OF THE JUST HAPPILY, FEELING A DEEP CONNECTION WITH THE CREATOR, THROUGH PERFORMING HIS LAWS AND REALISING THAT THIS WAS THE BEST FOR THEM. THEIR HEARTS GLADDENED WHILE PERFORMING THE MANY DAILY TASKS THAT WERE SET OUT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. THE MALE SHEEP FELT JOY WHEN PUTTING THE SPECIAL BLACK BOXES (WITH SACRED PARCHMENTS INSIDE) ON THEIR ARM AND HEAD, WHEN WRAPPING THEMSELVES WITH SPECIAL HOLY GARMENTS WITH SKY BLUE AND WHITE TASSLES. THE FEMALE SHEEP FOUND GREAT JOY AND LIGHT WHEN LIGHTING THE CANDLES FOR THE SABBATH, PREPARING THE HOLY DOUGH FOR THE SPECIAL SABBATH BREAD, AND DIPPING IN SPECIAL PURITY BATHS. AND MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ALIKE, HAD GREAT JOY, PEACE AND TRANQUILITY IN THE HOLY SABBATH, THE SEVENTH DAY, IN WHICH NO WORK IS DONE, A DAY OF PURE SPIRITUALITY, OF SINGING, TELLING STORIES AND EATING SPECIAL DELICIOUS FOODS. ALSO, ALL SHEEP ENJOYED THE LEARNING OF THE SACRED BOOK OF LIFE, ON WHICH THE WHOLE WORLD STANDS.

18 OF COURSE, AS TOLD BY THE SAGES OF OLD, AND THE BOOK OF LIVE ITSELF, WHEN THE SHEEP WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE CREATOR, ALL THE ANIMALS AND BEASTS ALSO REALISED THAT THE SHEEP WERE THE CHOSEN ONES AND ALSO FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF THE SHEEP TO WORSHIP AND THANK THE ONE LOVING CREATOR WHO CREATED EVERYONE AND THE WHOLE WORLD. THE SHEEP HAD A SPECIAL SOUL, CALLED A 'NESHAMA' AND THE OTHER ANIMALS ALSO HAD A SOUL, CALLED A 'NEFESH' AND THE LAWS OF THE CREATOR ARE SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO NOURISH THE SOULS OF ALL THE CREATIONS. SO THE SHEEP SPREAD THE WORD OF THE CREATOR, BY EXAMPLE, AND BY TEACHING, TO ALL CREATIONS. THE WAYS OF TRUTH, OF HONESTY AND OF GOODNESS AND CHARITY. A VERY RIGHTEOUS SHEEP CAME TO EARTH TO TEACH TO NEVER DESPAIR AND ALWAYS BE CHARITABLE AND HAPPY NOT ONLY MOST BUT ALL OF THE TIME! AND THIS SAGE SHEEP WHO LOVED ALL SHEEP AND WANTED US ALL TO GET CLOSE TO OUR CREATOR, WAS ENCOURAGING THE SHEEP NATION TO SERVE THE CREATOR HAPPILY, AND NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR LACKS' BUT LOOK AT ALL WE HAVE, AND BE THANKFUL FOR IT! HE ENCOURAGED TO TALK TO THE CREATOR, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE, FROM THE HEART, THANKING HIM FOR ALL WE HAVE,

19 AND ASKING FOR OUR NEEDS LIKE A SON ASKS A FATHER FOR WE ARE ALL REALLY HIS SONS. THROUGH THIS WISE ADVICE MORE AND MORE SHEEP RETURNED TO THE RIGHTOEUS PATH, REALISING THAT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS THE TRUE PATH, AND ALL THE REST IS LIES AND VANITY. THEY REALISED THAT THE 'LAWS' WERE CONNECTIONS TO THE DIVINE, AND THAT WHAT SEEMED AS STRICT COMMANDMENTS WERE ACTUALLY FOR THEIR OWN GOOD. AND FOR THE GOOD OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. FOR THE SAKE OF THE MISSION AND TO FULFIL THEIR DEAL THAT THEY (THEIR GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHERS) MADE WITH THE CREATOR, A LONG TIME AGO. BY DOING THE CREATOR'S MISSION, THE SHEEP WERE DOING GOOD FOR EACHOTHER AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, FOR EACH SHEEP WAS PART OF THE OTHER SHEEP. IN A SPECIAL CONNECTION, THE SHEEP WERE LIKE PARTS OF THE SAME BODY, SHARING THE SAME SOUL. EACH GOOD DEED THAT ONE SHEEP DID AFFECTED THE OTHER SHEEP AND BROUGHT GOODNESS INTO THE HEARTS OF ALL THE SHEEP AND TOGETHER THE SHEEP WORKED TO RESTORE PEACE HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO THE WHOLE WORLD. NOW WE WILL TELL ABOUT ONE SPECIAL SHEEP. A SHEEP THAT ONCE THOUGHT HE WAS A DRAGON. THIS SHEEP LIVED LIKE ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS, NOT WANTING TO LIVE IN THE WAY OF THE ANCESTOR

20 SHEEP THAT THE CREATOR HAD TOLD THE SHEEP TO LIVE BY. HE WANTED TO DO THINGS HIS OWN WAY, AND HE BECAME AS IF LIKE THE OTHER ANIMALS. HE TRANSFORMED INTO A DRAGON SHEEP. ONE DAY, HE FOUND OUT HE WAS A SHEEP. BUT HOW? IT WAS THANKS TO HIS DRAGON SON! WHAT? A SHEEP HAD A DRAGON SON? YES. T'IS TRUE. AT THE TIME THAT HE THOUGHT HE WAS A DRAGON, HE MET A DRAGONETTE AND THEY HAD A LITTLE CUTE BABY DRAGON. OH THE BABY DRAGON WAS SO CUDDLY, AND CUTE, AND WAS PLAYING WITH THE DADDY SHEEP, AND THE DADDY SHEEP LOVED THE BABY DRAGON SO MUCH. AND THEY.. WAIT A MINUTE! HOW DID THE DADDY SHEEP THAT THOUGHT HE WAS A DRAGON FIND OUT HE WAS REALLY A SHEEP AND NOT A DRAGON? AHH THIS IS VERY INTERESTING! FUNILY- IT WAS ALL THANKS TO THE SON DRAGON. WHAT?! HOW? WELL, THE LITTLE CUTE BABY DRAGON WAS OF COURSE NEEDING OF LOTS OF LOVE AND ATTENTION, AND NURTURING, AND THANKS TO HIM, THE DADDY SHEEP FOUND HIS SENSE OF LOVE AND COMPASSION AND CARE. THE FATHER SHEEP GOT UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN THE BABY DRAGON WAS CRYING FROM TUMMY PAINS, AND THE DADDY SHEEP TOOK THE BABY DRAGON FOR A WALK WHEN HE WAS CRYING FROM BORDOM, AND THE DADDY SHEEP FED THE BABY

21 DRAGON HIS MASHED MEALS, AND BATHED AND MASSAGED HIM WITH SPECIAL OILS THE FATHER OPENED HIS HEART SO MUCH AND THROUGH THIS LOVE, THE SHEEP FATHER FOUND HIS INNER DIVINE SOUL OF LOVE, AND REALISED HE WAS A SHEEP. SOME GREAT LIGHT SWITCHED ON HIS SOUL TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS A SHEEP, AND HE FELT A GREAT LOVE FOR THE WORLD AND ALL BEINGS AND A GREAT LOVE AND THANKFULLNESS TO THE CREATOR. HE BEGAN TO LIVE LIKE A GOOD SHEEP, AND TO WALK TO WAYS OF THE CREATOR. YET HE STILL LOVED THE BABY DRAGON VERY MUCH, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE DIFFERENT CREATURES WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOULS. WHEN THAT DADDY SHEEP WENT ON A JOURNEY FAR AWAY HE MISSED HIS SON DRAGON VERY MUCH, AND HOPED AND PRAYED THAT HE WILL BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY AND THAT THEY WILL SOON BE TOGETHER. THE SHEEP FATHER HOPED THAT HIS SON WILL BE A GENTLE DRAGON, AND BE GOOD TO OTHERS. THIS DADDY SHEEP WOULD ONE DAY BECOME A GREAT MIGHTY LEADER OF THE SHEEP. HE CARED SO MUCH ABOUT HIS FELLOW SHEEP, THAT HE TRIED TO HELP IN MANY WAYS. TO ORGANISE CHARITY FOR THE POOR AND NEEDY, MEDICINE FOR THE SICK, AND TRIED TO MAKE PEACE WITHIN THE NATION. IT PAINED THIS GREAT LEADER SHEEP SO MUCH THAT THE SHEEP WERE IN MANY GROUPS AND SOME OPPOSED THE OTHERS.

22 HE ENCOURAGED ALL SHEEP TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, BEGGING THEM TO UNITE AND MAKE PEACE: "LET US UNITE, DEAR BRETHREN SHEEP, LET US ALL BE ONE, AND WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE ALL GOOD CREATOR. LET US OBLY BLESS AND HELP ONE ANOTHER, AND BE IN PEACE AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER. THE WHOLE WORLD DEPENDS ON THIS! THE WHOLE WORLD IS RELYING ON US!" WHEN THE DRAGON BOY WOULD GROW UP, HE WOULD ALSO HELP HIS SHEEP FATHER TO HELP ALL THE SHEEP AND ALL THE WORLD TO WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE CREATOR AND BRING GREAT LIGHT TO THE WORLD, AND HELP THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW THAT GOD IS THE CREATOR, AND HE IS GOOD, AND KIND, AND AS THE GREAT KING SHEEP (THIS DADDY SHEEP'S GREAT GREAT GREAT VERY WISE GRANDFATHER) ONCE SAID: "THANK THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD, AND FOREVER IS HIS KINDNESS:" AND ALL THE CREATURES OF THE WORLD WILL UNITE TO PRAISE THE CREATOR, AND THANK HIM, AND ALL WILL BE PEACEFUL FOREVER

23 AND PERHAPS ONE DAY THE DRAGON BOY WOULD ALSO BECOME A SHEEP, LIKE HIS FATHER WE WILL SOON SEE YES- THIS IS A TRUE STORY, AND THE END IS A HAPPY END. WITH BLESSINGS OF PEACE AND JOY, HEALTH AND PROSPERITY TO ALL. אמן AMEN DR. SHALOM

24 SHEEP IN THE MEADOW By Dr Shalom! THIS IS A STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THE MORALS IN THIS STORY ARE VERY CLEAR. THOSE WHO ENJOY IT, AND REALISE LESSONS THAT ARISE FROM IT, ARE WELCOME TO TAKE PART IN THE REDEMPTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE WORLD, BY RETURING TO THE WAYS OF THE CREATOR, THAT HE HAS INSTRUCTED US 'SHEEP', TO BE HIS FAITHFUL SERVANTS AND MESSANGERS IN THIS WORLD, TO BRING LIGHT AND TRUTH TO THE WORLD. TOGETHER, IN PEACE AND LOVE, WE WILL BE ABLE TO GROW TO A GREAT LEADING NATION, AND BE A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, SPREADING GOD'S TRUTH AND GOODNESS. "THANK THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD, AND FOREVER IS HIS KINDNESS:" TEHILLIM (PSALMS) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr Shalom IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR, WHO IS INVOLVED IN HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH, PEACE NEGOTIATION AND SPIRITUAL COACHING! HEALTH AND WITH BLESSINGS OF PEACE AND JOY, PROSPERITY TO ALL. אמן AMEN DR. SHALOM