Who is your spiritual mentor?

Answer 1

my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ...

Answer 2

Hmmm, all dead or famous people? I freely admit I have none because there's nobody I talk to about spiritual matters on a regular basis. There are many I listen to or read, but none I would call a mentor (none that would know me by sight).

Answer 3

John Lennon

Answer 4

I admired Pope John Paul II quite a bit, not as a dogmatic figure but for his humanity. The Dalai Lama is amazing.

Answer 5

Swamy Vivekananda.

Answer 6

Lao Tzu the founder of Taoism.

Answer 7

Stewey!!!!!

All hail Stewey!

Good someone said Vivekananda. He knows what he's talking about.

Seriously, Buddha, Dalai Lama, and Krishna are three great examples, although I couldn't measure up to any one of them. I doubt anyone alive could.

Answer 8

You weren't here earlier when I was struttin' my stuff to impress my man the Retard, were you?

Answer 9

I'm still looking for one person, but for now, those who inspire.

Answer 10

The Orthodox rabbi in my community. He does many things that we know about i.e. like leading the congregation, giving lessons on Judaism, visiting the sick, and etc. But he also does great deed that we as congregants find out only by complete accidents. Bellow I would like to describe to you one of his deeds that we found out about when all of the sudden a strange woman approached our rabbi, as a group of us were walking to synagogue on Shabbas, and gave him a hug. Now, Orthodox Jews do not hug any women that are not his immediate family or his wife. So, we were in complete shock. She spoke to him for few minutes thanked him, squeezed his hand and left. We asked her how she knew the rabbi and she told us her story.

Her name was Maria (I will avoid using her real name) and she happened to find herself in a predicament. She and her husband were Catholics from Columbia. Her husband used to work there as a civil servant and when one of his children was wounded by one of the drug dealers they decided to pack their bags and come to America. He tried doing several things in America, but decided to become a policeman. As it is customary in their culture, the wife stayed at home and looked after the kids. Staying at home also meant that she did not need to converse in English. Well, though the job as a policeman is dangerous, however, the family was not prepared to what happened next. Her husband found out that he had liver cancer and a year latter he passed away. The medical bills and her not working placed the family in dire need of cash. As soon as she buried her husband, another tragedy happened her 10 year old daughter fell down some stairs and broke her spine that left her feet disabled. Then to add more salt into the wound the mother herself found out that she had breast cancer. So, she had a terrible year. Not able to pay her medical bills, her rent, and her other bills, she was evicted and her children were taken by the social workers while she was in the hospital recuperating from her surgery. When she was dismissed from the hospital she had nowhere to go. She wanted to take her two healthy kids but the social workers denied her and her injured daughter still had to have a lot of medical attention.

Well, coming out of a hospital with nowhere to go and unable to help her kids, she purchased a bottle of vodka to drink her sorrows away. Well, as she was walking drunk, mumbling something and experiencing pain she stumbled into my rabbi. She started speaking Spanish to him and he could not understand her. My rabbi knows fluently English, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German so; Spanish was not a language that he was most familiar with. Not able to understand her, he asked her to repeat what she was saying in English. Well, she did not understand him nor he her. She then past out in his arms. He called an ambulance for her and they took her to the hospital he came to visit her the next morning out of his concern. When he arrived to the hospital through a nurse he was able to discover what was ailing her.

He decided to help her. The first thing that he did was to find her a shelter and he was able to do it through one of his dear friends who was from Argentina and so knew Spanish and his family took her in. The next thing he did for her was to send her to take English classes in the community and paid for it out of his own pocket. He then found her a part time job in a dry cleaning business so that she can both get her English skills as well as make some living. When that machine was rolling he then went to the social services and started the process of reuniting the mother with her children. Upon discovering how much she owed to the hospital he met with the director of the hospital to lower her bills. He knew him personally for he has been coming as a rabbi to this hospital for 15 years to visit the sick members from his congregation. He was able to lower her bills by 65%. So, her bills which amounted to over 500K dollars for all the surgeries that her husband, her daughter and her had to have the bills were greatly reduced. Seven years went by since he had met her and now Maria has an apartment of her own, speaks fluent English, has a full time job working in that dry cleaning business as a manager, and has all of her kids living with her in a three bedroom apartment. So, when she saw my rabbi she wanted to thank him from the bottom of her heart for doing such Godly deed for her and her family, even though, she was not Jewish.

When we heard this story from her it made us realize how lucky we were to have such a rabbi n our community. She also made us proud to be Jewish.

Answer 11

Black Elk.