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Leah’s Blog Rosh Hashana 2022
Leah’s Blog Rosh Hashanah 2022- THE TIME HASHEM REMEMBERS US AS WE REMEMBER HIM! Dusky red grapes still cling on the vine as Tomer and Meytal complete their ritual to the last plonk. Volunteers of all ages have been plucking and pulling the final sun ripened fruit with them. The air is beginning to…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Ki Teizei 2022
Ki Tiezeh – Remembering Amalek There is something about the stage of Eretz Yisrael and the props that pop up in their season that remind you of the time and occasion about to come. The foreshadowing of the white clouds that roll in after the long hot summer, when the sky is void of mists…
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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Shoftim 2022
Shoftim – The way we judge I don’t know if you’re familiar with reality TV here in Israel. Versions of Master Chef, “American” Idol, Big Brother: There is an excess of them flooding society, grinding the culture of brutal judging into the psyche of every spectator. Aspiring contestants are dragged to the ground, the superficially…
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Leah’s Blog Re’eh 2022
Parshat Re’eh Close Encounters of the First Kind It’s always thrilling to me to ride up Mount Gerizim and Mount Eval. In the realm of so distinguished a territory, it makes me heady and ready to follow a willfulness unexplained since the days of Abraham. Up on top of one mountain, I can see and…
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Leah’s Blog – Eikev 2022
Eikev 2022 – Leah’s blog – I Will Follow There has been more riveting news lately- did you notice? The world turns and history repeats itself yet things take a turn, they morph into more mature spheres of reality. I almost missed the small but significant segment on the Aliyah of 250 Jews through Nefesh…
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Leah’s Blog The ninth of Av
The Ninth of Av- This is the day of our destiny A time of sorrow, a time of might. This is the day of our destiny. In an atmosphere of mourning, we have done so for two thousand years: crying in exile. Then and now terror grips unto this date. Today the cry of the…
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Leah’s Blog Rosh Chodesh Av
Chodesh Av 2022 We are opening the nine days, a time of mourning and destruction, a time we remember the selling of Yosef by his brothers, the sin of the spies that brought a bad report of Eretz Yisrael and of course the broken and ravaged Temples of Jerusalem, a time of great calamity. We…
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Leah’s Blog Parahshat Chukat – July 4th
July 4th weekend and thoughts about Patriotism in Israel OK- so here it goes, you definitely don’t know this about me- when I was young and dumb, life had to teach me a few lessons. Towards the end of my terrible teens I thought I knew better and asked for no advice when signing up…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Korach 2022
Leah’s Blog Korach 2022 Pride and Prejudice It was in the summer of 1986, the end of a year of searching for a hilltop in Judea Samaria while living in an absorption center in Jerusalem that had us unpacking our modest belongings into a prefab into what would become Itamar. Wearing an Israeli flag literally,…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Shlach
Shlach 2022 ACQUIRING ISRAEL THROUGH LOOKING DEEPER When the King of the Kahzars asked the Rabbi in the famous book, “The Kuzari” by Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi, how he could describe what being Jewish was in a sentence, he answered, “I am the son of Abraham”. Interestingly of all ways to describe what being Jewish meant…