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Leah’s Blog Tom Haatzmaut 2022 – Israel Independence day
Yom Haatzmaut – The truth about God A wall of sound pierces the hem of the Kotel as the siren wails into the night. The sky is black and the dim lights of the mosque overhead seems dormant and still , yet The Wall seems to almost fall forward. Beyond it, all through Ramadan, cries…
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Leah’s Blog Pesach 2022
Pesach – About Bread, Matzoh, Maror Then and Now -2022 A donkey is braying, a helicopter is chopping up the air, whipping and hovering above the valley between the twin mountains facing me. The Yesod is under attack, again they chip away at the grave of Yosef. Shechem Ben Chamor, why do aim your hate,…
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Leah’s Blog Tazria 2022
Tazria – 2022 We are all in a national anxiety here, close to a heart attack. People look behind them as they walk in the street, feeling unsafe. Truth being said- they ARE NOT SAFE. Terror walks in our midst.The false narrative that has waved the banner of capitulation, deception and deceitfulness is crumpling in…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Shmini 2022
Parshat Shemini – 2022 Life and death seem to take the headline now. Some of us are able to recognize things more; our sense of alertness peaks. The apprehension we all feel resonates in how we interpret the time we live in now. This is the time for –חשבון נפש – introspection. Imagine yourself in…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Pikudey
Leah’s Blog Parashat Pikudey – 2022 The red poppies carpeting the cold wet grass of early spring about to come remind me always of beauty as the backdrop of pain. The clown faces of Adar with Purim marking the time turn my heart round and around- for the people of Itamar it is a time…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Terumah 2022
Terumah – February 2022 Infinity has a home “Make for Me a Sanctuary and I will dwell within them.” Stooping down, Eli Shookroon, an expert on the City of David and its surroundings, perceived the glimmer of a thing of our rich past beckoning to be revealed. Mount Moriah, the home of the Holy Temples…
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Leah’s Blog January 27 2022 Holocaust Memorial
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY January 2022 A few weeks ago it came out that Russia was stockpiling soldiers and ammunition on the eastern border of the Ukraine, the pictures of the tanks, missiles and heavy artillery drove home a message. This is a pressing moment for the world. I saw this piece of news just as…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Yitro 2022
Leah’s Blog Parashat Yitro Yitro – the righteous gentile who had the seychel (sense) I’m sure I’ve told you this – I’m in the middle of writing a book. It got stuck somewhere in 2001 when I stumbled in the chapter “War stories”. A close friend, Rico and I always call our interesting negative experiences…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Bishalach 2022
Beshalach 2022 2,000 year old coins that say “Freedom to Zion” were some of those unearthed in a cache hidden under layers of earth, stones and grass here. Earthquakes and wars left their mark on our little Tel here in Itamar- the mark of desolation. The Jewish revolt against the Romans wasn’t the only time…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2022
Parshat Bo – 2022 “Come” is the literal translation of Bo, a mantra we hopefully recognize and realize in the purpose of the Exodus. “Come near” Yosef HaTzaddik says when he reveals himself to his brothers. (Something Corona is not enabling us to do these days….) Flashbacks into the first scenes of the book of…