Throughout all the generations, the book of Bereishit has been the beating heart of the Torah. The stories told here are great and wondrous, they are love stories. Hither in the Land of Israel every stone and hill has secrets to share about how it all happened, right here. On these high mountains that run…

Ki Tavo    August 2021 “V’haya ki tavo el Haaretz” (When you come into the Land) (Dvarim 26:1) Our parsha focuses on layers of time, about recalling deliverance from the bondage of Egypt, the journey of wandering the desert, that domain of emptiness where nothing was accessible and nothing was needed, nursing Divine inspiration all the…

Ki Tetzeh August 2021 Sometime in the earlier years here when things were raw and at times painful to the degree of unbearable, people from around the world started venturing out to us to show solidarity. The Oslo accords had devastated us and put weapons into the hands of terrorists that murdered many people we…

Leah’s Blog- SHOFTIM 2021 Is it me or do you feel a war about to happen? I’ve been pushed back by liberals that only want to talk about snakes and snails and puppy dog tails as cities burn and enforcement crumbles. Aaron, one of Rabbi Moshe’s students in Afghanistan has not come up on what’s…

Leahs Blog- Parshat Eikev 2021 Good things come out of a box in Michal’s new thrift store here. It’s ironic that at the top of the carton, a pair of Ben and Jerry’s flip flops stare me in the face. Exactly my size, I try them on, and hear a song playing in my mind…

Tisha B’Av 2021 Erev Tisha B’Av 2021. There is a place I like to go in the little bend at the bottom of the road that wraps around the ample body of Mount Gerizzim. There is no sign to it as there are no signs here, only an old rusty plaque on the mikveh, “Mikve…

Parshat Pinchas July 1, 2021 In Judaism lineage is a crucial part of identity, in the ability to know who we are directly related to; someone that lived a very long time ago. There are descendants of Priests (Kohanim) that have made it to this very day and they know who they are. Some are…