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Leah’s Blog Parashat Shlach 2021
Shlach 2021 Israel is a place that is difficult to describe but in order to really know it, you need to know yourself, your roots, and ask what Hashem wants from you, specifically. When you first come to it, the smell of it is different, the intonation in people’s voices is different as well as…
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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Bahaltocha 2021
Leah’s Blog- Bahalotcha May 26 2021 I was thinking, as a woman I need to address that aspect of my being into my blog more. The penny dropped for me when I realized how much cancel culture destroyed our intimacy with ourselves and our body images as we’ve been fed a whole doctrine about the…
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Leah’s Blog – The Crown of Malchut (Kingship)
Leah’s Blog The crown of Malchut A person, place and time make up the foundations of a story. When you’re the person that’s placed in that time and that place, with enough plot and theme you’ve got a story to tell. The place we live and the time we live in is not just a…
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Leah’s Blog April 29th 2021 – Lag Ba’Omer
Lag Baomer 2021 In a brave display of self- sacrifice and willingness to take life- threatening risks, teams of archeologists and workers from the Israel Antiquities Authority very recently climbed ropes and shoveled their way on a very specific task, one can say, the call of the hour. They went sifting through endless rubble, using…
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Leah’s Blog -Holocaust Day 2021
Our grasp of history usually hits home from how it touches upon the present time and enables us to perceive our not taken for granted lives now. In Israel all the more so, this phase of time we live in right now in that we are part of a developing story unfolding word for word…
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Leah’s Blog Seventh day of Pesach
Israel, a land of dreams and freedom It wasn’t in the relentless traffic jam on our way to Zichron Yaakov that “go east” had become our motto. On that tiny strip of coast running from Haifa to Ashkelon, people, cars and ever taller buildings cramped any vibe of Sarah Aaronson and her selfless act of…
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Leah’s Blog Pesach 2021
Pesach 2021 Leaning on my overflowing wagon, I escape the supermarket busting in its full glory of bounty and people streaming up and down the aisle like balls in a pinball machine. “You waitin’ for someone?”, the checkout guy asks. Grinning, I say “well- actually yes.” The great DAWN is not a figment of our…
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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Ki Tisa
Ki Tissa 2021 Even before Babylon came crashing down unto Jerusalem, before her outer walls were even ruptured, King Yehoshiyahu took the broken and whole tablets that Moshe Rabbeinu stored in the Ark of the Covenant and hid them somewhere in a cleft in the rocks and down the pits of Mount Moriah. Golden shields…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Trumah 2021
Terumah 2021 This blog was originally intended to share the experiences and pleasantries of a Jewish woman living in the heart of biblical Israel. I’m just an average simple person but I was given a huge task because my perspective is critical. Almost from the time we were able to return to the old stones…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Yitro 2021
Bitya, I saw you at Sinai. It was more like, I saw your silhouette, white on black in a clap of thunder. You were surrounded by a gilded cloud of bronze as the mount surrounded us all. Daughter of Hashem, He became your Father before you heard the fifth commandment. Even before the frogs came,…