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 Rabbei
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
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
Leah’s Blog Tu B’Shvat 2021
Leah’s Blog – Tu B’Shvat 2021 Our earliest neighbors here on Itamar were (and are) organic farmers. Back in those days the remoteness of Samaria in its new beginnings enabled
Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2021
Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2021 My life is like a movie. It pulses down and up rapidly- like the monitor of a beating heart, my beating heart. Down and up down and u
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vaerah 2021
Vaera – 2021 Time is speeding by and I can’t do things fast enough. It’s Thursday morning and I’m baking challah; The dough bubbles and rises slowly, but my tim
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayechi 2021
Vayechi 2021 The tractate of Baba Batrah in the Gemara tells us about a place in the forest that the doe goes to in order to give birth. The bam
Leah’s Blog Dec 24th 2020
Vayigash 2020 You know that part of the wedding when the photographer passes around the mike and poignant statements are videoed for life? Uncle Milty’s took the
Leah’s Blog Parashat Miketz 2020
Miketz 2020 Socialism: You have two cows. You keep one and you give one to your neighbor. Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Communism: You hav
Leah’s blog Dec 10th 2020
Way before I met and knew Shakid, and our other Pashtun brothers, I thought I knew everything about Yosef HaTzaddik. Joseph’s tomb site was once a secure attachment for us. L
