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Leah’s Blog Parashat Noah 2020
Parshat Noach 2020 Noah’s ark got me thinking about the last time I was on a boat. It was last summer, a hot dry one here in Israel. Our destination -Norway, what a refreshing burst of wet mist as it hit the boat that wet week! Landing on friendly shores, our friend sister and Israel…
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Leah’s Blog Oct 15th 2020
Bereishit 2020 Back to the Garden A young boy in Itamar has set out to prepare the organic garden for autumn. Intuitively, he knows what to do. He tills the earth in a knowing way, it’s in his DNA. Right above the ridge of high rockery, the goats are herding on the craggy mountainside of…
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Leah’s Blog – Yom Kippur 2020
The ground on which u stand is holy” world renown archeologist and Israel Antiquities authority Eli Shukrun told us as we went down into a labyrinth of tunnels almost slipping on wet ancient stone steps that descended into darkness. He could not hide his excitement as he wiped his brow and rearranged his white straw…
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Leah’s Blog
Nitzavim September 11, 2020 As Israel is about to enter a new lockdown I was just thinking how liberating in certain ways it is to chill out, and pre-pare for the holiday as more time home enables it. I’m discovering coriander using it on meat, in salads and wondering if the memory of its taste…
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Leah’s Blog Sep 2 2020
Ki Tavo September 2 2020 A special cousin of mine gathered the family to third and fourth cousins for a synchronized zoom meeting this summer. It was a gesture of good will, it really was since there were many of us who didn’t know each other and he painstakingly sought each one of us out…
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Leah’s Blog Aug 21 2020
Shoftim 2020 Elul is here, I have no idea how that happened. The weather has turned autumn-like before its time. I am raking leaves here in the ideal sunset time of a cool breezy sky dotted with the first clouds that always usher in Rosh Hashana. A haze of light gold showers the sky as…
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Leah’s Blog Aug 13 2020
Parshat Re-eh August 2020 My maternal grandmother of blessed memory was a firestorm! She had a strong German accent, orange eyes and a peppery personality. She did everything she could to show loyalty to the country that took her and my grandfather,my mom and her brother in 1938 when they took one of the last…
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Leah’s Blog – The nine Days July 22 2020
The Nine Days July 21 2020 As a little girl, I liked to leave the familiar reality of being immersed in the present time at my bedroom windowsill in Brooklyn New York. Life was made more brilliant as it took me on a journey through my favorite book, a pictured hard covered old Bible. The…
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Leah’s Blog July 3 2020
Balak 2020 Our holy sages have told us long ago that Parshat Balak, more than any other parsha in the entire Torah hints at the final redemption- how it was – how it will be. Nations will come together and try to curse and jinx Israel but only grace and blessings concurred. We see the…
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Leah’s Blog June 26 2020
The world revolves on an even axis of mercy and judgment. These are the two legs that support the world. When someone has reached the level of feeling G-d, he can easily see these attributes and know how Hashem is relating to him, either in mercy (Chesed) – when he receives the gifts of bounty…