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Leah’s Blog – Holocaust Memorial Day 2019
Holocaust Memorial Day- This year’s siren caught me running with a dish of Cheerios towards our grandson. His innocent blue eyes twinkled up at me oblivious to what the siren says to me. I smile back at him taking a second to compute so many reactions to the sound and its meaning. Its that time…
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Leah’s Blog Parshat VaEra January 4 2019
One of the most striking attractions here in Israel is the reconstruction and rehabilitation of historic sites. Antiquated, some are barely noticed at first but textual sources give evidence to their exact location. Never passé or obsolete, old world vintage artifacts sometimes forgotten for thousands of years suddenly appear on front stage. The “remake” merges…
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Leah’s Blog Dec 31 2018
Leah’s Blog Shemot – December 31 2018 The book of Genesis has been closed and a new book pretty much coincides with the secular New Year. As the light of the day becomes a bit longer, the light of the book of Shemot (names) (everything in it reveals above nature reality) reveals more and more…
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Leah’s Blog Dec 21 2018
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Leah’s Blog Dec 14th 2018
Parshat Vayigash Examining history can be a seesaw ride between facts and meaning depending on not just your brain, but your heart and soul involvement in it. Seemingly, you can download facts on your smartphone and immediately know information. But here’s the thing- when it comes to truth and meaning you are still going to…
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Leah’s Blog Nov 16th 2018
Thanksgiving – 2018 Leah’s Blog It’s not for nothing that Israel is called Israel. Even going way back to the beginning of how this nation was formed at its root source, the Torah details for us the way things may have looked different from different angles as the fabric of the common denominator had ours…
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Leah’s Blog Chaye Sarah – Nov 2nd 2018
As I write these words, tens of thousands of Jews from around the world have gathered in Chevron to remember Sarah, our matriarch on her Parsha. There, in Chevron in the cave of Mamre, that site acquired in a LAND Covenant for eternity, she is buried alongside Abraham and our other Avot. Tradition has…
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Leah’s Blog October 15th 2018
Lech Lecha- Go to Yourself What would the world do if the ruins of Machu Picchu came alive and if those people indigenous to it returned to it from the four corners of the globe. Would there be a party? Or would there, strangely- be a resistance; even knowing that all this time the site…
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Leah’s blog Sept 27th 2018
Yoseph’s Pit – Tel Dotan – Sukkot 5779 There were only a few rare times that I had to actually throw my perfectly good shoes away. Last night and the time I returned to the Tomb of Yoseph after it was destroyed by marauding Arabs in that September of 2000. The stinking grey earth clung…
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Leah’s Blog July 20th 2018
The Nine Days 2018 It was a hot day in Av during that mournful week of the Nine Days and we were hardly able to contain our glee. Just a few days away and we would be making Aliyah, starting a new story, taking a new road. Many years ago in the office of the…