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Leah’s Blog Parashat Yitro 2023
Yitro- Love your neighbor as you love yourself -February 2023 I’ve been drinking way too much coffee these days. It calms my jittery nerves though as the world collapses; sounds like an oxymoron right? But this is all organized chaos clearly for the most part anyway. Terror attacks, violent demonstrations, what is up with that!…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Bishalach
Beshalahch – Remebering Yosef – February 2023 If you’re following the news out of Israel closely you probably know there is a pivot in a national attitude to the justice department here as well as to the monopolies on economic conglomerates. The new approach- we must bring about a change. If you want a more…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2023
Parshat Bo – The gleaming power of restart that begins at night January 2023 You know that luxurious feeling when you fall into R.E.M, usually at the dead of night when there are no restraints, you’re floating through dreams taking you deep into running in and out of metaphysical places, in and out of rooms,…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayechi – January 2023
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayigash – Vayechi- Shemot THE FAMILY REDEEMED January 2023 Like the landscape here, the ups and downs of the mountains of Israel tell us the stories of the mothers and fathers of Israel. The twisting turning roads here best describe the plots of the stories; you never know what is going to…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Mikeytz 2022
Mikeytz – FOLDING THE DOUGH December 23 2022 A halo of scent meets you in Jerusalem in the Givat Shaul neighborhood, where Angel Bakery puffs out smoke from its chimney at the crack of dawn. Before moving to Itamar, we lived in Yerushalayim for a year, where I would soak in the delicious flavor of…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayeshev
Vayeshev – Premonition and Thinking Back – December 2022 Many of the biblical stories of our Matriarchs appear at the water pit. The Torah’s imagery of such meetings with Rachel grazing with the sheep in the sweet green meadow, Tzipporah and her sisters saved by Moses in the dry Midyan desert where the baby blue…
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Leah’s Blog Parahat Vayishlach 2022
Leah’s Blog – VAYISHLACH – The everlasting covenant of the Land of the Brit Last night, like many others, there were sounds of explosions and gunfire spilling into the darkness out of Shechem. Yes, this same place- the Old City where Dina was taken by no other than the name of this place- Bedtime should…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Toldot 2022
Leah’s Blog Toldot- The Chronicles of WAR AND PEACE November 2022 As war is impacting us now on a global level, we are again reviewing the chronicles of Jewish and world history in the book of Bereishit. They always seem to run parallel, world events and the story of Israel as we read again and…
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Leah’s Blog Parashat Lech Lecha 2022
Lech Lecha 2022 -ABRAHAM- THE FIRST ZIONIST – The mobilization of the National Religious Party to actualize on core issues of the bringing to fruition of Zionism and settlement, was and is the banner we hold from the time of its inception. As a young American just learning about Gush Emunim, I worked for Dor…
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Leah’s Blog – Sukkot 2022- A time of Healing
Sukkot 2022- A time of Healing Every year we have the mitzvah of the pro- active commandment to feel at home where we should not feel at home – in the sukkah. Comfortable and cozy, I strive to make our sukkah feel like a combination of a tent in Sinai and an Istanbul marketplace. To…