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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Vayerah

Leah’s Blog- VAYERAH- The volatile wave of En Ninjo crashes down. No one can be still, apathetic or complacent. We are reading now in these weekly portions of Bereishit the need for order and making it right. Yishmael is banished from the house on order of our matriarch and for no lack of good reason. The blueprint for all things that have happened are happening right now – we have come full circle. A simple man who sits in tents must contend with Esav as well as we will see. In the coming parshas there is a temporary exile of the grandson of Abraham who holds with in him the CHESED of Avraham and the Gevurah of Yitzchak. He must ride the wave. Things in Israel now happen and ripple like the waves of this event and crash down on every Parisian street, Barcelona, New York (unless u are wearing blinders – I may reach for a cigarette even and smoke my frustrations at it now) Del Ray, Boyton – they are coming for you as well. Dallas, the home of Patriot USA – they march in your streets. יד בכל ויד כל בו. Here, in the heart of Eretz Yisrael I instead light a candle. Its scent sooths the exasperation. More than any other obstruction to the madness is walking out to the garden, to the olive grove. This is a Land – the Land- the pupil of God’s eye – from here the entire world is watched. Difficult to describe the feel of this earth in your hands, to see the fruits of prophecy coming alive again after all these years. Yaakov has come home with his children. While settler violence was a key headline ironically the stores of Milan were being looted. In the name of that fake country- for the sake of Yishmael. Was October 7 2023 not a red glaring light? But no, persisting in the hot fabrication, a crock of duplicity was embedded into the narrative. Oh, how my hands enjoy these plump purple olives falling into my basket. The sound of birds chirping, a cloud whisks by. My pleasure is untold as my feet here know they are holding on to truth. No replacement theology can overcome this tidal wave. The vineyard up ahead waves in relief after the heavy grapes have been harvested. Do u need more than this to know Israel, a people banished yet not vanished as the other side persisted through time are home. We are finally home. Unrest follows Israel wherever they go in their Promised Land – that tiny speck, where flecks of light begin to brighten and fix. The days darken now but Israel rises. A person close of kin wrote to me “Everyone hates Israel.” That saddens me. How could we have done all of this if it wasn’t for the Almighty performing miracles right now. How could we have achieved all of this goodness if it weren’t for you, Friends of Itamar who chose to bless and not to curse. Yosef had a dream we will be reading about soon. He stood tall and erect. He believed the power of his dream came from Hashem and gave credit to Him, shared this with the world. This is how he identified – infinite blessings will override any challenge, even as we are blamed for atrocities we did not commit. We rise now. Dearest Friends of Itamar- we r building a playground in the memory of the Fogel Family who were brutally murdered in their home in 2011. The goal of the jihadist was to make this heartland Judenrein. Our goal is to see living prophecy and to witness birth and revival. As we approach the end of the fiscal year, we turn to u now and ask if u can ride this wave to safe shores. BLESSINGS and Shabbat Shalom! Xoxoxo Leah

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