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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Shlach 2024
Leah’s Blog – June 2024 -Shlach – DARE TO DO IT Return to Zion always carries the theme of leaving the realm of familiar and entering the unknown. It starts with Lech Lecha as Avraham trekked along with his wife to Eretz Yisrael, the Promised Land, for he is promised that Land for the nation…
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Leah’s Blog – Shavuot – 2024
Shavuot – 2024 The tawny rolling fields of wheat and barley that surround Bethlehem ripple in the June breeze. They slope downwards, east, to the Jordan River where they face Moav, the place of the journey of Rut and Naomi, the inseparable pair. Climbing up and into Israel, they ascended into this territory of Judah;…
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Leah’s Blog – Jerusalem Day 2024
Jerusalem Day – 2024 Walking through the quaint shaded alleyways of Yemin Moshe this past Shabbat had me, on reaching the famous windmill facing the walls of the Old City, wondering if the passuk “our Sanctuary and place of glory in which our forefathers praised You has become a conflagration of fire, its treasures in…
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Leah’s Blog – Pesach Sheni 2024
Leah’s Blog – Pesach Sheini – A second chance -2024 Pesach Sheini is the only time you can actually accomplish the mitzvah of a time bound holiday at a later date. Pesach is one of three holidays that we travel to Jerusalem in order to bring offerings in the Temple, remembering the exodus from subjugation…
