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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Bamidbar 2025
Bamidbar – May 2025 – Leah’s Blog
Over the hill and not so far away there is a place, one of a kind, that on a clear day you are sure to see the three seas of Israel. Remember the scene in the Lion King when Simba is placed on the ledge? That describes it. At first, the Ministry of Tourism put a misspelling on the sign. It said “Three sees”. You know what? I’m thinking there is more to that than meets the eye now. So, Rico and Yolanda our incredible friends had 26 people with them here with us on the three seas lookout. The change in the topography is striking as everything east of the three seas is a stark tan, the Sfahr haShomron- a small desert decline into the Jordan Valley. The look on Rico’s face said it all. An emerald green now creeps down the mountainside, the grapevines of Jeremiah into the sandy landscape. Exuberance is an understatement of what you feel here, vibrancy in the electric pulse of this place. A guy with a winning smile turns to me and says, ” The grapes are huge but we are not afraid of the giants!”. I, in turn answered him with “This is why I live here.”
FRIENDS WE ARE LIVING MIRACLES!
PARSHAT BAMIDBAR is all about the journey of setting up the Tabernacle and taking it apart. The odyssey of Am Yisrael building and dismantling 42 times in the dessert, wandering through exile, waiting to get to the other side. Through the years of our exile we camped in a place, sometimes longer periods of time, sometimes shorter- Now, after two thousand years- too- we are home. As we read the bible we learn it took many years until we built a permanent home for Hashem even in this Land. Copy paste- this is the pattern- we have been on this journey as were broken and then rebuilt-ISRAEL IS COMING OUT OF THE GREATEST TRAVESTY INFLICTED ON IT- At times, even collaborating with it! Now comes the time to salute every man woman and child that braved a fiercely trying time when the enemy came to stone our cars, shoot at us and Israel capitulated in the greatest injustice of throwing us under the bus even the deep state here in Israel targeted us, framing us, in acts of baseless hatred pointed at us for just wanting to settle our ancestral heartland. Faith has answered us – now a shift in time, the vibrancy of truth and prophecy being fulfilled happens! “You will rise. You will have mercy on Zion for there is a time to favor it, for the appointed season has arrived.” אתה תקום תרחם ציון כי עת לחננה כי בה מועד
IT IS COMING BACK TO LIFE!
Can these bones live?
A historic decision was made yesterday by our government in which 22 new communities will be set up along this very view- in the Jordan Valley on our eastern border and throughout Judea Samaria, including a return to some of the places we evicted in the atrocity of the Oslo accords. Soon the view will be peppered with greenhouses and more farms, more houses- signaling an incredible boost for restoration.
It all boils down to how you see it.
This is the time before Shavuot- the time King David reigns. Malchut is at the doorstep.
Shabbat Shalom to all of our dear friends and Chag Sameyach xoxoxooxox BLESSINGS! Leah
