Leah’s Blog

Parshat Noach    2020 Noah’s ark got me thinking about the last time I was on a boat. It was last summer, a hot [...]

Bereishit   2020  Back to the Garden A young boy in Itamar has set out to prepare the organic garden for autumn. Intuitively, he [...]

Nitzavim   September 11, 2020 As Israel is about to enter a new lockdown I was just thinking how liberating in certain ways it [...]

Ki Tavo   September 2 2020 A special cousin of mine gathered the family to third and fourth cousins for a synchronized zoom meeting [...]

Shoftim   2020 Elul is here, I have no idea how that happened. The weather has turned autumn-like before its time. I am raking [...]

Parshat Re-eh   August 2020 My maternal grandmother of blessed memory was a firestorm! She had a strong German accent, orange eyes and a [...]

The Nine Days     July 21 2020 As a little girl, I liked to leave the familiar reality of being immersed in the present [...]

Balak 2020 Our holy sages have told us long ago that Parshat Balak, more than any other parsha in the entire Torah hints [...]

The world revolves on an even axis of mercy and judgment. These are the two legs that support the world. When someone has [...]