Leah’s Blog – Parashat Ki Tisa 05/03/202106/03/2021moshe Comment Ki Tissa 2021 Even before Babylon came crashing down unto Jerusalem, before her outer walls were even ruptured, King Yehoshiyahu took the broken [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Trumah 2021 18/02/202118/02/2021moshe Comment Terumah 2021 This blog was originally intended to share the experiences and pleasantries of a Jewish woman living in the heart of biblical [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Yitro 2021 04/02/202104/02/2021moshe Comment Bitya, I saw you at Sinai. It was more like, I saw your silhouette, white on black in a clap of thunder. You [...]
Leah’s Blog Tu B’Shvat 2021 26/01/202126/01/2021moshe Comment Leah’s Blog – Tu B’Shvat 2021 Our earliest neighbors here on Itamar were (and are) organic farmers. Back in those days the remoteness [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2021 22/01/202122/01/2021moshe Comment Leah’s Blog Parashat Bo 2021 My life is like a movie. It pulses down and up rapidly- like the monitor of a beating [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vaerah 2021 14/01/202114/01/2021moshe Comment Vaera – 2021 Time is speeding by and I can’t do things fast enough. It’s Thursday morning and I’m baking challah; The dough [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Vayechi 2021 01/01/202101/01/2021moshe Comment Vayechi 2021 The tractate of Baba Batrah in the Gemara tells us about a place in the forest that the doe goes to [...]
Leah’s Blog Dec 24th 2020 24/12/202024/12/2020moshe Comment Vayigash 2020 You know that part of the wedding when the photographer passes around the mike and poignant statements are videoed for life? [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Miketz 2020 17/12/202017/12/2020moshe 1 Miketz 2020 Socialism: You have two cows. You keep one and you give one to your neighbor. Capitalism: You have two cows. You [...]
Leah’s blog Dec 10th 2020 10/12/202010/12/2020moshe 3 Way before I met and knew Shakid, and our other Pashtun brothers, I thought I knew everything about Yosef HaTzaddik. Joseph’s tomb site [...]