Leah’s Blog – Ki Tavo September 2024
Ki Tavo – TIME TO GO HOME -September 2024 Perhaps it was a ringing in the sky that woke me. Sometimes I get insomnia – there are good reasons, not so much for fear and worry as
Leah’s Blog – Ki Tetzeh 2024
Ki Tetzeh September 2024 Leahs blog There is a junction, a one minute’s drive from ours into Itamar that soldiers guard and check Awarta (home of the Fogel murderers) veh
Leah’s Blog – Parshat Reeh – August 2024
Leah’s Blog – Parshat Reeh – August 2024 In the time of the strengthening ritual of sweeping the early autumn leaves and what that means to me, we celebrat
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Devarim
Leah’s Blog – Devarim The mulberry leaves meet the maple under the protective nighttime sky, green against black. Here in our garden tucked under a ledge of rock, the a
Leah’s Blog – Parashat Matot- Masey
Matot- Masey- The War against the enemy The quiver of a hamsin wind blows through the olive trees on either side of the road heading east and home. The sun makes the dust all aroun
Leah’s Blog – Pinchas 2024
Pinchas 2024 As soon as the sun sets and the sky between the mountains of the Blessing and the Curse turns a bright orange in the July sky, we reach Mount Kabir on the edge of the
Leah’s Blog Parashat Chukat 2024
Chukat – July 2024- Leah’s Blog The tangy scent of salt comes up from the lowest place on earth. Deep down below the lowest cliffs that face the Dead Sea lies a few places
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 Lec
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 Moa
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, wonder