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Leah’s Blog – Parashat Yitro 2025

Leah’s blog -Yitro February 2025

I don’t know if I ever told you this but – I’m hot blooded – to the point where my sweaters are still tucked on the bottom shelf of the closet; my preference for footwear is still a nice sandal, ok a fuzzy kind, and in ZARA I’m always looking for the T shirts. The temperatures plummet, yet I feel- “Is it hot in here- or am I crazy?’ I know I’ve said this but our story peaks now. This charade has gone on long enough and no I really do not want to talk about the weather. Prisoners serving life sentences are being released into my back yard. They were incarcerated for murdering innocent Jews. But the former President said “The show must go on”. The funneling of millions and millions of aid and money into our enemies and I do not differentiate between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority- they both pay for slay. The fancy suits of Doha have been paying for this deplored state, the lack of justice, as we groan and agonize. I for one, regret that most people do not even know how the USA and your tax paying dollars have likewise gone to annihilating, maiming and humiliating Jews in Israel. And they made a deal- for every hostage (coming out as skeletons) Israel must release hundreds of beasts.

I’m not only feeling highly heated- I’m thirsty. I’m dry with waiting.

I pull back the curtain of our home that faces the mountains of the Blessing and the Curse. Har Eval is slashed and damaged in a ploy by the PA to rupture our very monumental affinity to it. Illegal land works, even to the point of scraping the very rocks of the altar of Joshua- the place of our betrothal to Hashem in the Land. They are squatting on every empty parcel of land. The view for me is still laced with pain; our Rabbi was murdered up there. He bled to death after PA gunmen shot him – like Nazis do. There was an entire year I could not open my curtain. But now, twenty five years later, two helicopters are hovering above it. Something is beginning to change. Almost completely cut off from us- the tie was forever unbroken because we persisted to live and build at the base of this mountain. Against the odds. Never give up.

My dear mom of blessed memory always said “Better late than never.”

Did you know that the previous administration cancelled the Taylor force Act? Wicked devious plans for the Jews of Judea, yet the bulk of our fellow Jews abroad persisted in hating truth or remaining apathetic to it. They remained apathetic to the fact that we teach our children Perkay Avot (The ethics of the fathers) while the Arabs here teach how to hate Jews and methods to kill them. No- lah lah lah I do not want to talk about the weather. I want to talk about the lobotomy any and every Jew that nodded yes to Blinken and his henchmen.

Everything has reached a boiling pitch.

Remember that line in the vampire movie when Edward Cullen says to Bella “It’s because you believe the lie.” And even so- she grasps on to his cold hand and becomes embedded in vampire reptilian emotionally cold unloving unsympathetic stony hearted heartless zombie like life choice. My rabbi bled to death. The cold has affected too many.

Yitro is an influential man of power that has a reciprocal relationship with Am Yisrael. Unlike Pharoh who seeks to annihilate, throw babies into river, slash and enslave, he sees the Jewish people as the beacon of light and strives to cleave (as later Ruth does and others). His advice and stance is valuable and dear. He is the role model of a beloved friend and mentor. The mutual cooperation between Israel and Yitro through Moshe R is a collective story that remedies. For such a time as this, even now, so many years succeeding the atrocity of Oslo and the wicked stance of the governments that fanned its fire- PRESIDENT TRUMP has come to advise and fix. He has been able to see through the cold fog and witness the miracle of our return. Administer justice! Believe in Hashem! THANK YOU FOR COMING AT THIS APPOINTED TIME!

Shabbat shalom and blessings to all of our dear friends, LEAH