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OH GOLLY, WE FORGOT TO COUNT THE OMER!
Hello Everyone, First and foremost, I wish all of you a Moadim L'simcha , a happy semi-holiday, pressed between the first days of...
Leann Shamash
5 hours ago4 min read
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Passover Jumbles
#paassover #pesach #memories #seder #passoverseder #wordshavewings #family #passoversedermemories Hello Everyone, This post is a blessing...
Leann Shamash
6 days ago1 min read
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If We Could : A Poem for Masechet Sanhedrin
#sanhedrin #takingtalmud #dafyomi #masechetsanhedrin #mashiach #moshiach #rabbiakiva #rabbiakiba #sing #singeveryday Hello! This is the...
Leann Shamash
Apr 64 min read
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Elokai Neshama: Of Souls and Purity and a Young Man Driving in a Car
#vayikra #sefervayikra #leviticus #elokaineshama #breathe #breath #breathe #yehudahbecker #avishai #eloheyneshama #pure #mysoulispure...
Leann Shamash
Apr 13 min read
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The Piano Player
#parshatpekudei #sefershemot #shemot #piano #thepianoteacher #playingthepiano #praticepractice #practicemakesperfect...
Leann Shamash
Mar 263 min read
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Come Together
#vayakhel #parshatvaykhel #sefershemot #shmot #shemot #cometogether #thebeatles #abbeyroad #cometogether #beatlesmusic #1969 Parshat...
Leann Shamash
Mar 184 min read
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Broken Tablets and the Fine Art of Kintsugi
#parshatkitisa #kitisa #kintsugi #brokentablets #broken #anger #exodus #shemot This week in the eventful Parsha of Ki Tisa, Moshe goes up...
Leann Shamash
Mar 123 min read
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About Parshat Tetzaveh and Project Runway
#projectrunway #parshattetzaveh #Tetzaveh #fashion #clothing #design #clothingdesign #kohengadol #highpriest #clothes If the title of...
Leann Shamash
Mar 44 min read
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Two Golden Cherubs
#terumah #parshatterumah. #sefershemot #shemot #shmot #exodus #cherubs #goldencherubs Parshat Terumah begins the long and detailed plan...
Leann Shamash
Feb 253 min read
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God is in the Details: Parshat Mishpatim (A Gallery)
#parshatmishpatim #mishpatim #torahdoodles Parshat Mishpatim presents the newly liberated Hebrews laws to live by. We are transitioning...
Leann Shamash
Feb 183 min read
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One Snowy Morning
#yitro #parshatyitro #whilewalkingthedog #earlymorningwalks #law #aseretdibrot #tencommandments #moses #government #changes #breakingdown...
Leann Shamash
Feb 114 min read
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The Account of the Clownfish
Parshat Beshalach is the Parshah of miracles and music. Aside from the revelation at Sinai, it is one of the memorable and descriptive of...
Leann Shamash
Feb 53 min read
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Now I Remember
#passover #pesach #remember #rememberpassover #Zachor #parshatbo #bo Hello! Acknowledging that both Parshat Vaera and Parshat Bo are...
Leann Shamash
Jan 284 min read
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Oh Yes, We Have Witnessed a Plague
#Vaera #shmot #shemot #exodus #plagues #makot #pharaoh I have a nickname for this week’s parsha, which is Passover in January . In...
Leann Shamash
Jan 214 min read
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That Hand Upon Your Shoulder
Welcome to first parsha of Sefer Shemot. Within the first chapters, we are introduced to Moshe and a whole new cast of characters as our...
Leann Shamash
Jan 143 min read
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Seven Blessings
#blessings #parshatvayechi #parshatvayehi #sevenblessings #weddings #weddingblessings #breisheet #yaakov #blessingsofjacob A few weeks...
Leann Shamash
Jan 74 min read
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Seventy Souls
Hi! This is a day or two late since my server has not been working. We read Parshat Vayigash yesterday, but I hope it is not too late for...
Leann Shamash
Jan 52 min read
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The Match: A Tiny Chanukah Story
The match lives for but three seconds. It lies sleeping for months, maybe years, in a sealed and dry box, deep in a kitchen junk drawer,...
Leann Shamash
Dec 30, 20241 min read
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The 500th Post of Words Have Wings: Collected Dreams
#breisheet #parshatmiketz #chanukah #wordshavewings #parshapoetry #Joseph #dreams #listening #payattention Dear Readers, Welcome to the...
Leann Shamash
Dec 24, 20243 min read
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The Agunah: Parshat Vayeishev
#breisheet #parshatvayeishev #vayeishev Hello Readers, Welcome to the last part of Genesis where we explore the story of Joseph. Parshat...
Leann Shamash
Dec 18, 20244 min read
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On the Murmurations of Starlings
#parshatvayishlach Greetings, Events around us seem to pass so quickly these past months. As news stories tumble into one another,...
Leann Shamash
Dec 12, 20244 min read
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Tefillat Haderech
Many years ago, when I met my husband, he would begin any considerable drive in the car with the words, B'shem HaShem Na’aseh V’natzliach...
Leann Shamash
Dec 3, 20244 min read
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Dig That Well!
In Perek 26 of the Parsha Toldot, we veer from the classic tale of the birth of Esav and Yaakov and the drama associated with their...
Leann Shamash
Nov 26, 20243 min read
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Tzimtzum-צמצום
. It takes a colossus to squeeze himself small enough to allow another’s dreams to come true, in a world grown wild ...
Leann Shamash
Nov 20, 20243 min read
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Welcome to "Words Have Wings."
During the year following the death of a parent it is their children's responsibility to say the kaddish. This blog is a series of reflections while saying the kaddish for my late mother, Irma Gershkowitz.
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