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This You Can Do!
#yesyoucan #changehappens #change #justice #mishpatim #parsha #poetry #wordshavewings #thebelloffreedom #ringthebelloffreedom Parshat...
Leann Shamash
Feb 8, 20213 min read
Help Me
#helpme #mothers #pamdemic תִּבֹּ֔ל גַּם־אַתָּ֕ה גַּם־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִמָּ֑ךְ כִּֽי־כָבֵ֤ד מִמְּךָ֙ הַדָּבָ֔ר לֹא־תוּכַ֥ל...
Leann Shamash
Feb 7, 20212 min read
Every Day is an Opportunity to Celebrate
#shallwedance #dancing #joy #release #stress #dance I've been thinking lately, now that we are almost a year into our quarantine, about...
Leann Shamash
Feb 4, 20214 min read
As God's Mountain Trembled
#MtSinai #tencommandments #sinai #andthemountaintrembled #witnessatsinai #revelation Parshat Yitro documents the giving of the ten...
Leann Shamash
Feb 1, 20213 min read
What We Remember
#holocaustremembranceday #76yearsliberation #aushwitz #whatwechoosetoremember #rememberingandforgetting Yesterday was Holocaust...
Leann Shamash
Jan 28, 20214 min read
What's Your Manna?
#manna #mannafromtheheavens #parshatbeshalach #imagine #wordshavewings In Parshat B'Shalach there is much talk of food and water. The...
Leann Shamash
Jan 26, 20212 min read
Crossing the Sea
#bshalach #parsha #poetry #wordshavewings #thesongofthesea #crossingthesea #parshapoetry #poetry #commentary This coming Shabbat we...
Leann Shamash
Jan 25, 20213 min read
We Wear the Memory of Freedom
#wewearthememory #memoriesoffreedom #tefillin #parsha #parshatBo #bo #wordshavewings #wecarrytheweight #freedom #MLKday...
Leann Shamash
Jan 18, 20212 min read
You Have a Voice
#avoice #voice #parsha #moses #frespeech #watchyourwords #expressyourself #thevoice #challenges #bewise #youhaveavoice #parshatVaeira...
Leann Shamash
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Why Me?
#whome #leadership #noconfidence #ordinary #excuses #leadersandfollowers #moses #parsha #parshatshemot #shemot #moses #moshe...
Leann Shamash
Jan 5, 20212 min read
Anywhere, Anytime
#anywhere #anytime #cog #systems #failingsystems #parsha #parshatshemot #broken #workhard #hardwork #erosion #thingschange #usvsthem...
Leann Shamash
Jan 4, 20213 min read
And He Lived -Parshat Va'Yechi
#andheshalllive #abraham #isaac #jacob #breisheet #vayechi #wordshavewings #thememoryroom #lessonsforliving #honesty #cooperation...
Leann Shamash
Dec 29, 20202 min read
May You See Miracles
#miraclesoccur #andiwokeupthismorning #grays #miracles #coatofmanycolors #rainbow #mayyouseemiracles #wordshavewings #jacobsstory...
Leann Shamash
Dec 21, 20203 min read
The Symphony
#hunger #josephstory #egypt #symphony #refugees #rice #corn #wheat #dwindlingsupplies #tempo #amounts #guarding One of the themes of...
Leann Shamash
Dec 15, 20202 min read
Waiting
#goodintentions #waiting #takinglifeinyourownhands #getup #assertyourself The story of Tamar in Parshat VaYesheiv, is a complex study of...
Leann Shamash
Dec 14, 20203 min read
Chance Encounters
#tothepersoninthefield #chanceencounters #joseph #angels #dreamers #wandering #daydreamers #inthefield #holocaust #hidden #partisangroup...
Leann Shamash
Dec 8, 20203 min read
Dancing with an Angel
#wrestlingwithangels #dancingwithangels #music #musicinmyears #parsha #vayishlach #danceatmidnight #danceatdawn #danceofthemoon #jacob...
Leann Shamash
Dec 4, 20202 min read
A Prayer
#jacob #esau #myprayer #prayer #wordshavewings #parshatvayishlach #birthright #areyouthere #doesgodhearourprayers In this poem, the first...
Leann Shamash
Nov 30, 20203 min read
Leah
#iamnumber2 #leah #seemme #thosewhosee #secondbest #whatmakesusbest #thebestofus #leahandrachel #jacobandrachel #jacobandleah #weakeyes...
Leann Shamash
Nov 27, 20202 min read
Post 101-Gratitude
#post101 #wordshavewings #sayingkaddish #covid19 #pandemic #whathappened #adiary #awaytoremember #thememoryroom #zoomroom Here we are at...
Leann Shamash
Nov 26, 20203 min read
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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