Collections of Thoughts and Poetry

#photography #leannshamashphotography #wordshavewings #masechettaanit #taanit #fasts #griffinmuseumofphotography #atelier35 #dafyomi #talkingtalmud #hadran #womenlearningtalmud Why would anyone want to create a visual project about a volume of the Talmud? That is a question that I am asking myself a lot these days. For a while now I have wanted to set Jewish religious texts to image. Even when I participated in the Atelier (a portfolio building class for photographers) a f

#sometimesyouneedtobeseen #sometimesyoujustneedtobeseen #seen #heard #counted #makingadifference #talkthetalk #walkthewalk #reiyah #masechetchagigah #dafyomi #talkingtalmud #siyum #yardaenaosband #annemiller #wordshavewings #sedermoed The first section of Masechet Chagiga is about the Mitzvah called Re'iyah, or appearance. It informs the reader straightaway that there is no substitute for showing up on the three pilgrimage holidays. I have only included the very first words

#thoughtsondafyomi #dafyomi #dafyomistory I was fortunate to meet Reena through the Boston Hadran group. We recently began to meet once a week to discuss highlights of the Daf. This is Reena's story. I feel so fortunate to know her and that she would share her own powerful story on this page. Thank you, Reena. Thoughts on Daf Yomi - Reena Slovin This cycle of Daf Yomi began at a fortuitous time for me. In January 2020, while the rest of the world was beginning to deal with

#abbahilkia #masechettaanit #bringingtherain #rain #dafyomi #wordshavewings #talkingtalmud #taanit In Ta'anit 23b, there is the story of Abba Hilkia and his wife . The story is long and it is fascinating and I hope that you will take the time to read it from the source before you read this little story/poem. The Masechet of Ta'anit speaks of fasts. Why we fast, how we fast and when we fast. Fasting for rain to come is featured prominently in the Masechet. There is a portion w

#taanit #masechettaanit #dafyomi #apageaday #illustratingthedaf #wordshavewings What does a community do when the rains do not arrive when they should? What can a community do to change the natural course of weather? Do they look up at the sky and shake their fists? Perhaps they change their actions. Perhaps they blame, perhaps the pray. Do they cover themselves with sackcloth and apply ashes to their faces? As the earth continues to warm and weather patterns become unantici

#masechetroshhashannah #dafyomi #talkingtalmud #wordshavewings #talmudstudy #roshhashannah #calendars #mountaintops #waitingforthemoon #themoon #newmoon #witnessingthemoon The daf must go on. Day after day there is new learning. In this masechet of Rosh Hashannah there was much to learn, especially for a novice learner like me. In Rosh Hashannah we study about the different types of new years during the year (there are four!). There was material about intentionality of those

#punctuation #thecomma #periodsandcommas #semicolons #masechetBeitzah #beitzah #DafYomi #talkingtalmud #wordshavewings #rules #therabbisdiscuss #yomtov #customsofyomtov #cookinginancienttimes #talkingtalmud On Sunday we will mark the occasion of completing another masechet in the Daf Yomi cycle. This Masechet, Masechet Beitzah (egg) is about the laws of Yom Tov. Wiith my own very limited knowledge, this Masechet helps us understand perhaps why we do what we do not on Yom Tov

#theopentable #parshatbreisheet #opentable #study #invitationtostudy #talmud #dafyomi #daysofcreation #andGodcreated #betweensunsetandmoonrise Welcome to Sefer Breisheet, to the once again-ness of beginning of the study of torah. What a thrill! There are so many ideas waiting to be discovered, so many people to learn from. A year, please God, of unending potential. I was intrigued a number of months ago by a discussion that the rabbis had about what was created by God during

#masechetyoma #dafyomi #talkingtalmud #thegoat #azazel #yom #yomkippur #avodaservice #repentance #scarlet #whiteandscarlet #scarletthread #dafyomi Masechet Yoma was filled with details about the requirements for the Kohen Gadol, the order of the day, the sacrifice, the service. I don't always remember all that I learn from Yardaena Osband and Anne Gordon in the daily podcast of Talking Talmud, but I know how difficult it was to learn about the details of the service involving

#dafyomi #hadran #talkingtalmud #masechetshabbat #shabbat #learning #apageaday #gleanings #reviewofdafyomi #whatisthetakeaway This blog post is a difficult one to write. I had high hopes for this post. I thought that I would review the 157 pages that I have listened to over the past number of months and find something relevant and meaningful to say, which I always hope for any blog post. Instead I find myself perplexed and not sure what to write, which I don't think is a ba

#paintatreered #thepaintedtree #redtree #talkingtalmud #hadran #dafyomi #whenbadthingshappen #talkingtalmudpodcast #talkingtalmud #mercy #prayers #incantations #mothersanddaughters #sayingkaddish #wordshavewings In the Talmud, in Masechet Shabbat, daf 67A, the rabbis discuss a number of incantations to heal illnesses. They speak about monsters that inhabit the outhouse and what to say when you enter that scary place. They speak about fevers and healing wounds, about dog's hai

#masekhetbrakhot #brakhot #dafyomi #apageaday #whendowesayshema #blessingourfood #theshmonehesrei #drbanan #doreita #blessingsoverfood #whendowebless #birkhathamazon #mezuman #talkingtalmud #inmemoryofmom #mothersanddaughters #wordshavewings #sayingkaddish #kaddish Imagine a group of dedicated rabbis whose job it is to create a new way of life after a people is decimated and scattered away from their land and their way of life. Judaism, such an ancient religion, was built o

#dafyomi #berakhot #masechetberakhot #fallingbehind #blessings #blessingsoverbread #shema #shmonaesrei #18benedictions #blessingfood #whendoyousayshema #shemayisrael #talmud #dailytalmudstudy #apageaday #onedafaday #siyum #finishingberakhot #mothersanddaughters #sayingkaddish #kaddishformom #kaddishalternatives #irmag #rememberingyou I'm not sure how to even start with this blog page. Words Have Wings reflects a period of my life, as I say kaddish to honor my mother's life. T