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Leann Shamash

Apr 21, 2022
4 min

Counting the Omer

#countingtheomer #counting #omer #beingmindful #pesach #shavuot #connections Please forgive that I am sending two posts in 24 hours....This is a procrastination post, not done or sent because I was preparing for the holiday and then the holiday, well, it came! I love counting the Omer....I am not sure why! Is it the challenge of not forgetting? Is it the elaborate system of timers that I try to put on Alexa and my phone (and my husband's phone?). Is it because once you fall

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Leann Shamash

Apr 27, 2021
1 min

Parsha Poetry

Connections

#connections #shavuot #countingtheomer #energy #kabalah #sefirot #cosmos #thegarden #theriver #athread #dancingtogether This is a poem about the sefirot, about connections, the universe we see and the universe we do not see. It is about the heavens opening on Shavuot and Torah. I am not sure about mysticism and about Kabalah....I know enough about the subject to know that I know nothing. I do know about connections, though, and how important they are. Some we see and some

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Leann Shamash

Apr 2, 2021
4 min

Parsha Poetry

You Count

#youcount #counting #minyan #countingtheomer #keepingtrack #wordshavewings #passover #shavuot Yesterday my niece moved to New York City. A little more than a year ago she moved back home during her senior year at college. She was not alone in doing this. Thousands and thousands of young people found themselves back home a year ago. Her sister, a year ahead of her who worked in lived in NYC, also moved back to their childhood home. My brother and his wife, who had one chil

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Leann Shamash

Apr 13, 2020
5 min

The Holy Counting Exercise

##countingtheomer #whatdoyouliketocount #theomer #49days #thelinkbetween #thebridgebetweenholidays #shavuot #pesach #wecounteachevening #thecountcounts #sefira #sefirathaomer #barleyandwheat #wheatandbarley #plantingandharvesting #earlyJudaism #agriculturaljudaism #sadnessduringtheomer #theomerthingsnottodo #wecountintheevenings #donotforget Jews are counters. We count the days of the week, the number of hours between eating meat and dairy the numbers of hours in a fast

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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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