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Oh, To Be a Dog on a Warm December Day
#warmdecemberdays #dogpark #happinessis #happy #dogsrunning #runningdogs Oh, to be a dog on a warm December day! To bound out of your...
Leann Shamash
Dec 16, 20211 min read
The Orchard Keeper
#theorchardkeeper #blessings #parshatvayechi #vayechi #jacob #joseph #wordshavewings #theorchard #whatareblessings In Parshat Vayechi, as...
Leann Shamash
Dec 14, 20213 min read
Abba Hilkia's Wife
#abbahilkia #masechettaanit #bringingtherain #rain #dafyomi #wordshavewings #talkingtalmud #taanit In Ta'anit 23b, there is the story of...
Leann Shamash
Dec 10, 20214 min read
Immigrant
#refugees #joseph #jacob #jacobandjoseph #vayigash #immigrant #homeland #newhome #adjustments #memory #wordshavewings #parshapoetry...
Leann Shamash
Dec 6, 20213 min read
Before: A Thought For the Last Day of Chanukah
#chanukah #chanukahcandles #eightnights #8nights #thepoweroflight #tevet #tevetandtheendofchanukah 1. Before the candles drip down and...
Leann Shamash
Dec 6, 20211 min read
When the Rain Doesn’t Fall
#taanit #masechettaanit #dafyomi #apageaday #illustratingthedaf #wordshavewings What does a community do when the rains do not arrive...
Leann Shamash
Dec 2, 20213 min read
Deborah
#deborah #genesis #Rebecca #jacobstory #midrash #nurseofrebecca When I read Parshat Vayeishev, as it recounted Jacob's return to meet his...
Leann Shamash
Nov 28, 20215 min read
Broken Dreams
#weallhavedreams #dreaming #snippetsofdreams #dreams #onceuponatime #parsha #parshatvayeisheiv #vayeishev #vayeisheiv #dreams...
Leann Shamash
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Daf Yomi Photography Project
#taanit #masechettaanit #dafyomiproject I want to introduce you to a project that I have been working on. As a student of Daf Yomi,...
Leann Shamash
Nov 19, 20211 min read
Gifts
#thegift #giftsandpresents #materialgoods #cowsandsheep #makingpeace #peacebetweenbrothers #gifts #siblings #twins #brokenrelationships...
Leann Shamash
Nov 16, 20212 min read
The Prayer of the Witnesses
#masechetroshhashannah #dafyomi #talkingtalmud #wordshavewings #talmudstudy #roshhashannah #calendars #mountaintops #waitingforthemoon...
Leann Shamash
Nov 10, 20214 min read
Who Knows?
#whoknows #thegatewaytoheaven #whoknew #heavenwashereandididnotknowit #parshatvayeitzei #yaakov #jacob #vayeitzei In Parshat Vayeitzei,...
Leann Shamash
Nov 9, 20212 min read
What Would You Give?
#whatwouldyougive #wordshavewings #parshattoldot #yaakovandesav #yaakov #jacobandesau #stew #redlentils #redlentilstew Parshat Toldot...
Leann Shamash
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Potatoes
#potatoes Hello Everyone, My apologies to you for sending out this post before it was finished. I unpublished it, not realizing that you...
Leann Shamash
Oct 31, 20213 min read
Eliezer
#Eliezer #parshatChayeiSarah #servants #immigrants #drivers #servant #maid In the long and detailed narrative of the search for a bride...
Leann Shamash
Oct 26, 20213 min read
The Squirrel and the Hawk
#thehawkandthesquirrel #wordshavewings #parshatvayera #hawk #squirrel #akeydatyitzhak #theakeydah #akedah #thesquirrelandthehawk There...
Leann Shamash
Oct 19, 20213 min read
Journeys
#journeys #journey #journeysalone #voyages #parshatlechlecha #avrahamandsarah #avramandsarai #getupandgo In Parshat Lech Lecha, Avram is...
Leann Shamash
Oct 12, 20213 min read
No Ark For the Extinct
#extinctions #noahsark #therainbow #wordshavewings #parshatnoach #thereisnoarkfortheextinct #NYTIMES #catrineinhorn #Newyorktimes What...
Leann Shamash
Oct 4, 20213 min read
And it Was Very Good
#simchattorah #chatantorah #kallatbreisheet #breisheet #kehillathisrael #wordshavewings #shehecheyanu #anditwasverygood Two days ago was...
Leann Shamash
Oct 1, 20213 min read
The Open Table
#theopentable #parshatbreisheet #opentable #study #invitationtostudy #talmud #dafyomi #daysofcreation #andGodcreated...
Leann Shamash
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Shake
#fromwheregoesthebreeze #thewind #sukkot #talkingtalmud #masechetsukkot In Talmud, Masechet Sukkah page 37b, there is a story about...
Leann Shamash
Sep 24, 20212 min read
Endings, Begin Again
#newbeginnings #parshatvothabracha #wordshavewings And so a full cycle comes to an end. This page, this blog has been a home to me...
Leann Shamash
Sep 20, 20212 min read
The Four Corners
#fourcorners #yomkippur #ashkenazictraditions #honeyfourcorners #diphoney Sitting next to my father at synagogue in Medford so many years...
Leann Shamash
Sep 17, 20213 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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