Leann Shamash
Underground Bomb Shelters, Atlantic City and the Draft
#20-90 #90s #beautyofaging #wisdomofage #covid19 #coronavirus #lookbackwards #lookingforward #thebenefitofhistory #reflections...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 21, 2020
- 1 min
Social Distancing: A Covid-19 Gallery
#socialdistancing #covid19 #wordshavewings #apart #distance #separation #hamavdil #differentiate #connected #weareone #weareseparate...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min
The Toys Miss You- A Covid-19 Poem for our Grandkids
#family #covid19 #grandmothers #grandfathers #grandmashouse #bubby #missyou #wordshavewings #toys #hideandgoseek #patience #thingskidsdo...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 18, 2020
- 2 min
Clean Hands- a Poem
#cleanhands #washyourhands #prayer #washing #washinghands #covid19 The song of the day speaks about Who shall ascend into the mountain of...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
Welcome to Overland Park, Kansas-I made a minyan!
#overlandparkkansas #overlandpark #kansas #sayingkaddish #irmag #prayer #covid19 #shacharit #travelingwithoutmoving #internettravels...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
Chicago?!?
#kaddish #sayingkaddish #covid19 #lifeathetimeofthevirus #prayer #Chicago #synagogue #davening #shacharit #sayingkaddish ...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 15, 2020
- 3 min
Psalm 24: The Psalm for Sundays: Part 1
#washyourhands #cleanhands #psalm24 #psalms #tehillim #sayingkaddish #wordshavewings #cleanhandscleanheart #sayingkaddish #dailypsalms...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 13, 2020
- 3 min
Kaddish Cancelled
#minyan #shabbat #socialdistancing #onlineservices #kaddish #wordshavewings #cancelled Who would have thought a few weeks ago when I...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
To you, ma, on this Sh'loshim
This post is a little late. On the Shloshim I'd like to remember you, the way that you were. It's the little things about us that make...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 11, 2020
- 2 min
A Funny Thing Happened When We Got Down to Nine
#ten, #kaddish, #sayingkaddish, #wordshavewings, #minyan, #nine, #onepersonlefttheroom #countingwomen #dowomencount #idocount A funny...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
Spices, Roots, Trees and Kaddish D'Rabanan
There are a number of kaddishes at the conclusion of the service. I'm focusing in on one today. Lots to learn from it. Let's start by...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Shape of Silence
#silence #poetry #kaddish #sayingkaddish #rememberingmom #amida #morningprayer #sephardicjews #irmag #irma #wordshavewings I usually...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
It's All About The Excuses
Mom is gone and saying kaddish looms (maybe that is not the right word...it sounds so negative) for the year to come. Since dad passed...
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Leann Shamash
- Feb 29, 2020
- 2 min
Words have Wings
"Children are an extension of their parents and a profound connection always exists between them, even after death. Because of this...
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Leann Shamash
- Feb 29, 2020
- 1 min
Three Orphans Sitting on a Bench-February 3, 2020
I am 63 Barry is 62 Paul is 59. We sit on a bench following morning minyan. Heads bowed. Hands on our laps We are orphans now. We have...
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Leann Shamash
- Feb 27, 2020
- 1 min
February 2, 2020- Jasmine
Inhale the scent of jasmine. I am a plant person. My husband and I collect plants like some people collect hats or jewelry or shoes....
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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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