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#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
Inauguration
#inauguration #presidentbiden #vicepresidentharris #january2021 Inauguration insanity, farewell initiate the new indelible images instill...
Leann Shamash
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Nine Women
#8women #eightwomen #pandemic #acrossgenerations #sharingourlives For the past number of months I have been working on a project called...
Leann Shamash
Jan 20, 20215 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
The Playground
#playground #seesaw #slide #swings For Ellen, When we were small We would run to the neighborhood playground The hot top would form tar...
Leann Shamash
Jan 16, 20212 min read
On Shabbat Eve at Twilight
A short question and thought When listening to my Daf Yomi podcast early this morning, my teachers spoke briefly about a piece of Page...
Leann Shamash
Jan 15, 20212 min read
A Final Goodnight
#whattomorrowbrings #ayeargoesby #finalkaddish #wordshavewings #sayingkaddish The part of this blog where I write mostly about my mom is...
Leann Shamash
Jan 13, 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
It's Only a Place
#washingtondc #itsonlyaplace #democracy #january62021 #thecapitol January 6, 2021 It's only a place that sits on a hill, shines white in...
Leann Shamash
Jan 8, 20211 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
A Lesson From Trixie Noodle
#trixie #noodle #learningfromtrixie #travelswithtrixie #wordshavewings A Short Story Yesterday Trixie Noodle and I went for an early...
Leann Shamash
Jan 3, 20214 min read
And Just Like That (?!?), There Goes 2020
#andjustlikethat #highlightsof2020 #theyear2020 And there it goes..... The remainder of 2020 is inelegantly pouring down the drain;...
Leann Shamash
Dec 30, 20204 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
Leadership
#leadership #josephstory #pharaoh #hunger #crisis #governing I don't want the story of Joseph to pass by without first mentioning how...
Leann Shamash
Dec 25, 20203 min read
On the Other Side
#ontheotherside #sayingkaddish #listening #listeninginsteadofspeaking #prayer #morningminyan #thememoryroom #achange #atransition...
Leann Shamash
Dec 23, 20202 min read
Housekeeping
#ontheotherside #sayingkaddish #thememoryroom #housekeeping #wordshavewings An Update Housekeeping me? Nope, it is a strength that I do...
Leann Shamash
Dec 22, 20203 min read
May You See Miracles
#miraclesoccur #andiwokeupthismorning #grays #miracles #coatofmanycolors #rainbow #mayyouseemiracles #wordshavewings #jacobsstory...
Leann Shamash
Dec 21, 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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