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Wanderings
#wanderings #wandering #capecod #painescreek #brewster #walkingeveryday #beautifulcapecod #thinking #considering #exploring...
Leann Shamash
Jun 28, 20203 min read
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What We Have in Common
#whatwehaveincommon #differences #commonalities #politicaldifferences #incommon #supporters #commonalities #findingcommonground...
Leann Shamash
Jun 25, 20202 min read
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Painting a Tree Red
#paintatreered #thepaintedtree #redtree #talkingtalmud #hadran #dafyomi #whenbadthingshappen #talkingtalmudpodcast #talkingtalmud #mercy...
Leann Shamash
Jun 19, 20204 min read
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A Million Stories
#story #abillionstories #yourstory #tellyourstory #covid19 #coronavirus #everyonehasastorytotell #iliveinahouse #apartments #homes...
Leann Shamash
Jun 11, 20201 min read
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A Tale of Two Communities: the Gomel Blessing
#gomel #covid19 #sayingkaddish #kaddish #wordshavewings #mothersanddaughters #gomelblessing #reinventing #followinganillness #creativity...
Leann Shamash
Jun 5, 20205 min read
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YIZKOR: WE ARE BUT A SUM OF OUR PARTS
#yizkor #sumofourparts #weareasumofourparts #remember #zachor #weremember #placesinourlives #piecesofourlives #memories...
Leann Shamash
Jun 1, 20202 min read
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When I Play Alone
#Covid19 #whenIplayalone #apoemforgrandchildren #childrenstory #shortstory #playingalone #lookingoutmywindow #sayingkaddish...
Leann Shamash
May 28, 20203 min read
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Bring out the Tailgate Party: It's Rosh Chodesh
#roshchodesh #sivan #roshchodeshsivan #holidays #halfholidays #celebrations #halfcelebrations #wayswecelebrate #behappy #jewishholidays...
Leann Shamash
May 26, 20204 min read
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Modeh Ani L'fanecha
#modeh #modehani #modehanilfanecha #iwakeup #iwakeupinthemorning #whoreturnsmybreath #deepbreath #breathdeeply #covid19...
Leann Shamash
May 22, 20205 min read
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A Rooster Crowed on Page 7: Day is Breaking!
#lions #horses #eagles As I attended Zoom services this morning I was settling into my less than enthusiastic reading of the prayers when...
Leann Shamash
May 17, 20203 min read
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Today I Bought a Green Plant
#greenplant #traderjoes #shabbatshalom #wordshavewings #covid19 #buyplants #lifeisbeautiful #breath #fieryredcarriages #shopping...
Leann Shamash
May 15, 20202 min read
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things we count during covid-19
#oneis #twois #countone #counttwo #covid19 #livingduringcorona #sayingkaddish #mothersanddaughters #quarantine #counting #6feetapart...
Leann Shamash
May 12, 20202 min read
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Daniel and Nachshon: Courage
#courage #bravery #covid19 #hospitalworkers #daniel #danielyouarebrave #whatiscourage #thecowardlylion #firstresponders #soldiers...
Leann Shamash
May 7, 20205 min read
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Can a Blind Person Say a Blessing Upon Witnessing a Miracle? A Top Ten List of Masekhet Berakhot
#masekhetbrakhot #brakhot #dafyomi #apageaday #whendowesayshema #blessingourfood #theshmonehesrei #drbanan #doreita #blessingsoverfood...
Leann Shamash
May 3, 20204 min read
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The Maze of Daf Yomi
#dafyomi #berakhot #masechetberakhot #fallingbehind #blessings #blessingsoverbread #shema #shmonaesrei #18benedictions #blessingfood...
Leann Shamash
Apr 30, 20204 min read
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Gratitude
#gratitude #tehillim #iamgrateful #whyamigrateful #mindfulness #whyyouaregrateful #aware #goodhealth #family #sunrise #blessings...
Leann Shamash
Apr 29, 20205 min read
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A Final Bath- Thank You
#schwartzrounds #rememberingmom #irmag #hebrewseniorlife #thefalls #memorycare #healthcareworkers #healthcare #cnas...
Leann Shamash
Apr 26, 20204 min read
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Elijah's Visit
#elijahtheprophet #eliyahuhanavi #passoverseder #passovervisit #cupofwine #elijahscup #cupofelijah #childrenssstories...
Leann Shamash
Apr 23, 20205 min read
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Before the End of Nisan
#passover #seder #passoverseder #covid19 #coronavirus #innovations #innovate #newmodels #crisisbreedscreativity #wordshavewings...
Leann Shamash
Apr 21, 20209 min read
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Small Miracles Do Occur-Yom HaShoah
#yomhashoah #reunions #reconnected #shoah #bindermichel #linzaustria #holocaustsurvivors #dpcamp #postww2 #survival #theysurvived...
Leann Shamash
Apr 20, 20204 min read
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The Garden of Eden Imagined
#Gardenofeden #ganeden #thegarden #whereisyourgarden #describeyourgardenofeden #whereisthegarden #fruittrees #flowers #sayingfarewell...
Leann Shamash
Apr 17, 20204 min read
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The Dance of Prayer (part one)
#prayer #openyourhands #openyourheart #thedanceofprayer #sayingkaddish #kaddish #africandance #sufidance #hassidicdance...
Leann Shamash
Apr 14, 20202 min read
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The Holy Counting Exercise
##countingtheomer #whatdoyouliketocount #theomer #49days #thelinkbetween #thebridgebetweenholidays #shavuot #pesach #wecounteachevening...
Leann Shamash
Apr 13, 20205 min read
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I Miss Your Chin
#eyes #nose #mouths #mouth #coveringup #wearingamask #wearingmasks #wordshavewings #prayer #sayingkaddish #covid19...
Leann Shamash
Apr 12, 20201 min read
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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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