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How We Teach
#Passover #covid19 #coronavirus #sederplate #symbols #teaching #howtoteach #repetition #teachingandlearning #hagaddah #Pesach...
Leann Shamash
Apr 7, 20203 min read
A Collection of Miracles: Dayeinu (It Would Have Been Enough For Us)
#miracles #covid19 #dayeinu #wemakemiracles #gratitude #acollectionofmiracles #wordshavewings #sayingkaddish #irmag #mothersanddaughters...
Leann Shamash
Apr 6, 20202 min read
The Dissonant Music of Prayer
#prayer #covid19 #chazzan #cantor #davening #shaliachtzibbur #leadingthecongregation #whatittakes #beautifulvoice #distortions ...
Leann Shamash
Apr 5, 20203 min read
As March Turns Toward April: A Prayer
#march #april #prayer #bakashah #plead #asmarchturnstowardapril #2020 #outlikealamb #themonthofmarch #covid19 #poetry...
Leann Shamash
Mar 31, 20202 min read
A Poem For Freedom: Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Nisan Month of awakening Of red tulips Yellow forsythia Blue skies Grays turn to greens Nisan Month of new life Plants flex their muscles...
Leann Shamash
Mar 27, 20201 min read
The Value of Time- "The Early Bird Catches the Worm"
#time #sevenoclock #eightoclock #wakeup #timetowakeup #covid #socialdistancing #morningprayer #sayingkaddish #kaddish #irmag...
Leann Shamash
Mar 26, 20203 min read
Covid-19 and the Blizzard of 78'
#blizzardof78 #westmedford #umassamherst #1978 #covid19 #socialdistance #lookaround #shovelout #walk #keepyourdistance #exercise ...
Leann Shamash
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Underground Bomb Shelters, Atlantic City and the Draft
#20-90 #90s #beautyofaging #wisdomofage #covid19 #coronavirus #lookbackwards #lookingforward #thebenefitofhistory #reflections...
Leann Shamash
Mar 22, 20203 min read
Social Distancing: A Covid-19 Gallery
#socialdistancing #covid19 #wordshavewings #apart #distance #separation #hamavdil #differentiate #connected #weareone #weareseparate...
Leann Shamash
Mar 21, 20201 min read
The Toys Miss You- A Covid-19 Poem for our Grandkids
#family #covid19 #grandmothers #grandfathers #grandmashouse #bubby #missyou #wordshavewings #toys #hideandgoseek #patience #thingskidsdo...
Leann Shamash
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Clean Hands- a Poem
#cleanhands #washyourhands #prayer #washing #washinghands #covid19 The song of the day speaks about Who shall ascend into the mountain of...
Leann Shamash
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Welcome to Overland Park, Kansas-I made a minyan!
#overlandparkkansas #overlandpark #kansas #sayingkaddish #irmag #prayer #covid19 #shacharit #travelingwithoutmoving #internettravels...
Leann Shamash
Mar 18, 20203 min read
Chicago?!?
#kaddish #sayingkaddish #covid19 #lifeathetimeofthevirus #prayer #Chicago #synagogue #davening #shacharit #sayingkaddish ...
Leann Shamash
Mar 16, 20201 min read
Psalm 24: The Psalm for Sundays: Part 1
#washyourhands #cleanhands #psalm24 #psalms #tehillim #sayingkaddish #wordshavewings #cleanhandscleanheart #sayingkaddish #dailypsalms...
Leann Shamash
Mar 15, 20203 min read
Kaddish Cancelled
#minyan #shabbat #socialdistancing #onlineservices #kaddish #wordshavewings #cancelled Who would have thought a few weeks ago when I...
Leann Shamash
Mar 13, 20203 min read
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...
Leann Shamash
Mar 11, 20201 min read
A Funny Thing Happened When We Got Down to Nine
#ten, #kaddish, #sayingkaddish, #wordshavewings, #minyan, #nine, #onepersonlefttheroom #countingwomen #dowomencount #idocount A funny...
Leann Shamash
Mar 11, 20202 min read
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...
Leann Shamash
Mar 8, 20202 min read
The Shape of Silence
#silence #poetry #kaddish #sayingkaddish #rememberingmom #amida #morningprayer #sephardicjews #irmag #irma #wordshavewings I usually...
Leann Shamash
Mar 6, 20201 min read
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...
Leann Shamash
Mar 4, 20203 min read
Words have Wings
"Children are an extension of their parents and a profound connection always exists between them, even after death. Because of this...
Leann Shamash
Mar 1, 20202 min read
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...
Leann Shamash
Feb 29, 20201 min read
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....
Leann Shamash
Feb 27, 20201 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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