As fascinating as always its almost time for out Staff Chanukah celebration. I have fond memories of being in your lovely home last year.
Enjoy your time in the Holy Land
Best wishes
Glenda
Enjoying your updates! Lisa, Your reports are so rich, so well-written...I love reading them and keeping up with your adventures. I really like the idea of using Jewish experience to help guide our thinking and problem solving. Call my if you ever want to discuss!
hey Lisa, I love reading your blog entries because they make me so excited for my trip! Not only your yummy food descriptions and fascinating depictions of the new experiences you are having and sites you are visiting. But also those "only in Israel" experiences like at the fruit stand. I bet he pointed out the pineapple almost in an accusatory way like How DARE you not buy pineapple? So classic and typically Israeli! Continue to enjoy enjoy enjoy!
Lisa--I love sharing Thanksgiving with new people! And the camaraderie amongst expats as they search for all the trimmings to bring a bit of home to the holiday abroad. I'm glad you were able to enjoy a proper Thanksgiving feast! Please do post more photos of the local markets, fruit stands, and bakeries--yum!
Gratitude Hello Lisa,
For my Thanksgiving gratitude list, I'm adding your blogs. Thank you so much for keeping in touch with your friends and sending us these wonderful accounts of your adventures. I could smell the challah baking in the old building!
Much love,
Marjory
Pardes Oh, I'm envious that you got to spend time at Pardes. I look forward to reading or hearing your observations about their beit midrash. I've never seen it in action during the school year - only in the summer with part time adult learners. I've been sold on their mission since I first learned about them in 1995.
Your blogs are terrific. Thanks so much for sharing!
Hi Lisa,
Finally got to catch up with your blogs! Makes me feel like im back doing your meditation classes with your wonderful insights and stories...oh, how I miss those days. You sound like you're really enjoying things and learning so much...it's so nice to hear. I'm still thinking/dreaming about coming to visit you in the spring if I could pull that off...lets chat again one of these days and catch up!
Miss u lots!
Love, Jessi
Ma asitah? Shalom,
I love reading your blog entries. Your studies and experiences are facinating, and it looks like you are maximizing the experience in every way.
This blog gets to the heart of the conflict. How do two people, who have become enemies, share the same small plot of land in relative harmony and peacefulness? Can we still believe in peaceful solutions? How can trust be rebuilt so that seams can mend the ravaged fabric? Hebron sounds like the symbol of what has been lost, and your neighborhood could be the symbol of what is possible.
I would love to hear more about this topic.
Politically, I know, I am becoming more "right-wing" in my thinking because of the undeniable history of the Arabs living in the former Palestine. Now, that is a political statement!
I read just about everything I can from various sources on the internet, but your first hand observations and comments are just as important to the understanding. Who burned the olive trees? I shudder to think who did it!
Thank you for sharing all of this with us!
nina
From San Diego Lisa: My husband, Alan, is sharing your blogs with me and I am truly enjoying your comments and photos. I can "hear" your enthusisam come through in your written words. Interesting to hear about contemplation rather than spirituality. I will ponder that. And I will ponder these photos of the beautiful produce selection at Mechaneh Yehudah.
B'Shalom, Nancy
I loved your questions Lisa, you are asking such vital questions for many of us. It's so wonderful that you have some time and breathing space for formulate some new ways of looking at our community. Much love, Marjory
Lisa--I LOVE your market pics! I am kind of obsessed w/food markets, and have a dream of one day making a book highlighting markets from all over the world. I think they're so informative about a culture--what types of foods are grown in the region, what people eat, what they value, and how people come together to socialize. It makes me want to come to Israel even more! Eat some fresh figs for me, please, and some of those sesame-breaded chicken strips! Mmmmm....
contemplating through the body Lisa, everything sounds fascinating. in terms of the contemplative practice piece, I am also thinking about that in terms of my own growth through my program I am doing to become an Executive Coach. And as part of that we read a fascinating book by a guy called Richard Strozzi, who has developed body practices and movement as a way of helping people learn more about themselves, as well as find contemplative space. He is also an aikido master, I believe. I don't know much about him but his book "holding the Center" is beautiful and it might be interesting to think specifically about contemplative practices that really use the body to its fullest. would love to talk to you about all this. Love, Clare
I found your blog! Lisa, that is so awesome that you were able to be at that conference. I wish I could have heard all of them in person. Your photos are great - It is making me hungry! Next time you see Danny, please give him a hug for me.
Hi Lisa! I wanted to send you happy birthday wishes and let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog! Healthy and happy new year and birthday wishes to you! Love, Barb
Poem Yehuda Amichai's poem makes me think of Abraham and Isaac. The boy and the ram. One saves the other.
I so very much love hearing and seeing everything you share. It's ALMOST as good as flying over to see you. I am just back from Chicago where I spoke to 600 people! Now I am off to Princeton. And then I go to the U of Edmonton in Canada. So I have some few gigs to keep me off the street and in potatoes. I think I would LOVE to build a Sukkot! And I would sleep in it. I think it's what my brother and I did with old blankets and empty boxes in the back yard--and we ate raisins in there and thought we just as snug as bugs in rug. Please tell me what the Sukkot symbolizes! Love you buckets! g
I enjoy I enjoy reading your blog about your impressions of your education and commentary on Israel. It makes me feel closer to you since l miss you.
Be well
mina
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I love Tmol Shilshom! Yay! Beautiful pictures, Lisa!