Shoshana's Garden

This may be random thoughts, but I feel the need to write tonight. I've cried a lot lately. The war that continues in Ukraine. The war...

Why I Celebrate Chanukah Within what is called the “Hebrew Roots” Movement there are many differing opinions on the two “non-Levitical”...

A month... It has been a month since Israel was attacked. The blog I wrote was read the most of any I have ever written. Nothing is close...

This is not going to sit well with some people, but I feel it must be written. I write from my heart. I pray my heart is in the right...

I missed writing about Sukkot. Life last weekend, when it started, was crazy busy. Still trying to figure out how to write when there is...

Tonight at sundown Yom Kippur begins. This day is the highest, most holy day of the Jewish Holiday. Leviticus 16:29-31 “It is to be a...

Yesterday was hard. No other word can describe trying to figure out how to be three places at once. It is impossible. I said, "God, show...

It has been awhile since I have written anything. I'm still processing a lot that has happened. I still wish that life had not ended up...

Friday night I helped host a Shabbat dinner. My son organized it with four friends. Last month we hosted a Shabbat dinner for a family...

I was talking with someone the other day and in the course of the conversation the comment was made by her, "That's okay. I'm not easily...