parsha | Elisheva Liss

Sep 266 min read

Personal words, cut from my heart

Sometimes it feels like a balancing act trying to determine how much to share personally in public writing and speaking spaces. We all...

Sep 253 min read

Does this confuse you too?

*This was originally written in 2021 Do you ever find yourself getting confused by contradictory wisdom? Like, sayings that are quoted...

Sep 252 min read

Holy Love Songs

In this week's Torah portion we read what is often considered the last formal commandment: "Now write for yourself, this song." What...

Sep 253 min read

"I want to go home"

*This was originally written in 2022 When my now adult daughter was a tiny, adorable preschooler ( which btw was about 10 minutes ago...

Sep 193 min read

Me and my big mouth

*This was originally published as a schmoozeletter email in 2022 Decades ago when I was in high school, we had a school-wide assembly...

Aug 93 min read

This weird thing got me mad

This was originally a schmoozeletter email, several years ago: Do you ever find that certain things get you mad, but it doesn't really...

Aug 24 min read

How a camping trip changed our lives

This post was originally written as a schmoozeletter email, several years ago. Have you ever gone camping? As a family, we did it a total...

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