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My Father's Story
Note: I have put the story in my father’s mouth, as I believe he would have told it, had he been able. We had a child, a son, and wanted...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 27
- 4 min
Back to school
"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Krugersdorp Jews
David Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...
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leon gork tour guide
- Sep 4, 2021
- 2 min
Happy New Year
The History of Prayer God is attentive to the prayers of the weak and downcast, especially on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, according to...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 22, 2021
- 1 min
Poem by Hanah Senesch
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. ,אַשְׁרֵיהַגַּפְרוּרשֶׁנִּשְׂרַףוְהִצִּיתלֶהָבוֹת Blessed is the flame that burns in the...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 11, 2021
- 1 min
The Festival of Tisha B'Av
The month of Av is the saddest month of the Jewish year.When the temple was destroyed on the 9th of Av.Which works out to Sunday 18th...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 17, 2021
- 2 min
Lag B'Omer 2021
Noga and Etti screamed with delight at the sight of the bonfires all over the city. The people were celebrating Lag B’Omer. Singing and...
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leon gork tour guide
- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min
Lag B'Omer
Noga and Etti screamed with delight at the sight of the bonfires all over the city. The people were celebrating Lag B’Omer. Singing and...
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leon gork tour guide
- Nov 21, 2020
- 5 min
Petah Tikvah Memorial Park
Bring me Cappuccino (hafuch in Hebrew). He lowered his mask, put the opening of the cover to his lips, no coffee came out.
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leon gork tour guide
- Oct 14, 2020
- 16 min
Manke Leaves Poswil
Manke, his student cap on his head, on his way to Heder, looked into the stable watching how Scholem struggled, pulling the animal this way
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 28, 2020
- 2 min
Tisha B'Av 5780
2000 years have passed since the destruction of the Jewish temple and they continue to lament But is this because of its loss.
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leon gork tour guide
- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
God and Man
In the Bible, which is a very wise book, there’s a strange story about God (in the form of a man) picking a fight with Jacob. Clearly God wa
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
- Mar 16, 2019
- 2 min
Purim
A certain rabbi of the Talmud, of 1500 years ago suggests an apparently strange way of celebrating the salvation of the Jews from the...
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- Jul 16, 2018
- 3 min
A Defense of Judaism.
I cannot allow criticism of my beliefs to go unnoticed. I believe in the correctness of the Jewish religion and Zionism and the value of...
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leon gork tour guide
- Sep 15, 2017
- 2 min
King David was here
According to archaeologists Yossi Garfinkel and Saar Ganor, a hill shown on maps as Khirbet Qeiyafa is a Biblical city called Shaarayim,...
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
- Jul 31, 2017
- 3 min
Tisha Be-Av and Israel independence day
Tisha Be-Av is a religious festival, celebrated every year by the Jews, to mourn the destruction of the temple, first by the Babylonians...
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
- Jul 26, 2017
- 5 min
The real Hezekiah of the tunnel
Not being an enthusiast of dark underground tunnels, usually I walk through a dry, well lit tunnel, actually older than Hezekiah's...
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leon gork tour guide
- Dec 19, 2016
- 3 min
Leon's No News-letter 241 Hanukkah: the anti-war festival.
I am often accused of changing my ideas about many things; politics, religion, world leaders, war etc. so I’m happy to note, on...
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leon gork tour guide
- Dec 2, 2016
- 4 min
Leon's No News-letter 240 A Journey on the Valley Railroad
The fires that raged last week only go to show that the Jewish People have created something of beauty and value that can be burned. A...
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