Hey everyone,

Well, I couldn’t do it – 30 posts in 30 days. I tried, and then on Monday night in the rain, my trunk crashed down on my head and while it didn’t knock me “out”, when I came home, I wasn’t in any mood to write that night.

Last night I hosted the first of a new class taught by my Rebbitzen and then one of my friends stayed later and by that time, my head was still hurting so I didn’t write.

So, it will have to be 28 posts in 30 days….I am back today.

I am still working on my office purge and came across a folded up piece of paper in my piles of “stuff”. When I opened it, it brought a smile to my face.

On the last night in Israel we had a banquet at this restaurant called Gavna. It is a restaurant in the area of “the Gush” if you are Israeli, you may know of the area. It is an open air restaurant with amazing views. It is a dairy restaurant and the tables were filled with all kinds of salads, dips, and so much more. There was also this amazingly good lemonade, which of course the bees just loved to feast on. I guess that is what you get from an open air restaurant in the middle of the nowhere.

During the banquet Lori Palatnik, Ken Spiro and a few others had a chance to thank us for our participation on the JWRP TAG 12 trip, and then each city had a chance to thank Lori, their city leaders and each other for the most amazing 10 days that you can imagine.

Some of the cities sang songs and made up dances (the chicas from Mexico were good at the singing and dancing). One of the ladies in our group started putting a poem together and we all helped put it together.

Our group thank our Rebbitzen’s with our own personal thank you, and then we had a chance to thank Lori and her team:

There once was a woman named Lori,
Who dreamed to spread the word in its glory.
A chance to explain the Torah,
To us she was the Morah (Teacher).
In all, an amazing story.

To take women from all over,
To Israel to stay over.
For us all to learn and explore,
Igniting a desire to learn more.

An experience beyond description,
Even with illness, we got a perscription.
The Jewish journey she wants to show,
to help us transform and grow.

With learning such a pleasure,
We are all taking this home to treasure.
To JWRP and Lori, thank you.
For allowing TORONTO to be part of the story.

There was this amazing woman on our trip named Suzie, and here is her story at Gavna: