Paula Leitner

This means: Happy and sweet New Year! Tonight, September 11th 2026, starts according to the rabbinical counting the Jewish New Year. Everywhere in the Jewish world you will hear this blessing and you will see pictures with pomegranates and apples and honey. From a friend in Israel I received a blessing sent out by a travel agency: May we have a good year, filled with new and wonderful horizons. I love that blessing and am wishing that also for all of us! If we look at the Bible though, you...

Reconciliation in the family of Abraham, was the title of the teaching I gave at the conference in Gagnières, in the south of France. The sons of Abraham were Ishmael and Isaac. Through Isaac the covenant promises of a people, a land, and a nation were established (Gen 17:19,21), becoming with Abraham and Jacob a patriarch to Israel. Ishmael was blessed to father twelve princes and to become a great nation (Gen 17:20), without partaking in the covenant that God made with Abraham (Gen...

Heart of courage was the theme on last week’s summer camp for teenagers in the Negev. This summer camp is part of the ministry Streams in the Desert, a Messianic ministry for the widows and orphans in the Negev. When I say widows and orphans, I mean it in a biblical sense: those families, where there is no father who provides and takes care. In our time most of them are single parent families, where the parents are divorced. As I have mentioned in earlier blogs, I have been connected to this...