In the 90s I met Leah Miriam A"H and the adoration and respect was instantaneous. I was a young, lost girl and I'd never met anyone with the same name as me== that was exciting enough! Then her spiritual authenticity and vibrancy? I wanted THIS! I was blessed to have stayed by her family and to immerse myself in frumkeit. I have so many wonderful memories from sitting in the Dandenong Ranges painting pictures, laughing, learning, cooking, davening together in 770. Most of all she gave me the gift of feeling loved and a love of being Jewish. I cannot articulate in mere words how special and profound her influence remains decades later.