Moses is an interesting character is in the pantheon of religious leaders. He is such a major personage, considered the founder of Judaism and yet there are no extra-biblical accounts of his life and his deeds. He only exists in… Read More ›
Miriam
Chukat: Miriam, Feminists, and the Power of Water, by Ivy Helman.
This week’s Torah portion is Chukat. It covers a lot of ground. There are the mitzvot concerning purification with a red cow, the deaths of important individuals, and the continued wanderings in the desert, which are rife with complaining Israelites,… Read More ›
Painting Miriam by Angela Yarber
We are your subtlest instruments: no music branches to your breast that does not sound in us, no music dies away from you, that in us lives not, and even in your absence your cadence journeys… Allen Mandelbaum, Chelmaxioms The… Read More ›
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