Rabbi Rachel Bearman

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    Moses & the Storm

    According to tradition, Rosh Chodesh Elul (the first day of the month before the High Holy Days) was the day that Moses went back up...
    Moses & the Storm

    A Story of Motherhood

    The sound woke me from a deep sleep. It must have triggered the instinct that caring for my own son had planted deeply in my brain...
    A Story of Motherhood

    A New Midrash for Ki tisa

    THE ISRAELITES: The whispers have been flying for days. They buzz and bite like the flies that tormented the Egyptians. Moses has been...
    A New Midrash for Ki tisa

    Miriam: More Water Than Woman

    I’ve been waiting to die for weeks. Each day, as we travel through the desert, I put one foot in front of the other, toes slipping in...
    Miriam: More Water Than Woman

    In the beginning...

    In the beginning, for unknowable amounts of time, Divinity existed in a world that was unformed and mysterious. They were not lonely....
    In the beginning...

    A reflection on this moment of transition

    A reflection on this moment of transition

    A Midrash For Vayishlach

    The prayer of the unnamed, unloved, and unwritten. We are the wives of Jacob. We are the unnamed, the unloved, and the unwritten. We are...
    A Midrash For Vayishlach

    A New Midrash for Bereshit

    I was the snake. The fruit was not temptation; it was opportunity. The sin would have been to stay in ignorance, to remain in the garden...
    A New Midrash for Bereshit

    Korach Was Right

    “They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, ‘You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the...
    Korach Was Right

    Sarai in the Palace (A Midrash for Lech Lecha)

    In Genesis 12:1, God calls to Abram, telling him to leave his homeland and to go to a land that God will show him. Abram and Sarai follow...
    Sarai in the Palace (A Midrash for Lech Lecha)
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