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...
Rabbi Rachel Bearman
"True service to God is service to one
another." - Lily Montagu
(To learn more about Lily Montagu, please click here.)
Search
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 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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
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...
