Sisters At Sinai: New Tales Of Biblical Women

every verse in the Torah is connected to every other verse, and every time in the Torah is connected to every other time, is part of an understanding that everything and everyone is woven into a single fabric.

mythic space where our ancestors' spirits can sustain us and give us hope for the future.

"midrash, like prayer at its truest, is an activist response to existential despair"

Stories are a way of obtaining justice, of giving voice, of sharing perspective.

Midrash is an act of prayer because it is a gift to the sacred: It is a way of offering back to the Torah the fruits of our encounter with it.

We need never fear that we or the Torah will be broken in this mysterious encounter. The text is great enough and strong enough to be profoundly flexible, profoundly generative, even in the modern context where myths are fragile.

Midrash is liberating, deeply comforting, and life renewing, for by "remembering" ourselves into the Bible, as this book strives to do, we can enrich the past and invent hope for the future.

The Torah is called the "tree of life," and for something to be alive, it has to grow.

It is my belief that to reveal what was hidden is sacred work,