Sisters At Sinai: New Tales Of Biblical Women

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.

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.

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.

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

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

the Torah applies to every other verse, every time and every place.

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

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