Sisters At Sinai: New Tales Of Biblical Women

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

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.

perhaps our generation reveals the aspect of liberation,

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.

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

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

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