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Akeydah Poem: Sarah's Vision
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While preparing a creative midrash exercise for the upcoming High Holy Days, the MUSE struck... -
How is Yom Kippur like Purim?
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A midrash compares the two days, by noting that the most solemn Fast Day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, is similar to Purim: the day of feasti... -
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Teshuvah means Returning
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Teshuvah/Returning
c. Yael Fischman, 2024
But I don't want
to return
to repeat the pattern
the circular staircase
ruin and recrimination.
I want- oh how I want-
to start again, (See more at https://www.renaissancewomankippot.org)
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And I sent before you Moses, Aaron and Miriam...
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Legends concerning Miriam often involve a magical well which sprang up and followed her wherever she went. Some stories even say that she was a water witch, gifted with locating actual water where there was none: a very useful skill in the desert, yes?
She was also the one who had the vision to have the women pack their timbrels in order to celebrate their redemption at the shores of the Red/Reed Sea.
If Miriam impresses you also, please take a look at this headdress style kippah created in her honor!
www.renaissancewomankippot.org
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What's in a Name? The Friendship of Ruth and Naomi
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An element of godliness is present in the relationship between Ruth and Naomi...
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Our Foremothers: Beautiful and Strong
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I am grateful to Artist Joanne Fink for hosting the session which inspired this poem, and for Reb Alan Kaufman for his wisdom sharing... Our Foremo... -
The Counting: an Omer Poem
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The Countingby Yael Fischman What does it mean for us,Children of Diasporahands more accustomed to the click and whirr of the computerthan to the r... -
Tzipporah and my Mother
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Tzipporah, the wife of Moses (who may or may not have been the Cushite of whom/on behalf of whom* Miriam and Aaron complained), was a woman of decisive action. She had to be. When a life threatening illness attacked both Moses and their newborn child, -
Is it fate or is it art? A Purim message...
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On Purim, we read about the saving of the Jewish people by Esther the Queen of Persia, who was a hidden Jew. Haman, the evil grand vizier, had d... -
Bitter waters
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“How can you sing when My creatures are dying?” God said to the angels* But I am not an angel, said Miriam I am waters made bitter by enslavement ... -
In One Day: A Poem
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In One Day: A Poem
https://renaissancewomankippot.org/blogs/muse/in-one-day-a-poem
I cried out, "Why should I lose you both in one day?" Some people thought I meant you and your father I meant you and your brother. Had they asked, I would have told them. Now I tell you, my twins, Jacob, Esau...
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