Muse – Tagged "Torah commentary"– Page 2

God's Grimoire

by Yael Fischman September 8, 2022

What would we see if we looked into God's Book of Life? Would it look like an ancient grimoire, such as the one owned by Hagrid,from the Harry Potter series?

Posted in #High Holy Days, Book of Life, grimoire, Harry Potter, Jewish spirituality, multiverse, New Year, Rosh Hashanah, Torah commentary

On the Fringe

by Yael Fischman June 21, 2022

Being "on the fringe" can mean the outer periphery of a place, ideas that are quite far from the accepted norm, even land that is on the far flung ...

Posted in #art as midrash, #Jewish feminist, #wearable art, beaded wire kippah, commmentary, fringes, garment, tassels, Torah commentary, tzitzit

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Lifting up the Heads

by Yael Fischman June 10, 2022

Lifting up the Heads

https://renaissancewomankippot.org/blogs/muse/lifting-up-the-heads

Parshat Naso deals with a lot of mundane "stuff": from the census to the "sota", the trial by ordeal forced upon a suspected adulteress ( but not, we note, for the adulterer). She is forced to drink waters which will make her violently ill or kill her. As my former Rabbi, Jonathan Cohen, used to say,

"What is it about the patriarchy that you don't get?"

And yet, Manoah's WIFE is addressed in the Haftarah...

Posted in #art as midrash, #wearable art, Biblical Mother, cherub, Haftarah for Naso, headdress, Jewish legends, Jewish spirituality, kippah for woman, Manoah's wife, music charm, Torah commentary, wings

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