Following up on Pharaoh’s Daughter as a part of the erev rav or mixed multitude, quoting from Rev. Wilda Gafney’s Womanist Midrash on “A Pharaonic Princess.” Gafney, Wilda C. Womanist Midrsash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017 Here, for reference, is previous discussion…
Read MoreContinuing exploration of “gathering” and the challenges of forming a community without physical boundaries.
Read MoreExploring “ha-asafsuf,” sometimes “riff raff,” of Numbers 11:4, as “gathering” in opposition to Moses in a chapter also containing a “gathering of elders.” How might this set of contrasting views of gathering apply to our pandemic circumstances and the politicization of gathering today?
Read MoreThis stage explores a teaching from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (“Rav Kook,” 1865-1935), first Ashkenazic chief rabbi in pre-state Israel. Here is the teaching about the Tachash, an unknown animal with a beautiful and multi-colored hide used in creating the portable Tabernacle in the Wilderness. In this teaching, the Tachash is compared to the erevrav, the…
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