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Join Rabbi Rachel Bearman and Rabbi Paul Kipnes as they restore the voices of biblical women and men who have not been given the opportunity to speak.

Mordechai How can I tell my beloved niece, Esther, that it may be time to step out of the existence I helped cultivate for her because...

I am Part of the Resistance Inside the Ahasuerus Royal Court by Anonymous, A Senior Courtier in King Ahasuerus’ Court The New Persian...

In the first chapter of Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther), we read about the life and the downfall of the sitting queen of Shushan,...

I should have known that my sister would be the one to usher me through this moment of danger, possibility, and divine intervention....

The ceremony that gave Aaron and his sons the responsibilities and power of the priesthood required each man to wear an elaborate...

When Moses returned from the mountaintop that second time, I was shocked and dismayed to see the coarse tablets he was carrying. Uneven,...

In this Midrashic Monologue, we suggest an answer to the question, “Who were the 70 elders who accompanied Moses up Mount Sinai?” We also...

I could tell my brother was furious. His nostrils flared as he stood on the mountain, looking down on the crowd dancing around a golden...

Yocheved: Have you ever stood outside of a moment? Have you ever experienced something so viscerally, with so many of your senses, that...

In this Midrashic Monologue, we meet Zipporah, wife of Moses and mother to Gershom and Eliezar, as she and her family travel toward...

Moses fled his life from Egypt and in Midian assumed the quiet life of a shepherd. When he encountered what our tradition has called the...

Moses, some say, had three mothers: Yocheved, who gave birth to him, raised him for three months, and placed him in the ark on the river;...

In Parashat Va-y’chi, Jacob blesses his sons as he lies on his deathbed. We note the absence of any blessing for — or mention of — his...

In Parashat Vayishlach, we read of the death of our matriarch, Rachel, who does not survive the birth of her second child, a boy whom she...