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Recently, Jewish feminists have turned toward the biblical figure of Miriam to expand women’s place in Jewish traditions. Penina Moïse anticipated the potential innovative role Miriam might play.
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Penina Moïse
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Charleston, United States of America
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1833
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A pronouncement: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
I have shown you love, said the Lord. But you ask, “How have You shown us love?” After all—declares the Lord—Esau is Jacob…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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As the first and most beautiful relationship in which woman is undeniably necessary to man—the object of his first affections, to whom he owes all of cherishing, happiness, and health, from infancy to…
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Grace Aguilar
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Brighton, United Kingdom
Date:
1844
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Now, lo, I saw a dream and since then I am very feverish. May Iahmoliah attend to my welfare.
Now, if you wish, do not sell them. Let the children eat them. Lo, there do not remain any cucumbers.
Tran…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Early 5th Century BCE
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…
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Isaiah Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1623
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Leiba recognized that Fraydel was in danger of disappearing down the well of her own thoughts.
Fraydel was a secret keeping herself from the world. When she spoke, it was yet another way of keeping…
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Rebecca Goldstein
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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Great was the joy in the mid-1950s in Budapest’s Klauzál Square, in the house of a widow with many children. Those lining up before her vegetable stand in the market saw her smile for the first time…
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Gábor Deutsch
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Budapest, Hungary
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1997
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There are times Nina wants to strike Andras like a flint and make him burn. And there are times when she is patient and steels herself with more strength than he knows. But mostly Nina is lonely. She…
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Allegra Goodman
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1998
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Rebecca:You, Sir, are the cause of his great impudence.
Isaac:Am I really the instrument?
Rebecca:Yes, for you love him for four birds of flight [he hunts for you]. You very much relish the stew he…
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Unknown
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Delft, Dutch Republic
Date:
1699
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The parting was not long in coming. My father died two months before I turned six.
To this day, I go to him at difficult times. Mostly to complain that he abandoned me. The handful of memories that he…
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Shimon Sandbank
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2004