And DinahDina is Jacob's only daughter and the sister of the twelve tribes. went out to see the daughters of the land—
Did you find them, our girls?
Did you dance across the desert with Naama, Liri, Daniela, Karina, and Agam?
Did you gaze at the stars with Arbel or drink a pint with Emily?
Did you laugh outside with Doron and Romi, the sun warming your arms?
Did you dance in the rain with Shiri, a makeshift mikvehThe ritual bath. The waters of the mikveh symbolically purify – they are seen as waters of rebirth. A convert immerses in the mikveh as part of conversion. Many Orthodox married women go to the mikveh following their period and before resuming sexual relations. Couples go to the mikveh before being married. Many, including some men, immerse before Yom Kippur; some go every Friday before Shabbat. blessing you both?
In that terrible moment, were you surprised that it was neither fight or flight, but freeze?
Have you screamed yet?
Have you connected with your sisters like VashtiIn the Purim story, she is King Ahashveros's first wife. In the first chapter of the Book of Esther, Quieen Vashti refuses to dance for the King and is banished. Long villainized, Vashti has been recently embraced by Jewish women as a contemporay feminist heroine for her defiance of the king., Tamar, and LilithIn the midrash (rabbinic story about the Torah story), Lilith is imagined as Adam's first wife. Because she wanted equality, she wss ultimately banished, and God provided Adam with a more obedient wife. Lilith, according to tradition, lives on as a kind of demon, causing men to have wet dreams and stealing infant boys from their cribs. Today, Lilith has been reclaimed by Jewish feminists as a symbol of women's equality., shouting to Take Back the Night and to Bring Them Home?
Dinah, daughter of justice, what have you pursued, so that you may live?
What does your voice sound like?
Your story is not over; your life is larger than this.
We’re listening.
