Topic Tags: midrash

“I have no people and my God makes me mourn…”

“The water waited to see the animals again, / the shapes they would assume and the sounds they’d make…”

“Prophecy is the glue that yokes today / with tomorrow, it is one hopeful word…”

A midrash shared from the perspective of Elisheba.

“The child / had suckled my breast, but / would call another mother.”

“I am thirsty to return to the peace of our peoplehood…”

A midrashic tale of how twelve sisters, representing each of the twelve months, gather to mourn on Tisha b’Av