Dirshuni – Contemporary Women′s Midrash

Tamar Biala teaches in various batei midrash, rabbinical schools, and adult education programs in the United States and Israel. She coedited volume one of the Hebrew-language edition of Dirshuni with Nehama Weingarten-Mintz and, in 2018, published volume two.

• The Enchanted World of Midrash and its Unexpected Return in Recent Generations – Tamar KadariThe Road to Women’s Midrash – Tamar Biala Translators’ NotesPart I: Creation of the WorldMiscarriage and Creation – Tamar BialaThis One Will Be Called Woman – Miri WestreichAnd Your Desire Will Be for Your Man – Rivkah LubitchAnd He Will Rule Over You – Dana PulverWhy Was it Given to Her – Tamar BittonThe Ever-Turning Sword – Tamar BialaPart II: Matriarchs and PatriarchsThe Tears of Salt – Ruti TimorSarah’s Trials – Naama EldarSarah and the Sacrifice of Isaac – Rivkah LubitchStirrings – Bilha Kritzer ArihaAnd Where Was Sarah? – Tamar BialaIn the Presence of His Wife – Hagit RappelAnd Dinah Went Out – Rivkah LubitchThe Daughter of Dinah – Ayala TzruyaLet Your House Be Open Wide – Hagit BartovPart III: ExodusThe Midwives Saw and Feared – Orna Pilz Bitya, The Daughter of God – Gili ZivanThe Giving of the Ten Commandments – Tamar BialaPart IV: Israel in the DesertDaughters of Tzelophchad – Rivkah LubitchDeath by a Kiss: Miriam's Passing – Tamar Biala Part V: Prophets and WritingsTanot, Jephthah’s Daughter – Rivkah LubitchI Will Build You Up Again – Yael LevinA Woman of Valor – Adi BlutPart VI: Sexuality, Love, and MarriageMore Bitter than Death – Rivkah LubitchAfter Twenty-Four Years – Rivkah LubitchFor Love is as Fierce as Death – Tamar BialaThe Ways of Marriage – Avital HochsteinOne Who Did Not Find a Wife – Yael UntermanAnd Eve Knew – Efrat Garber-AranPart VII: Fertility and ParenthoodSeven Clean Days – Etti RommHe Supports the Fallen – Nehama Weingarten-MintzThe Blessing for Breastfeeding – Efrat Garber-Aran All the Mitzvot for the Son and the Daughter – Naama ShakedDaughters of The Place – Hila UnnaPart VIII: Rape and Incest And Now be Silent – Tirza Barmatz-SteinThe Father’s Scream: Concealing and Revealing – Oshrat ShohamThe Mother’s Scream: Uncovering and Expulsion – Oshrat ShohamThe Woman’s Scream: Cover-Up and Tikkun – Oshrat ShohamPart IX: Inequality in Jewish Law and in the Rabbinic CourtThe Assembly of God – Rivka LubitchRachel, A Mother of Mamzerim – Rivka LubitchMoses Visits Beruriah’s Beit Midrash – Rivka LubitchThe Refused Woman – Rivkah LubitchJamila the Objector – Rivka LubitchVows – Rivkah LubitchPart XI: Post-Holocaust TheologyA Raven and a Dove – Tamar BialaThe Shepherd in the Lilies – Dini Deutsch FrankelPart XII: HolidaysSukkot Prayer for Rain (Tefillat HaGeshem) – Ruth Gan KaganPesach The Four Daughters – Einat RamonShavu’otThe Love of Ruth and Naomi – Yael Oryan and Ziva OfekRuth, Who Interpreted – Yael UntermanContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

"Dirshu­ni is a step for­ward; it carves out a place for con­tem­po­rary women to see them­selves in the sacred texts. It focus­es on the courage, the heart­break, and the fight of bib­li­cal women — and it brings them to life. ... What would Judaism look like if women had been read­ing, study­ing, inter­pret­ing, and com­ment­ing on our sacred texts all this time? Dirshu­ni gives us a glimpse of that, and the view is spectacular."