By telling and re-telling difficult, even ethically repugnant, stories in the Torah, we may move from silence to healing and from narrowness to expanse.
The Ballad of the Five Women (sung to the tune of "She'll be coming Round the Mountain") tells the story of Shifrah, Puah, Miriam, Batya and Tzipora, five women of the Exodus.
A genuinely egalitarian religious tradition can only exist when we consciously work to include voices that have been excluded, from the ancient world forward.
