The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 2) - And He Cried a Great, Bitter Cry: Eisav in Megillat Esther

This class is sponsored by Carole Daman in honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Rose Goldberg, Bryan Raisel bat Avraham v’Cherna z”l. May we be blessed with good health and long life.

This week's topic: And He Cried a Great, Bitter Cry: Eisav in Megillat Esther

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And He Cried a Great, Bitter Cry: Eisav in Megillat Esther (PDF)

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Tamar Weissman

Tamar Weissman is a tour guide and lecturer in Tanach and Eretz Israel studies. Her first book, Tribal Lands: The Twelve Tribes of Israel in Their Ancestral Territories (Hebrew edition: איש כפי נחלתו), explores the character of each of the shevatim and why each received its particular nahalah. She has recently completed her second book, Shoftim: Israel Becoming, on Israel's adolescence in the Book of Judges and what it says to us today. Her family's farm in the Galilee welcomes visitors…

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