The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 3) - In That He, Too, is Mortal: Moshe in Megillat Esther
What do Nimrod, Moses, Esau, Balaam, and Rachel have to do with the Book of Esther? Quite a lot, actually! Join Tamar Weissman in exploring the surprising backstories that form the characters and themes of this timeless Megillah.
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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…