e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther

with Tamar Weissman
Mondays February 3- March 3 (5 weeks)
11:00 AM Eastern time, 6:00 PM Israel time


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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Dates

February 3, 2025 March 3, 2025

Time

Mondays 11:00 AM 12:00 PM EST

Topics

Tanach, Biblical Methodology, Ketuvim, Esther, Figures in Tanach, General Tanach Topics

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Past classes of e-TiM: The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther

The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 1)

February 3, 2025

Tamar Weissman

Program: e-TiM: The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther

Source Material: And the Entire Land was of One Language: Nimrod in Megillat Esther

Watch The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 1) || Tamar Weissman on YouTube.

The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 2)

February 10, 2025

Tamar Weissman

Program: e-TiM: The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther

Source Material: And He Cried a Great, Bitter Cry: Eisav in Megillat Esther

Watch The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 2) || Tamar Weissman on YouTube.

The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 3)

February 17, 2025

Tamar Weissman

Program: e-TiM: The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther

Source Material: In That He, Too, is Mortal: Moshe in Megillat Esther

Watch The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 3) || Tamar Weissman on YouTube.

Meet the speaker

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, explores the personalities of the shevatim and why each was granted his specific nahalah. She has just finished her second book "The Bible's Wild Child," on midrashic patterns in the Book of Shoftim. Tamar and her family practice sustainable agriculture on their farm in the Galil. Follow her adventures on Instagram @weissmanfarm or Facebook @משק וייסמן

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