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

Dates

February 3, 2025 to March 10, 2025

Time

Mondays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern

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with Tamar Weissman
Mondays February 3- March 10 (6 weeks)
11:00 AM Eastern time, 6:00 PM Israel time (5:00 PM Israel time for March 10)

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.

Monday February 3rd

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

Monday February 10th

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

Monday February 17th

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

Monday February 24th

Who Counts the Dust of Jacob, the Couplings of Israel: Balaam in Megillat Esther

Monday March 3

When Morning Came, There Was Leah: Rachel in Megillat Esther

Monday March 10

Two Shushans: Bridging the Divide in Preparation for Purim

Topics:

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

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 (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…

Tamar Weissman bio & resources

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

The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 1) - And the Entire Land was of One Language: Nimrod in Megillat Esther

February 3, 2025

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

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

February 10, 2025

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The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 3) - In That He, Too, is Mortal: Moshe in Megillat Esther

February 17, 2025

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The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 4) - Who Counts the Dust of Jacob, the Couplings of Israel: Balaam in Megillat Esther

February 24, 2025

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The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 5) - When Morning Came, There Was Leah: Rachel in Megillat Esther

March 3, 2025

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The Deep Backstories of Megillat Esther (Part 6) - Two Shushans: Bridging the Divide in Preparation for Purim

March 10, 2025

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