“And It Was On That Night”: How the Gideon Story Revolutionizes Pesach
Day:
Sunday
Date:
March 23 - March 23, 2025
Time
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Description
The Gideon story in the Book of Judges, which unfolds over the nights of Pesach, provides a unique lens through which to consider some important themes in the upcoming Pesach holiday. We will explore how an adolescent Israel, finding its way in the post-Joshua years, is transformed by the very special night “set aside from the six days of Creation” (Talmud RH 11b), and we will reflect on how the lessons from that biblical Pesach might inspire this year’s personal and national redemption.
Teacher
Tamar Weissman lectures on Tanach and Eretz Israel studies for Matan and Torah in Motion. She is currently one of twenty women Torah scholars on the Sefaria Torah Library Women’s Authors’ Cohort, “Word by Word.” She is the author of two books: Tribal Lands: The Twelve Tribes of Israel in their Ancestral Territories, and recently, The Bible’s Wild Child: Midrashic Patterns in the Book of Shoftim. Tamar is also an Israel tour guide. Tamar and her family live on a farm in the Galil, where they practice sustainable agriculture.
