The story of Miriam’s rebellion against her father comes from the Talmud; up until this point in Exodus, we’ve heard only of an unnamed sister who kept watch over Moses on the Nile. Even here ...

Although Miriam was not Moses’ “little sister,” but his older sister, who heroically helped his mother save his life when it was threatened by Pharaoh’s genocidal decree against Israelite ...

Hukat/Decree, the sixth portion of the biblical book Numbers, is about Moses’ sister Miriam, not to be confused with my wife Miriam. It is read in synagogues in Israel on Shabbat, July 9, 2016.

Parashat Chukat (Numbers 20:1-22:1) Who was Miriam? She is the only woman in the Torah who bears the title "Neviah" -- prophetess. So who was she?

Miriam is the sister of Moses, referred to in the Bible as the prophetess who foretold Moses’ birth. Miriam orchestrated a way for Moses’s mother to become his nursemaid.

Miriam, Moses’ friend Some say that the loss of a sibling is harder to bear than the loss of a parent - Moses has to deal with that bereavement in this parasha.

This is the meaning of that which is written with regard to Miriam’s watching Moses in the river: “And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him” (Exodus 2:4), i.e ...

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, ... Miriam is concise. Moses’s poem is long, elaborate, contemplative, and very specific. Miriam’s poem is the mirror opposite.

Miriam and Aaron were not among the people who were demanding meat, but their demand that Moses “come down” to their level was a similar misunderstanding. He had superseded his physical needs ...