Miriam HaNeviah

Leila Gal Berner

1987

Miriam haneviah, oz vezimra beyadah

Miriam tirkod itanu lehagdil zimrat olam

Miriam tirkod itanu letaken et ha’olam

Bimheirah veyameinu tevieinu el mei hayeshuah, el mei hayeshuah

Miriam, the prophet, strength and song are in her hands,

Miriam will dance with us to strengthen the world’s song,

Miriam will dance with us to heal the world.

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Men, masculine imagery, and references to God as male dominate traditional Jewish liturgy. Recent liturgical innovations have expanded prayer to include women and feminine God language. This prayer integrates the story of one of the few women to be called a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. Modeled after prayers about male prophets that serve important roles in various prayer and ritual contexts, the liturgist emphasizes Miriam’s important place in the theological narrative of redemption. The poem offers a parallel to the prayers about Elijah the prophet that can be integrated into key ritual moments at Passover and the end of the Sabbath.

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Leila Gal Berner

b. 1950

Born in San Francisco, Leila Gal Berner serves as rabbi at Kol Ami: The Northern Virginia Reconstructionist Community and at Bet Mishpachah, the latter serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Jewish community of Washington, D.C. Berner lived in Israel, earned her doctorate in history from UCLA, and was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She was also the founding director of the Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

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