Zissen Pesach! We geeked out on Miriam this year. Did you know she is the only Biblical matriarch not identified as a wife or mother? Historical sources suggest she had her own pre - monotheism goddess cult, recognized as a bringer of water in the desert? Her gift of prophecy was recognized as a child when she may have foretold the birth of Moses? While Moses has many moments of destructive, even murderous, rage, Miriam acts only in service of life?

Moses represents redemption as a single peak lightning strike moment, while Miriam stands for cycle/process/flow?

Her name means both "bitter" and "rebellion" and yet Rashi says when the Israelites were fleeing Egypt with only the clothes on their backs and flour they flash-baked into matza, she and her women had the foresight to also grab tambourines, because you can't have deliverance without joy?