Songs
Character | Songs | THEME | TORAH | HOLIDAY |
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Tamar | I Was a Desert | activism, power, risk, self-sufficiency, sexuality | Vayeshev | - |
Miriam | Snow/Scorpions & Spiders | being an outsider, leadership, loneliness, social dynamics, unfairness | Behaalotcha | Passover |
Sotah | Secrets/You’re Always Watching | power, ritual, secrets, sexuality, shame, violence | Naso | - |
Hannah | Marble Floor | desire, finding your voice, infertility, prayer, suffering | - | Rosh Hashana (haftarah) |
Bat Yiftach / Jephthah’s Daughter | Mountain/ When My Father Came Back | human sacrifice, sacrifice, violence, vows | Chukat (haftarah) | - |
Samson's First Wife | Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey | breakups, love, relationship difficulties, riddles, violence | - | - |
Judith | Who Sent the Heat | activism, appearance, danger, food, risk-taking, sexuality, violence | - | Chanukah |
Rebecca | I Fell Off My Camel | no lyrics | Vayeshev | - |
Ruth | Where You Go | conversion (lyrics directly from Torah), devotion, love | - | Shavuot |
Tamar | A Lion At Rest | no lyrics | Vayeshev | - |
Lilith | We Are Androgynous | creation, feminism, LGBTQ+, mysticism, power, sexuality | Bereishit | - |
Potiphar’s Wife | Lemons | desire, Jewish/Muslim texts, power dynamics, sexuality | Vayeshev | - |
Serakh bat Asher | Tell Me | mysticism, visions, wisdom, women as prophets | Vayigash | Passover |
Rachel and Leah | DNA O Sister | deception, loyalty, power, sibling relationships, sisterhood | Vayetzei, Vayishlach | - |
Woman of Valor / Eshet Chayil | Rubies | honoring women, love, marriage | - | Shabbat (Friday night song) |
Rebecca, Sarah | Emeralds & Microscopes | ancestors, communicating with lost loved ones, family relationships | Chayei Sarah | - |
Angel of Bethesda | Bethesda | - | - | - |
Yael and Deborah | O General | female leadership, food, military strategy, violence | Beshalach (haftarah) | Rosh Hashana |
The Israelite Women in Egypt | Apples | activism, food, marriage, oppression, sexuality | Shmot | Passover |
Judith | Waltz for a Beheading | no lyrics | - | Chanukah |
Ruth | Separate Histories | conversion, interfaith family, love, marriage | - | Shavuot |
Lot’s wife | Of Meeting In the Night | changing selves, letting go of the past, moving on, nostalgia | Vayeira | - |
Sarah | River So Wide | motherhood, parenting, struggling with God, violence | Chayei Sarah, Vayeira | Rosh Hashana |
Daughters of Tzelofchad | New Arithmetic | activism, feminism, law, questioning power, sisterhood, social justice | Pinchas | - |
Wise-Hearted Women | Wise Hearted | craft, creativity, devotion, spirituality, worship | Vayakhel | - |
Hagar | Arrow & Bow | being an outsider, danger, motherhood, suffering | Vayeira | Rosh Hashana (Torah reading) |
Noah’s wife | Measuring Tape | environmentalism, loss, marriage, relationship dynamics | Noach | - |
Eve | Open the Ground | grief, loss, motherhood, parenting | Bereishit | - |
Vashti | I’m Done Dressing up for You | activism, appearance, feminism, questioning power | - | Purim (Book of Esther) |
Lot’s wife | Song For Salt | - | Vayeira | - |