Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness: The Torah of Miriam

1. You can find the account of the people at the sea and the songs of Miriam and Moses in Exodus Chapter 14 and 15. Nachshon is named as the first person into the sea in the Talmud, Sotah 37a.
2. Maor VaShemesh, Beshalach 20 offers an extensive teaching on the power of Miriam’s song versus Moses’s song and the magic of circle dancing. 
3. Rabbi Beroka’s conversation with Elijah the Prophet can be found in Taanit 22a:7
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1. The concept of Seventy Faces of Torah appears in many ancient sources including Bamidbar Rabbah 13:16
2. The excerpt of the song Elokai Neshama Shenatata that you heard can be found in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6W8GxuBYNM
3. The story of Miriam approaching Basya begins in Exodus 2:7
4. The Elohai Neshama prayer that affirms the purity of all of our souls is based on a text recorded in Berachot 60b
5. Reb Nachman on “m...

1. You can learn more about Rabbi Jericho’s experience leaving ultra-Orthodoxy in their memoir Cut Me Loose, under their old name, Leah Vincent.
2. Reb Zalman on spiritual vitamins here. With gratitude to Seth Fishman.
3. The Zohar on the sacred encased in harm can be found in Pekudei 26:248 
4. One of many examples of a mystic reading the Torah archetypically can be found in this teaching by the mystical master Rabbi Shefa Gold.
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1. The idea that Miriam has unique Torah to teach us is rooted in a passage in the Zohar (Shlach 12:116) that describes Miriam’s celestial yeshiva in which people learn the workings of the universe.
2. The lineage of Miriam is established in Exodus 1:21
3. The quote from Reb Zalman comes from Pnai Or Wisdom School can be found here,  with gratitude to Seth Fishman.
4. The Sufi song you heard can be found here.
5. The idea that Mitzrayim refers to...

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