Hebrew Wine glass with \"Miriam\" design on the metal hand crafted stem $19.90


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Hebrew Wine glass with \"Miriam\" design on the metal hand crafted stem $19.90:
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This is beautifulhand crafted wine glass.Here is a little on \"Miriam\".. I copied it from The Jewish Women\'s Archives I found it fascinating !I found this at an Estate sale and was impressed how it was made and what it means

At this time Miriam emerges from her hiding place and approaches Pharaoh\'s daughter, offering to find a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. The princess agrees and Miriam brings none other than her own mother to care for Moses. \"Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you,\" Pharaoh\'s daughter says to Yocheved (Exodus 2:9). Hence, as a result of Miriam\'s boldness Moses was raised by his mother until he was weaned, at which time he was adopted by the princes and became a member of the Egyptian royal family. (See \"The Passover Story\" for more information.)

Miriam at the Red Sea



When Miriam is re-introduced in this part of the story, the text refers to her as a \"prophetess\" (Exodus 15:20) and later in Numbers 12:2 she reveals that God has spoken to her. Later, as the Israelites wander through the desert in search of the Promised Land, the midrash tells us that a well of water followed Miriam and quenched the people\'s thirst. It is from this part of her story that the relatively new tradition of Miriam\'s Cup at the Passover seder is derived.

Miriam Speaks Against Moses

Miriam also appears in the biblical book of Numbers, when she and her brother Aaron speak unfavorably about the Cushite woman Moses is married to. They also discuss how God has spoken to them too, implying that they are unhappy with the status quo between themselves and their younger brother. God overhears their conversation and calls the three siblings into the Tent of Meeting, where God appears as a cloud before them. Miriam and Aaron are instructed to step forward and God explains to them that Moses is different from other this encounter Miriam discovers that her skin is white and that she is afflicted with leprosy. Surprisingly, Aaron is not afflicted or punished in any way, though he too spoke against Moses. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin suggests this difference stems from the Hebrew verb used to describe their comments about Moses\' wife. It is feminine – ve\'teddaber (\"and she spoke\") – indicting that Miriam was the one who initiated the conversation against Moses (Telushkin, 130). Others have suggested that Aaron was not afflicted with leprosy because, as the High Priest, it would not have been seemly for his body to be touched by such a dreaded disease of the flesh.

Upon seeing Miriam\'s punishment Aaron asks Moses to speak to God on her behalf. Moses responds immediately, crying out to God in Numbers 12:13: \"O Lord, please heal her\" (\"El nah, refah na lah\"). God eventually heals Miriam, but first insists that she be exiled from the Israelite camp for seven days. She is shut outside the camp for the required period of time and the people wait for her. When she returns, Miriam has been healed and the Israelites move on to the Desert of Paran. Several chapters later, in Numbers 20, she dies and is buried at Kadesh.

The tradition of Miriam’s cup stems from the legendary well that followed her and the Israelites in the desert and also the way in which she spiritually supported her people. The cup is meant to honor Miriam’s story and the spirit of all women, who nurture their families just as Miriam helped sustain the Israelites. The bible tells us she died and was buried in Kadesh. Upon her death there was no water for the Israelites until Moses and Aaron prostrated themselves before God.


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