Passover Quiz From Moving Traditions

Moses – his birth mother, Yocheved, and Pharaoh’s daughter, Batya, who rescues him from the Nile. He never meets his father.

After Moses kills the Egyptian taskmaster he flees to the wilderness and encounters Yitro’s daughters as they are shepherding the flocks. Women were often roaming the countryside with a herd, either with other women or alone.

Dr. Susannah Heschel is credited with the idea of placing an orange on the seder plate to represent the inclusion of Jewish gays and lesbians.

According to midrash (Midrash Tanhuma, Pekudei 9), as a way to control the Hebrew population, Pharaoh would not allow the men to sleep in their homes. The men would work and fall asleep in the fields. Women went out to them and woke them from their exhaustion and depression, feeding them and reminding them of their humanity.

Moses, in one of his most emotional pleas to God (Numbers 11:12) says “Did I give birth to these people, that I should carry them in my bosom, like a nursemaid?”

Tziporah – the woman Moses marries when he runs away to Midian, circumcises their son, Gershom, in the only mention of a woman mohel.

Both Hebrew women and men donated earrings.

The original sound design recorded all of the actors to create a multi-gendered voice of God. However, in the final edit Val Kilmer, who played Moses, also recorded the voice of God.