The Women's Haggadah: Miriam's Name

"She was the first of all prophets. Why was she given the name Miriam? Mar is bitter, for it was a bitter time. Mari is rebellion and am is people, for the Jews expressed their bitterness in rebellion."

(The Women's Haggadah. © 1993, 1994 by E.M. Broner)

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