A guided journey - 2-3 minutes

Women carrying the thread

Eight stops, in order, following women who carried practice, protection and memory forward - from the dough set aside first to a woman who led a rabbinic yeshiva and a name still carried through a synagogue that gave later refugees shelter.

1. 1 The dough you give away first A domestic practice associated with women carries an older obligation forward.
2. 2 The Shabbat Table Objects and gestures make the household a repeatable sanctuary.
3. 3 The Contract on the Wall A material legal record places a wife's protection in writing.
4. 4 Rabbi Meir and the wife who argued back Beruriah's argument keeps her voice audible in a male record.
5. 5 The Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo Letters, petitions, legal standing and domestic life recovered from the Geniza's ordinary paper.
6. 6 Zakho: The Jerusalem of Kurdistan Zakho carries a woman who did not stay at a record's edge: Asenath Barzani inherited her father's yeshiva, taught its students and ruled on halakhic questions as a scholar in her own right.
7. 7 The Tomb of Esther and Mordechai Evidence of centuries of care for female memory, not proof of the ancient event.
8. 8 The Ohel Rachel Synagogue, Shanghai A woman's name is carried through public architecture and later refuge history.