I truly love visiting new communities and serving as a Scholar in Residence!


I’d be honored to come to your community to teach, lead workshops, give Shabbat drashot or lead other forms of educational programming.

Here are some sample topics for you to explore.  I’d be happy to discuss additional topics and to craft a learning experience that will be most relevant for your community.

Lecture/Class Topics:  These are sample topics that I would be happy to speak about in a lecture or class format.

Topics in Tanakh:

  • Siblings Rivalry: Yaakov and Esav vs. Rachel and Leah
  • Fertility Journeys:  The Emotional Journeys of our Foremothers
  • When Children Rebel: King David’s Dynasty and Beyond
  • Women in the Windows: The Mother of Sisera, Princess Michal, and Queen Jezebel
  • How Leaders Fail:  King David vs. King Solomon
  • Hopeless Prophets: Is Death Preferable to Persistence

Unnamed Women in the Torah

  • The Wife of Noach
  • The Wife of Lot
  • The Wife of Potifar
  • The Daughter of Yiftach
  • The Wife of Manoach
  • The Witch of En Dor

Topics in Talmud:

  • The Gift of Suffering?:   Rabbinic Struggles with Life’s Hardships
  • Compassion Under Fire: Talmudic Women Encountering End of Life Moments
  • Adapting to Change and Loss: Grappling with the Upheaval, Gittin 56a
  • Matchmaking vs. Basheret: Rabbinic Insights into Couplehood
  • Israel Has No Mazal: How Superstitious Should We Be?

Contemporary Topics:

  • When Halacha Hurts:  Hair Covering and Headaches and Halachic Infertility
  • Are Chained Wives Still Chained?: The Inside story of Agunah Advocacy
  • Holding Hannah’s Hand: Offering Spiritual Support During Fertility Struggles
  • Nachum Ish Gam Zu: Optimism or Toxic Positivity

Workshop Topics: These are sample topics that are crafted for a workshop format which includes text-based experiential learning, as well as space for introspection and group discussion.

Personal Wisdom from Jewish Women:

  • EVE: Why is she always blamed?
  • SARAH: From Follower to Freedom
  • SEARCH: The Matriarch Archivist
  • MIRIAM: The Challenge of Comparison
  • THE DAUGHTERS OF TZELOFFCHAD: When Women Find their Voices
  • RACHAV: A Life Transformed
  • CHANAH: The Discovery of Inner Strength
  • NAOMI: Rebuilding After Loss

Beit Midrash in Motion: These workshops incorporate movement and meditation into Talmudic text study for a fully embodied experience.

  • The Maidersvant’s Compassion:  Ketubot 103
  • Hiding from the Neighbor: Taanit 24b-25a
  • Breaking Free from Suffering:  Brachot 5b
  • Groupthink: Baba Metizah 59b

To explore this possibility together , please be in touch: Ddavis@yeshivatmaharat.org