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Mia Simring

Mia Simring

Mia Simring is a Kol Tzedek fellow pursuing rabbinic ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 2010, she traveled to Keur Ibra Fall, Senegal on AJWS's ninth Rabbinical Students' Delegation. She has also studied at the Bina Secular Yeshiva Tel Aviv-Yafo, served a rural congregation in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and worked as a chaplain intern at NYU Langone Medical Center. She lives in south Harlem with her husband Jimmy Taber and daughter Nava and is an active member of the Harlem Minyan. Mia can be reached at miasimring@gmail.com.

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Shmini

Parashat Shmini begins as the week of inaugural worship in the Mishkan, the desert temple that enabled God to dwell among the Israelites, is coming to a close. But tragedy strikes when two young priestly acolytes, Nadav and Avihu, die at the altar. It is a brief and puzzling story: we are simply told that each brought his incense pan and offered incense on “strange fire,” even though God had not commanded it of them. And the next thing we know, they are consumed by God’s fire.

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