Dr. Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg is the current editor of the CCAR [Central Conference of American Rabbis] Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. He was ordained in 1989 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and earned a Doctor of Hebrew Letters degree at HUC-JIR in 1994. He is the author of Midrash for Beginners (Aaronson, 1996), Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most (with Naomi Levy, Jewish Lights, 2013), Because My Soul Longs for You: Integrating Theology into Our Lives (with Elaine Zecher, CCAR 2021), and co-editor of the Reform Movement's high holidays Mahzor, Mishkan HaNefesh.
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Potiphar’s wife sets up her friends to learn about Joseph’s beauty for themselves, the hard way, in a story that appears in both rabbinic midrash and the Quran. Sefer HaYashar, a 16th century midrashic work, dramatizes this story in a way sympathetic to her character, even giving her the name Zuleikha, borrowed from Islamic sources.
Potiphar’s wife sets up her friends to learn about Joseph’s beauty for themselves, the hard way, in a story that appears in both rabbinic midrash and the Quran. Sefer HaYashar, a 16th century midrashic work, dramatizes this story in a way sympathetic to her character, even giving her the name Zuleikha, borrowed from Islamic sources.