TELL ME, WHO ARE YOU ...? Ten Biblical Women And Kabbalah - Paperback

Biblical women are often remembered only as wives of important men. Traditional biblical scholarship has focused on patriarchs and male figures, leaving women's stories in the background. Commentaries have frequently judged women's behavior through a culturally male-centered lens-measuring them primarily against expectations of motherhood and domestic roles. From a gender perspective the history of biblical explanation is fascinating!

Tell Me, Who Are You? places ten biblical women at the center, not to diminish men's roles, but to restore women's rightful place in our understanding of Scripture. Stories survive only when they're retold and reinterpreted for each generation.

Why ten women? The number reflects the structure of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life-a Jewish mystical tradition with ten sefirot, or divine qualities. Author Magda van der Ende presents these women as psychological archetypes that resonate universally, since their essential qualities exist within all of us. Drawing on Jewish, Kabbalistic, and extrabiblical sources, this book enriches our understanding of these women's stories while offering an accessible introduction to Kabbalistic wisdom. For women and men. Every drop of wisdom that is passed on and is not lost, serves the well being of humanity.

Magda van der Ende discovered Kabbalah through Martin Buber's Chassidic Legends and has been studying this mystical tradition for decades. She trained under Warren Kenton and translated his work on Kabbalah and Exodus into Dutch. Since 1998, she has taught Kabbalistic wisdom in The Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, and Romania and Japan.

This book was first published in Dutch (2019) and Hungarian (2024). Beyond her writing and teaching, Magda is an avid gardener who designed a working garden in the shape of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Walking its paths offers a tactile, embodied way to deepen spiritual awareness.