Song of Miriam

I have finished the Song of Miriam from the Bible, which some religious people believe was deliberately left unfinished so that it could be finished in the future. I have made it feminist because I’m feminist and I wanted to, so you can consider it titled both “Song of Miriam” and “Feminist Song of Miriam”. I am an American woman (thought some might want to know that.)

The unfinished song of Miriam (from The Tanach, Jewish Publication Society, 1917: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shemot-exodus-chapter-15) is in bold, followed by the additional lines to it which I have written.

The link is to a recording of me singing this.

Sing ye to HaShem, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.

Sing of the end of sexist oppression, someday!

Sing today of the end of oppression of Jews by the Egyptians!

Sing of the freedom we have now!

Sing of the freedom we will have later!

Sing to and praise HaShem, but sing to and praise ourselves also.

We praise ourselves for having the strength and courage to leave our oppressors.

We praise ourselves for knowing that oppression of us as Jews is wrong.

Oppression of women because they are women is also wrong.

Just as HaShem wanted us to stop being oppressed because we were Jews, HaShem wants women to stop being oppressed because they are women.

Women must stop being oppressed by sexism.

Sing that sexism must end, that sexist oppressors must stop their oppression!

Just as HaShem has thrown the horse and rider into the sea, we must throw sexism into the dustbin of the past.

Just as the Egyptians were wrong for oppressing us as Jews, those who oppress us women as women are also wrong.

We fled the Egyptians because they oppressed us.

However, we cannot flee the sexist oppression within our own society.

We must confront it.

We must end it.

Sing of the time when we will end it!

Sing of the hope that that time will come soon!

Sing of the end of sexism!