Chapter 20 Summary

Mimi gives a class for the women in honor of Shavot. The women hope that this is a sign the community will be coming back together. Mimi teaches on the Book of Ruth how God used Ruth, a strange lady from a strange land, as part of the lineage for King David because of her personal characteristics and in spite of her past. As the ladies walk home, they imagine the heavens opening and instead of seeing the Ten Commandments being handed down, they see their own town, which seems small and insignificant. Behind this town the see a line of women back from their ancestors holding hands, connected by their religion and ritual. They see their daughters to, but there is a gap they will have to stretch across to reach their hands. Although the women search the sky for answers, they...