Rebbetzin Chava Kuperman teaches Torah to Russian-speaking women. She was born in Tashkent into the family of Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber. According to Toldot Yeshurun’s biographical profile, she began teaching as a young woman at her father’s request. Her husband is Rabbi Avraham Kuperman.
Learning and passing on tradition
Her classes cover Tanakh, prayer, the Jewish calendar and questions of women’s lives. She has taught at Michlalah in Bayit Vegan and addressed women’s audiences in Israel and abroad. In her published interview with Migdal Times, she discusses Jewish family life and preparing a young woman for marriage, connecting the study of laws with an understanding of their meaning.
Tanakh and the history of the Jewish people
A particular strand of her work follows Jewish history through biblical texts. The Twelve Tribes of the Jewish People was prepared from recordings of her lessons. Our magazine features her articles on the matriarchs, prophets, festivals and family relationships. They place familiar narratives within a wider context: their participants, their relationship with the Jewish people and what the story can teach a person today.
The author’s articles in our magazine
- Jonah - The Gift of Prophecy - In the Merit of Joy
- Jonah - A Disciple of the Prophet Elijah
- Malachi - My Messenger
- The Book of Zechariah — Mourning the Death of Mashiach ben Yosef
- The Book of Zechariah — Prophecy about the Days of Mashiach
- The Book of Zechariah - Public Fasts in the Days of the Second Temple
- The Book of Zechariah - Two Staffs, or the Carrot and the Stick
- The Book of Zechariah - The Four Directions
- The Book of Zechariah - Horses and Chariots in the Prophecies
- Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah - The Prophecies of Daniel and Zechariah
- Eshet Chayil — You Surpass Them All
- Haggai - “You Earn Wages for a Purse with Holes”
Sources and publications
- Toldot Yeshurun — Chava Kuperman’s biographical profile
- Toldot Yeshurun — information about the Kuperman family
- Migdal Times — interview on Jewish women and family life
- Michlalah Jerusalem — official faculty page for Chava Kuperman
- Toldot Yeshurun — The Twelve Tribes of the Jewish People, edited lesson series