Some doors slam shut so early, you don’t even know you’re locked out.
Other times, you’re pushed through them—and find your way back through the window.

In this powerful conversation with Talmud scholar and activist Chaya Gilboa, we talk about what it means to reclaim tradition. Not as a rebellion, but as a birthright.

Chaya grew up ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem, in a world where women didn’t study sacred texts. She’s now a teacher, a mother, and a woman who can name exactly what lit up in her body when she did start learning Talmud—and what went silent for years before that.