We all know moments of chaos, moments when we feel trapped with no good choices. But our tradition reminds us: if we can listen for the angel crying out, if we lift our eyes and widen our horizon, we may discover that God has already placed a “ram in the thicket” for us — an opening, a glimmer of hope, a way forward we couldn’t see before.

Each year, the shofar serves as the angel’s cry for us at Rosh Hashanah, its unique sound halts us in our tracks and urges us to look up and examine our lives in a different light than we do during the year.

And to think— if the daughters of Zelophehad did not work together to find the gall, the audacity, the gumption to come forward, to stand before the assembly, and speak together, they would not have made systemic change for women in the Torah and beyond.