Esther Graff-Radford is a Black woman and a Jew by choice whose soul found its way home down a long and winding path. She grew up in rural Louisiana and now lives in Atlanta with her husband, three children, and a wonderpack of chickens, dogs, guinea pigs, and honeybees. When she is not practicing law, she is studying Gemara, hunting wild mushrooms, and walking dogs at her local shelter.
![Essay on Black Souther Reading of Talmud](https://jewishdiversitystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bbq.pexels-samer-daboul-2233729-scaled-1-510x382.jpg)
It’s that the cookout and the Talmud share a deep mission. They are both containers for existential conversations my elders let me in on because I am theirs