Eve Was the First
Foodie
Long before cookbooks and celebrity chefs, Eve tasted, chose, and followed her curiosity, changing history with a single bite
The Experience
Guided by ancient texts and modern technique, the experience treats food as a form of storytelling — one that engages the senses, challenges assumptions, and reconnects participants with stories often read, but rarely tasted.
Text Becomes Taste
Ancient passages are explored not only through reading, but through flavor. Each dish is inspired by a specific biblical moment, allowing guests to encounter familiar stories in an entirely new way — through the palate.
A Guided Table
Rabbi Josh Singer leads the textual journey, offering insight, context, and questions, while Chef Aliza Grayevsky Somekh translates these ideas into thoughtfully crafted dishes. Together, they create a dialogue between text and table.
Living Tradition
This is not a reenactment, but a reinterpretation. By blending ancient narratives with contemporary cuisine, the experience invites participants to engage with the Bible as a living, evolving tradition — one that can still surprise, provoke, and nourish.
Event Hosts
Rabbi Jhos Singer
text & interpretation
"A Maggid (storyteller), educator, and artist-in-residence based in the Bay Area, known for teaching at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva and Urban Adamah. He focuses on queer Torah, Mussar, and Jewish mindfulness."
Chef Aliza Grayevsky Somekh
culinary vision
"Oakland-based founder of Bishulim SF, where she shares her love of contemporary Israeli cuisine as a caterer and culinary instructor. Aliza is an eighth-generation Jerusalemite. Raised in the kitchens of Jerusalem, she grew up cooking and eating everything the city’s streets and markets had to offer, making her intimately familiar with the city’s culinary collision of flavors and cultures. It is that ’best of all worlds’ touch that she brings to her cooking"