Chapters of the heart : Jewish women sharing the Torah of our lives / edited by Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer.
2013
BM726 .C48 2013eb
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Title
Chapters of the heart : Jewish women sharing the Torah of our lives / edited by Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer.
ISBN
9781630870294 (electronic bk.)
1630870293 (electronic bk.)
9781620320136
1620320134
1630870293 (electronic bk.)
9781620320136
1620320134
Published
Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages)
Call Number
BM726 .C48 2013eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)889814288
Summary
"Chapters of the Heart invites readers into the lives of twenty women for whom Jewish language and texts provide a lens for understanding their experiences. The authors don't just use religious words (texts, theologies, or liturgies) like a cookbook. Instead they serve readers something closer to a real meal, prepared with love and intention. Each essay shares one piece of its writer's heart, one chapter of experience as refracted through the author's particular Jewish optic. The authors write about being daughters, mothers, sisters, partners, lovers, and friends. They share their experiences of parenting, infertility, and abortion. One describes accompanying her young husband through his life-threatening illness. Another tells of her daughter's struggle with an eating disorder. Still another reflects on long decline of a parent with Alzheimer's. All these writers wrestle with Jewish texts while growing as rabbis, as feminists, and as interfaith leaders. They open their hearts and minds, telling when Jewish tradition has helped make meaning and, on occasion, when it has come up empty. The results are sometimes inspiring, sometimes provocative."--Publisher's web site
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199).
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All the days of our lives (Psalm 27:4). A life with things / Vanessa L. Ochs ; On raising a son : one mother's search for wisdom / Hara E. Person ; Between sisters / Ellen M. Umansky ; The face under the huppah : relating to my closest stranger / Nancy Fuchs Kreimer ; Loving our mothers / Vivian Mayer ; Portals to sacred family life / Julie Greenberg
From the narrow places (Psalm 118:5). "Sing, o barren one" : ambushed by a hysterectomy at age twenty-six / Ellen Frankel ; El na refa na la : please, God, heal my daughter! / Amy Eilberg ; Facing pain, facing my fears / Ruth H. Sohn ; My mother as a ruined city : insights fro the Book of Lamentations / Rachel Adler ; Wrestling with God and evil / Judith Plaskow
Opening the gates (Psalm 118:19). In the right time : reflections on an abortion / Sue Levi Elwell ; My life as a talking horse : hybridity and gender equaity as Jewish values / Wendy Zierler ; My interfaith friendships : blessings and challenges / Blu Greenberg ; The remembrance of these things : war, occupation, parsley, bitter herb / Margaret Holub
Be still and know (Psalm 46:10). Shattering and rebirth : my midlife gap year / Dayle A. Friedman ; Letting go and drawing close / Laura Geller ; Leaving Egypt again : aging with awareness / Sheila Peltz Weinberg ; A heart so broken it melts like water / Barbara Eve Breitman ; With the song of songs in our hearts / Tamara Cohn Eskenazi.
From the narrow places (Psalm 118:5). "Sing, o barren one" : ambushed by a hysterectomy at age twenty-six / Ellen Frankel ; El na refa na la : please, God, heal my daughter! / Amy Eilberg ; Facing pain, facing my fears / Ruth H. Sohn ; My mother as a ruined city : insights fro the Book of Lamentations / Rachel Adler ; Wrestling with God and evil / Judith Plaskow
Opening the gates (Psalm 118:19). In the right time : reflections on an abortion / Sue Levi Elwell ; My life as a talking horse : hybridity and gender equaity as Jewish values / Wendy Zierler ; My interfaith friendships : blessings and challenges / Blu Greenberg ; The remembrance of these things : war, occupation, parsley, bitter herb / Margaret Holub
Be still and know (Psalm 46:10). Shattering and rebirth : my midlife gap year / Dayle A. Friedman ; Letting go and drawing close / Laura Geller ; Leaving Egypt again : aging with awareness / Sheila Peltz Weinberg ; A heart so broken it melts like water / Barbara Eve Breitman ; With the song of songs in our hearts / Tamara Cohn Eskenazi.
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