Chapters of the heart :
Chapters of the heart : Jewish women sharing the Torah of our lives /
edited by Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199).
All the days of our lives (Psalm 27:4). A life with things / On raising a son : one mother's search for wisdom / Between sisters / The face under the huppah : relating to my closest stranger / Loving our mothers / Portals to sacred family life / From the narrow places (Psalm 118:5). "Sing, o barren one" : ambushed by a hysterectomy at age twenty-six / El na refa na la : please, God, heal my daughter! / Facing pain, facing my fears / My mother as a ruined city : insights fro the Book of Lamentations / Wrestling with God and evil / Opening the gates (Psalm 118:19). In the right time : reflections on an abortion / My life as a talking horse : hybridity and gender equaity as Jewish values / My interfaith friendships : blessings and challenges / The remembrance of these things : war, occupation, parsley, bitter herb / Be still and know (Psalm 46:10). Shattering and rebirth : my midlife gap year / Letting go and drawing close / Leaving Egypt again : aging with awareness / A heart so broken it melts like water / With the song of songs in our hearts / Vanessa L. Ochs ; Hara E. Person ; Ellen M. Umansky ; Nancy Fuchs Kreimer ; Vivian Mayer ; Julie Greenberg -- Ellen Frankel ; Amy Eilberg ; Ruth H. Sohn ; Rachel Adler ; Judith Plaskow -- Sue Levi Elwell ; Wendy Zierler ; Blu Greenberg ; Margaret Holub -- Dayle A. Friedman ; Laura Geller ; Sheila Peltz Weinberg ; Barbara Eve Breitman ; Tamara Cohn Eskenazi.
"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.
9781630870294 (electronic bk.) 1630870293 (electronic bk.)
Jewish women--Religious life--Anecdotes.
Women in Judaism.
Jewish women--Religious life.
Women in Judaism.
RELIGION / Judaism / General
Anecdotes.
Electronic books.
BM726 / .C48 2013eb
296.7082
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199).
All the days of our lives (Psalm 27:4). A life with things / On raising a son : one mother's search for wisdom / Between sisters / The face under the huppah : relating to my closest stranger / Loving our mothers / Portals to sacred family life / From the narrow places (Psalm 118:5). "Sing, o barren one" : ambushed by a hysterectomy at age twenty-six / El na refa na la : please, God, heal my daughter! / Facing pain, facing my fears / My mother as a ruined city : insights fro the Book of Lamentations / Wrestling with God and evil / Opening the gates (Psalm 118:19). In the right time : reflections on an abortion / My life as a talking horse : hybridity and gender equaity as Jewish values / My interfaith friendships : blessings and challenges / The remembrance of these things : war, occupation, parsley, bitter herb / Be still and know (Psalm 46:10). Shattering and rebirth : my midlife gap year / Letting go and drawing close / Leaving Egypt again : aging with awareness / A heart so broken it melts like water / With the song of songs in our hearts / Vanessa L. Ochs ; Hara E. Person ; Ellen M. Umansky ; Nancy Fuchs Kreimer ; Vivian Mayer ; Julie Greenberg -- Ellen Frankel ; Amy Eilberg ; Ruth H. Sohn ; Rachel Adler ; Judith Plaskow -- Sue Levi Elwell ; Wendy Zierler ; Blu Greenberg ; Margaret Holub -- Dayle A. Friedman ; Laura Geller ; Sheila Peltz Weinberg ; Barbara Eve Breitman ; Tamara Cohn Eskenazi.
"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.
9781630870294 (electronic bk.) 1630870293 (electronic bk.)
Jewish women--Religious life--Anecdotes.
Women in Judaism.
Jewish women--Religious life.
Women in Judaism.
RELIGION / Judaism / General
Anecdotes.
Electronic books.
BM726 / .C48 2013eb
296.7082
