
Chapters of the Heart
Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 1. November 2013
Book
Hardback
226 pages
978-1-4982-1503-9 (ISBN)
Description
Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives 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. Readers will find new insights into God, into Judaism, and into themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
527 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-1503-9 (9781498215039)
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Sue Levi Elwell | Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
Chapters of the Heart
Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives
E-Book
11/2013
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€26.49
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Persons
Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, who works for the Reform movement as a congregational consultant, edited Lesbian Rabbis (2001) and The Open Door (2002). Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer is the founding director of the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She blogs at www.multifaithworld.org/ and is the author of Parenting as a Spiritual Journey (1998).