The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580233708 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ilene CooperCopyright © American Library Association. The women rabbis give new life to ancient sisters. These rabbis try to understand the writings in a new way. In this book, women rabbis write their own commentaries on the 54 Torah portions. Other women become "skilled apologists," fixing the blame on the reader not on the Bible itself. With sometimes very little to work with, the rabbis "write ourselves in, reinterpret ourselves in, or critique our absence." Throughout, the ideas raised are wo
Goldstein lectures frequently throughout North America. Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, one of the leading rabbis of a new generation, is director of Kolel: The Adult Center for Liberal Jewish Learning, a full-time progressive adult Jewish learning center. She is also editor of The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights fro
Mona B. said Feminist analysis in dazzling variety. Is part of your Sabbath preparation or observance picking up a book and reading a short (5-10 minute) essay about the parasha of the week --- or would you like it to be? If so The Women's Torah Commentary (Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, ed., Jewish Lights, "Feminist analysis in dazzling variety" according to Mona B.. Is part of your Sabbath preparation or observance picking up a book and reading a short (5-10 minute) essay about the parasha of the week --- or would you like it to be? If so The Women's Torah Commentary (Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, ed., Jewish Lights, 2000) may be just what you could use. The book has 5Feminist analysis in dazzling variety Mona B. Is part of your Sabbath preparation or observance picking up a book and reading a short (5-10 minute) essay about the parasha of the week --- or would you like it to be? If so The Women's Torah Commentary (Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, ed., Jewish Lights, 2000) may be just what you could use. The book has 54 essays --- one for each Torah portion. Each essay in this anthology is written by a different ordained woman Rabbi, or one who. essays --- one for each Torah portion. Each essay in this anthology is written by a different ordained woman Rabbi, or one who. 000) may be just what you could use. The book has 5Feminist analysis in dazzling variety Mona B. Is part of your Sabbath preparation or observance picking up a book and reading a short (5-10 minute) essay about the parasha of the week --- or would you like it to be? If so The Women's Torah Commentary (Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, ed., Jewish Lights, 2000) may be just what you could use. The book has 54 essays --- one for each Torah portion. Each essay in this anthology is written by a different ordained woman Rabbi, or one who. essays --- one for each Torah portion. Each essay in this anthology is written by a different ordained woman Rabbi, or one who. The must-buy for any Bat Mitzvah and everyone else When you picture a rabbi, do you picture a young, beardless, mother of three? You should. As Rabbi Goldstein writes in the introduction, Abraham Geiger wrote in 1837 that "our whole religious life will profit from the beneficial influence which feminine hearts will bestow upon it." Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, a 1983 HUC-JIR grad, is the leader of the Kolel Adult Center for Liberal Jewish Learning program in Toronto , a program tha. Thoughtful, complex, scholarly, fascinating analysis. Midwest Book Review The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights From Women Rabbis On The 54 Weekly Torah Portions is a massive compendium of interpretations by more than fifty female rabbis that substantially broadens the scope of a true understanding of the sacred text of the Torah. Scarcely a generation (30 years) ago it was unheard of for women to be ordained as rabbis; now a comprehensive, extensive, and exhaustive commentary contains their p
Discover how their interpretations of the Torah can enrich your perspective. Frishman • Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer • Shoshana Gelfand • Laura Geller • Elyse M. Included are commentaries by the first women ever ordained in the Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative movements, and by many other women across these denominations who serve in the rabbinate in a variety of ways. Contributing Rabbis: Rebecca T. Sohn • Julie Ringold Spitzer z”l • Shira Stern • Pamela Wax • Nancy Wechsler-Azen • Nancy H. Edwards • Amy Eilberg • Sue Levi Elwell • Rachel Esserman • Helaine Ettinger • Susan Fendrick • Lori Forman • Dayle A. "Rich and engaging…makes available to a wide readership the collective wisdom of women who have changed the face of Judaism." Judith Plaskow, author, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective; Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College Here, for the first time, women's unique experiences and perspectives a