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Author : Gershon Winkler
Release : 1991
Genre : Jewish fiction
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Book Synopsis They Called Her Rebbe, the Maiden of Ludomir by : Gershon Winkler
Download or read book They Called Her Rebbe, the Maiden of Ludomir written by Gershon Winkler. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Deutsch
Release : 2003-10-06
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 974/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Maiden of Ludmir by : Nathaniel Deutsch
Download or read book The Maiden of Ludmir written by Nathaniel Deutsch. This book was released on 2003-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe—or charismatic leader—in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden’s place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity. History first finds the Maiden in the eastern European town of Ludmir, venerated by her followers as a master of the Kabbalah, teacher, and visionary, and accused by her detractors of being possessed by a dybbuk, or evil spirit. Deutsch traces the Maiden’s steps from Ludmir to Ottoman Palestine, where she eventually immigrated and re-established herself as a holy woman. While the Maiden’s story—including her adamant refusal to marry—recalls the lives of holy women in other traditions, it also brings to light the largely unwritten history of early-modern Jewish women. To this day, her transgressive behavior, a challenge to traditional Jewish views of gender and sexuality, continues to inspire debate and, sometimes, censorship within the Jewish community.
Author : Tirzah Firestone
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Receiving by : Tirzah Firestone
Download or read book The Receiving written by Tirzah Firestone. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly respected rabbi, therapist, and teacher restores women's spiritual lineage to Judaism and empowers women to reclaim their rightful connection to Jewish teachings, Kabbalah, and to their own spiritual wisdom.
Author : Phyllis Chesler
Release : 2013-07-02
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 355/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women of the Wall by : Phyllis Chesler
Download or read book Women of the Wall written by Phyllis Chesler. This book was released on 2013-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality “Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women.” —from the In Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for Jewish people, is under the religious authority of the Orthodox rabbinate. Women have only limited rights to practice Jewish ritual in its precincts. This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United States, and other parts of the world—known as the Women of the Wall—to win the right to pray out loud together as a group, according to Jewish law; wear ritual objects; and read from Torah scrolls at the Western Wall. Eyewitness accounts of physical violence and intimidation, inspiring personal stories, and interpretations of legal and classical Jewish (halakhic) texts bring to life the historic and ongoing struggle that the Women of the Wall face in their everyday fight for religious and gender equality.
Author : Yitzhak Buxbaum
Release : 2002-11-08
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 959/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jewish Tales of Holy Women by : Yitzhak Buxbaum
Download or read book Jewish Tales of Holy Women written by Yitzhak Buxbaum. This book was released on 2002-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it. Stories about Jewish holy women have rarely been collected in such an engaging and entertaining form. The tales display a specifically female Jewish spirituality, giving us a peek into a world of devotional beauty that focuses on kindness. These stories of laughter and tears, humility and bravery, striving and trance, have an appeal spanning the denominational spectrum: they are spiritual nourishment for the soul. The rabbis say there are both male and female angels and angels are on earth as well as in heaven. These tales enhance our appreciation of the female angels on earth.
