The Choosing : A Rabbi's Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days
In The Choosing, Andrea Myers fuses heartwarming anecdotes with rabbinic insights and humor to describe what it means to survive and flourish on your own terms. Portioned around the cycle of the Jewish year, with stories connected to each of the holidays, Myers draws on her unique path to the rabbin...
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rosh Hashanah: bird in hand
- The secular new year: happy new year
- The new year for trees: the lance and the twig
- The new year for animals: because no one is allergic to butterflies
- Sukkot: wild turkey
- Hanukkah: miller light
- Purim: surprise endings
- Passover: I'll be home for Passover
- Lag B'omer: the work of the chariot
- Shavuot: take two tablets
- Tisha B'av: broken sound
- Elul: hit-or-mitzvah
- Purim Katan: calendar girls.