Challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets ancient texts, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision-a "revision"-of the Torah. Boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context while honestly reconciling its past.
Challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets ancient texts, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision-a "revision"-of the Torah. Boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context while honestly reconciling its past.
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. Goldstein lectures frequently throughout North America. She is also editor of The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions; and The Women's Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot and Special Shabbatot; and author of the award-winning New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future and ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens (all Jewish Lights). Rabbi Elyse Goldstein is available to speak on the following topics: * Women and Judaism * Reform Judaism * Jewish Parenting * General Judaica
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Acknowledgments Foreword by Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg Introduction PART I. Women in the Torah Introduction Power and Powerlessness Male and Female Were They Created: Eve, Lilith and the Snake Leah and Rachel: A Study in Relationships The Women of the Exodus Story: A Study in Community The Daughters of Tzelophehad PART II. Blood and Water: The Stuff of Life Introduction Blood and Its Symbolism in the Torah Menstruation and the Laws of Niddah A Jewish Feminist Reexamination of Menstruation Blood and Men: A Feminist Look at Brit Milah Women and Water in the Torah A Feminist Reexamination of Mikveh PART III. God, Goddess, Gender and the Torah Introduction Searching for the Female Spirit in the Torah Female Imagery and Paganism The Place of the Goddess and Shekhinah in Judaism God-Language Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading Index
Acknowledgments Foreword by Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg Introduction PART I. Women in the Torah Introduction Power and Powerlessness Male and Female Were They Created: Eve, Lilith and the Snake Leah and Rachel: A Study in Relationships The Women of the Exodus Story: A Study in Community The Daughters of Tzelophehad PART II. Blood and Water: The Stuff of Life Introduction Blood and Its Symbolism in the Torah Menstruation and the Laws of Niddah A Jewish Feminist Reexamination of Menstruation Blood and Men: A Feminist Look at Brit Milah Women and Water in the Torah A Feminist Reexamination of Mikveh PART III. God, Goddess, Gender and the Torah Introduction Searching for the Female Spirit in the Torah Female Imagery and Paganism The Place of the Goddess and Shekhinah in Judaism God-Language Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading Index
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