Bringing Home the Light a Jewish Woman's: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Ritual [Hardcover]

E.M. Broner (Author)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Council Oak (Oct 1 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 157178084X
ISBN-13: 978-1571780843
Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,181,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism > Women and Judaism

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Ceremonial words and scenarios based in the stories and traditions of sacred Jewish rituals, for women seeking to celebrate their lives and religious heritage. Many women have in recent years reclaimed the beloved seder ceremony of their childhoods, inspired by the groundbreaking Women's Haggadah originally pubished in Ms. Magazine. Now E.M. Broner, co-author of that Haggadah and an eloquent authority on the meaning and necessity of ritual in our lives, summons her vast experience in creating and adapting traditional Jewish ritual and ceremonial texts to create this unique spiritual sourcebook. Elegantly weaving personal memoir and community experience, poetic recitation, and practical suggestions, Bringing Home the Light offers thinking, seeking Jewish women an accessible handbook for bringing ritual and ceremony back into their lives, whether celebrating the traditional Jewish holy days or creating a sacred, empowering ritual around an important passage in their lives as women.

Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff said that in ritual, "one takes the chaos of the world ... and pours it into a vessel that gives it shape, order and form." In Bringing Home the Light, Esther Broner describes many such "vessels," by which she and other women have crafted and adapted rituals for honoring and celebrating wisdom and triumph, change and loss, and the giving and receiving of blessings the year round.

About the Author

E.M. Broner, Ph.D. is the author of nine books, including A Weave of Women, Mornings and Mourning: A Kaddish Journal, The Telling and Her Mothers and is co-author of The Women's Haggadah. Her work has appeared in numerous national publications, including Ms. Magazine, Women's Review of Literature, North American Review, Mother Jones, The Nation and Tikkun.

A passionate advocate for a Jewish faith that embraces and celebrates inclusively, Dr. Broner has taken her belief in the power of ritual observance around the world, performing peace ceremonies in the Sinai Desert and on the White House lawn; a ceremony of reconciliation between African-American and Jewish women in Berkeley; and a techina, or women's prayer, at a UN event in Nairobi.

The winner of two National Endowments for the Arts, E.M. Broner has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, UCLA, Columbia University, Ohio State University, CUNY-City College; served as visiting professor at Oberlin, Tulane University and Haifa Univeristy in Israel; and is Professor Emerita at Wayne State University's Department of English. She lives in New York City with her husband, the artist Robert Broner.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing home the light a jewish womans book of ritual., Jun 9 2009

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This review is from: Bringing Home the Light a Jewish Woman's: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Ritual (Hardcover)

This was an interesting book. This book was read by my wife.
She said that the healing rituals were quite good and also the rituals of loss of a loved one.
She said that the book is divided into spring summer fall and winter
Moon Rituals and Rituals at the wall, among others.
She said that it is very Feminist, Wicca New Age in format, and is much like books written in that genere. Although she was looking for more of a traditional view she found the book quite good.

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