Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Ritual - Hardcover

Broner, E.M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157178084X ISBN 13: 9781571780843

Publisher: Council Oak Books, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"She frees the rituals from their matrix, so we can all see and use and enjoy them."

About the Author:

E. M. Broner, Ph.D. 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 University in Israel; and is Professor Emerita at Wayne State University's Department of English.

About this edition

• Publisher: Council Oak Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 157178084X
• ISBN 13: 9781571780843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240