Mikveh
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Author | : Varda Polak-Sahm |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807077429 |
The first inside look at the experiences of women who visit traditional mikvehs-ritual baths used to achieve purityFor Orthodox Jews, immersion in the mikveh-a ritual cleansing bath for women based on purity laws-is the cornerstone of family life. All Orthodox women must immerse in the mikveh before marriage, and Ashkenazi women must immerse every month after their menstrual cycle before sexual relations with their husbands may resume. But while the mikveh has been a tool for the exclusion of women, it has also, surprisingly, become an instrument of women's power-a place men cannot enter and thus cannot control.Roused by her own experiences of immersion, for eleven years Varda Polak-Sahm patiently observed and interviewed Jewish women using the mikveh, gaining unprecedented access to the entirely hidden feminine culture and sensual atmosphere within traditional mikvehs. The result is a richly nuanced, uncensored look at an experience that is for some holy and for others coercive. The House of Secretsgives voice to women from all branches of Judaism as they open up about what the mikveh means to them; how it fits in with their attitudes toward religion; its effect on their marriages and families as well as on their sexual, physical, and spiritual self-perception and on their relationship with God.Already widely praised in Israel, this English translation provides a firsthand account of the power of ritual immersion for the growing number of American Jews interested in reclaiming this practice.
Author | : Blu Greenberg |
Publisher | : Jewish Publication Society of America |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780827611597 |
A classic for more than 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.
Author | : Susan G. Solomon |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 161168868X |
In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Author | : Rivkah Slonim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Total Immersion will at once educate those who are unfamiliar with the Mikvah ritual, inspire those who have, thus far, been hesitant to make this rite their own, and will reveal the blessing it bestows upon those who immerse themselves in its waters.
Author | : Levy Daniella |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789659254002 |
This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.
Author | : Schneur Zalman Lesches |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Jewish law |
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Author | : Mike Mason |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1525512218 |
Jesus: His Story in Stone is a reflection on still-existing stone objects that Jesus would have known, seen, or even touched. Each of the seventy short chapters is accompanied by a photograph taken on location in Israel. Arranged chronologically, the one-page meditations compose a portrait of Christ as seen through the significant stones in His life, from the cave where He was born to the rock of Calvary. While packed with historical and archaeological detail, the book’s main thrust is devotional, leading the reader both spiritually and physically closer to Jesus.
Author | : Tehilla Abramov |
Publisher | : Taschen |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Jewish women |
ISBN | : 9781568713519 |
Author | : Aryeh Kaplan |
Publisher | : Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America/National Conference of Synagogue Youth |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
"It has been called the secret of Jewish survival - a mystical connection to the Garden of Eden. What is the Mikvah's fundamental connection to birth, marriage conversaion and death? How does a Mikvah purify? How can a proper understanding of Mikvah bring happiness, freshness and fulfillment to your life? Waters of Eden is a revealing book that explores old myths and prejudices and offers insights never before available to the English reading public. The author Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, gathers concepts from the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, Kabbalah, Zohar, Rashi, Rambam, Ba'al Hatanya, Hirsch and many others.. Waters of Eden is the first attempt to explore the ancient Jewish practice of spiritual purification and immersion, lucidly and attractively in contemporary English." -- Back cover
Author | : Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1909 |
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