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Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women by Chava Weissler
lizshayne's review
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I had totally meant to finish this earlier, but then my class happened and then the 15 other things I needed to do happened and, all in all, I obviously finished it on Yom Kippur.
Super-interesting. I landed in the rationalist/soloveitchikian modern orthodox jewish world without any older observant relatives so my knowledge of tkhines is particularly small, but it was fascinating to listen to Weissler discuss these texts and, wonder of wonders, talk about their meaning for her as a jewish woman not just reading them but thinking about her own spirituality.
Super-interesting. I landed in the rationalist/soloveitchikian modern orthodox jewish world without any older observant relatives so my knowledge of tkhines is particularly small, but it was fascinating to listen to Weissler discuss these texts and, wonder of wonders, talk about their meaning for her as a jewish woman not just reading them but thinking about her own spirituality.
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