Research Catalog

Title

Bringing home the light : a Jewish woman's handbook of rituals / E.M. Broner.

Author

Broner, E. M.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Council Oak Books, 1999.

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Details

Description

ix, 225 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Women, particularly Jewish women, have been at the forefront of the movement to embrace the nurturing ceremony of sacred traditions, while at the same time boldly challenging and adapting them to reflect the true parameters of contemporary lives and contributions. In her new handbook, Professor Broner brings together all of the ceremonial texts she has pioneered for celebrating the sacred passages of women's lives through the historic customs of the traditional jewish holidays. Professor Broner's rituals have been developed through years of experimentation and collaboration with some of the most creative and brilliant women of modern times. With this accessible handbook, Broner brings a new generation of thinking, seeking Jewish women into that circle of light, and offers them a script for gathering their sisters and families closer into that circle as well. Organized around the seasonal Jewish holy days, this volume provides both the framework and the story of each ritual's revision, along with eloquent new prayers and psalms and revised sacred texts for reciting (or better, adapting) and suggested settings and symbolic tools. Within all this, Broner weaves her elegant insights on the meaning and necessity of ritual in our lives. Inspired by and describing actual occasions in real women's lives, Bringing Home the Light will inspire other women to craft appropriate rituals of their own for honoring and celebrating wisdom and triumph, change and loss, and the giving and receiving of blessings the year round.

Subject

• Jewish women > Religious life
• Judaism > Customs and practices
• Fasts and feasts > Judaism
• Fasts and feasts > Judaism
• Jewish women > Religious life
• Judaism > Customs and practices
• Ritus
• Brauch
• Judentum
• Frau

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-225).

Contents

Autumn. Cleansing Rituals. Rituals of Shelter. Ritual for the Female Face of God -- Winter. Chanukah. Rituals of Movement. Rituals of Celebration and Honor -- Spring. Rituals of Community. Rituals for Peace -- Summer. Rituals of Healing. Rituals of Loss. Moon Rituals/Rituals of the Body. Rituals at the Wall. Rituals of Age.

ISBN

• 157178084X
• 9781571780843

LCCN

99032282

OCLC

• ocm41368368
• 41368368
• SCSB-866600

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library