Rereading Israel: The Spirit of the Matter

by Bonna Devora Haberman

Overview

Setting aside vitriolic debates and worn postures, Rereading Israel refreshes current conversations about Israel, opening Jewish sources to interpret Israel in critical, innovative, and inspiring ways. The book presents readers with an opportunity to engage ethically, intellectually, and emotionally, challenging them to apply the resources at their disposal to grapple honestly and creatively with land and people, history, text, and spirit. This consideration invites those who read into a deep exploration of their roles and their relationships to the destiny of a profoundly human and unfinished sacred project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789655241242
Publisher:	Urim Publications
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bonna Devora Haberman is the founder and former director of the Mistabra Institute for Textual Activism at Brandeis University, and a former lecturer at Harvard University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has helped initiate a movement for women’s public participation and leadership in Judaism and also codirects YTheater, an Israeli-Palestinian theater project.

Table of Contents

1 The Zion Cycle 7

2 Body and Mind 20

3 A Home-Building Project 43

4 (Re)Entering the Garden 76

5 Sacred Action 113

6 Inner Fires: Parallel Cases 132

7 Journeying Onward 155

Editorial Reviews

"[A] highly original book . . . . At once brisk and spiritual, Rereading Israel finds inspiration . . . for the construction of a mature, fulfilled Jewish nation state."  —Times of Israel

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