The Choosing : a Rabbi's Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days.

By:

Myers, Andrea

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813550954
0813550955
9780813549576
0813549574
1283383349
9781283383349

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Choosing : A Rabbi's Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days.DDC classification:

296.61086643 296.714092273

LOC classification:

BM755 .M94 .A3 2011

Online resources:

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Contents:

Rosh Hashanah: bird in hand -- The secular new year: happy new year -- The new year for trees: the lance and the twig -- The new year for animals: because no one is allergic to butterflies -- Sukkot: wild turkey -- Hanukkah: miller light -- Purim: surprise endings -- Passover: I'll be home for Passover -- Lag B'omer: the work of the chariot -- Shavuot: take two tablets -- Tisha B'av: broken sound -- Elul: hit-or-mitzvah -- Purim Katan: calendar girls.

Summary: In The Choosing, Andrea Myers fuses heartwarming anecdotes with rabbinic insights and humor to describe what it means to survive and flourish on your own terms. Portioned around the cycle of the Jewish year, with stories connected to each of the holidays, Myers draws on her unique path to the rabbinate-leaving behind her Christian upbringing, coming out as a lesbian, discovering Judaism in college, moving to Israel, converting, and returning to New York to become a rabbi, partner, and parent.

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In The Choosing, Andrea Myers fuses heartwarming anecdotes with rabbinic insights and humor to describe what it means to survive and flourish on your own terms. Portioned around the cycle of the Jewish year, with stories connected to each of the holidays, Myers draws on her unique path to the rabbinate-leaving behind her Christian upbringing, coming out as a lesbian, discovering Judaism in college, moving to Israel, converting, and returning to New York to become a rabbi, partner, and parent.