Rabbi Tirzah Firestone is the author of the highly acclaimed With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith and is a psychotherapist as well as the founding rabbi of the Jewish Renewal Congregation of Boulder, Colorado. Firestone teaches and lectures nationally on Jewish spirituality. She lives in Boulder with her husband, David, and their three children.
"The book that I've waited for all my life...Firestone has brought through a great blessing for us all." -- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Journey to God"Rabbi Tirzah Firestone has given us a gift...the history of religious experience is enriched, and so are we." -- Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent"A groundbreaking book on Kabbalah and the inner life .... This invaluable book will lead men and women to wholeness." -- Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, author of From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision for Growing Older"Rabbi Firestone has written a very important book...This is a liberation of the voices of Jewish women." -- Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man"Incisive and thought-provoking" -- Booklist"[Firestone] writes convincingly of the power of the feminine to enrich and uplift the world." -- Publishers Weekly"...has the solidity of an academic work, [Firestone's] crystalline prose carries a warmth that makes it accessible to all." -- Rocky Mountain News"Whatever their religious background, readers with inquisitive spirits are likely to be both entertained and enlightened by The Receiving." -- --Clay Evans, Boulder Daily Camera"Firestone is a talented writer....She is also an excellent psychotherapist and has delved deeply into Kabbala and Jewish mysticism..." -- --The Jerusalem Post
The astonishing stories of seven remarkable but almost unknown Jewish women form the centerpiece of this treatise on feminine spirituality. Mystics, sages, prayer leaders and miracle workers, the women lived in the second to 20th centuries, in countries from Germany to Kurdistan. Their recorded legacies survived precisely because they bypassed feminine norms. Firestone, a rabbi and psychotherapist, chose the women based on their abilities to bring life into balance, uniting opposites (practical/spiritual; purpose/action) to achieve wholeness. Each woman's story serves further as a springboard for exploring an aspect of Kabbalah, which literally means "the receiving." Wholeness, says Firestone, is "alive" in this mystical Jewish path that "not only acknowledges the feminine aspects of life, but also the fact that neither the human world nor God can be whole without the marriage of its masculine and feminine parts." To help contemporary women apply the mystical approach to their lives today, she includes practical teachings and techniques. Firestone argues for being connected to "one's fire and sensual wisdom," claiming that the subordination of the body to the spirit has created an "unhealed schism" and a disparagement of women. She admits beginning the book in anger at the ways women have been "devalued and omitted," but as she immersed herself in the women's lives, she says, she found their "determination and positive attitude contagious." Though Firestone's plea for wholeness can become repetitious, she writes convincingly of the power of the feminine to enrich and uplift the world. (Feb.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
"The book that I've waited for all my life...Firestone has brought through a great blessing for us all." -- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Journey to God"Rabbi Tirzah Firestone has given us a gift...the history of religious experience is enriched, and so are we." -- Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent"A groundbreaking book on Kabbalah and the inner life .... This invaluable book will lead men and women to wholeness." -- Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, author of From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision for Growing Older"Rabbi Firestone has written a very important book...This is a liberation of the voices of Jewish women." -- Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man"Incisive and thought-provoking" -- Booklist"[Firestone] writes convincingly of the power of the feminine to enrich and uplift the world." -- Publishers Weekly"...has the solidity of an academic work, [Firestone's] crystalline prose carries a warmth that makes it accessible to all." -- Rocky Mountain News"Whatever their religious background, readers with inquisitive spirits are likely to be both entertained and enlightened by The Receiving." -- --Clay Evans, Boulder Daily Camera"Firestone is a talented writer....She is also an excellent psychotherapist and has delved deeply into Kabbala and Jewish mysticism..." -- --The Jerusalem Post
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