The Sabbath Bee: Love Songs to Shabbat Contributor(s): Gottschalk, Wilhelmina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934730696 ISBN-13: 9781934730690 Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Rituals & Practice - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious |
Series: Jewish Poetry Project |
Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5" W x 8" (0.23 lbs) 90 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Shabbat arrives as usual,
"Torah, say our sages, has seventy faces. As these prose poems reveal, so too does Shabbat. Here we meet Shabbat as familiar housemate, as the child whose presence transforms a family (sometimes in ways that outsiders can't understand), as a spreading tree, as an annoying friend who insists on being celebrated, as a child throwing water balloons, as a woman, as a man, as a bee, as the ocean... Through the lens of these deft, surprising, moving prose poems, all seventy of Shabbat's faces shine." Rachel Barenblat, author, The Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah and Texts to the Holy |