Torah Told Different - Ramer, Andrew

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Résumé :
What Dorothy discovered in Oz and Alice discovered in Wonderland you'll discover here: a parallel reality where a third temple rose and fell in antiquity, women were ordained in the fifth century CE, and alternate sages and texts ripple in and out of the ones we know from history. This work of midrash, interpretive stories, opens with: Before God began to create anything, before there was heaven or earth, night or day, good or bad, in or out, up or down, God said, I must create Myself. and heads toward its conclusion with: It was late afternoon. Tirzah, the designated messiah for our planet, was sitting in her study, up in sixth heaven. These are two of the ways in which this book is different. Liturgist and midrash writer Andrew Ramer not only reinvents Jewish history. He also reinvents his own family, the Talmud, and the Hebrew Bible, adding excerpts from texts by some of our ancient women sages, inviting you to ask yourself, What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? What grounds me and guides me in our tradition? And what gives me hope and dreams in a troubled world of trembling possibilities?

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Andrew Ramer, who now goes by the name Eli, is the author of Two Flutes Playing, Two Hearts Dancing, Revelations for a New Millennium, Queering the Text, and co-author of the international best seller Ask Your Angels. Born in Elmhurst, New York, across the street from an amusement park called Fairyland, he now lives in Oakland, California, up the street from an amusement park called Fairyland. You can read more about his work at andrewramer.com....