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| The Torah: A Women's Commentary | 
 enlarge | Author: Edited By Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi And Rabbi Andrea Weiss
Publisher: URJ Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 16290
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.7 x 1.8
ISBN: 0807410810
Dewey Decimal Number: 222.1077082
EAN: 9780807410813
ASIN: 0807410810
Publication Date: December 10, 2007
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Good Book April 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What I have read so far has proved informative and interesting for my study of the Bible.
 first only eve's commentary of the Creation March 4, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
the first time in the Torah, Bible, Jewish history : women can think and write all the commentary. Great scholars and rabbies and historians! The best way to improve your jewishness and your feminism
A treasure February 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This awesome labor of love combines Torah text, commentary, contemporary reflections, poetry (and more.) Because it focuses on the role of women (or their absence) in Torah, it provides a long needed pathway for women to enter into the biblical world and the teachings of a text that has played so great a part in shaping our views of our relationship with the Divine, and each other. Inside it is beautiful in every sense. It deserved a cover more commensurate with that beauty, but why quibble.
Buy it for every Jewish woman and girl you love. (What an extraordinary Bat Mitzvah present!)
Women's torah commentary February 15, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
What an exciting addition to the growing resources for women in Jewish studies. The contributors are a who's who of Jewish women scholars and interpreters. This book will be so useful for anyone wanting to open their mind to new interpretations of texts.
Worth the Wait and More January 12, 2008
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn and Andrea L. Weiss, editors. "The Torah: A Women's Commentary", Union of Reform Judaism Press and Women of Reform Judaism, 2008.
Worth the Wait and More
Amos Lassen
I just received my review copy of "The Torah: A Women's Commentary" and I could not wait to have a good look at it. It is one of those books that one look is not quite enough. This is commentary to be cherished--beautiful in every aspect. Physically this is a gorgeous book and if I have anything negative to say it is that I wish the cover would match the beauty of what is inside The cover is fine and I applaud the green color. I just wish that it was a bit more luxurious, maybe leather.
The Torah is the Jewish religion's most sacred text and it has brought forth numerous commentaries through the ages. Some of these are almost as respected as the text itself, even though up until now commentaries have been "somewhat" misogynistic. Those days are over with this volume which will, in my mind, find its place among the other commentaries. And let me say from the start--this is not a commentary for just women; it is a commentary for all of us. In the past and for generations, men have written the commentaries. Now we have fresh new voices which bring new ideas and new ways of thinking.
I recently brought my commentary with me to my weekly Torah study at Temple B'nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkansas and as we read the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 12, I followed along with an open mind and was amazed to see how much this commentary gave answers to some of the questions we discussed.
The women's commentary has been in the making for 15 years and it was worth the wait. The writing is scholarly and provides post-Biblical discussions and interpretations of the Five Books of Moses. To reflect on the Torah in contemporary terms brings new ideas to the fore and here is a book filled with new ideas on a text that dates back some 5000 years. The commentary is easy to use (I did not want to use the term user-friendly) and provides wonderful insight. The design is beautiful (have I used that word before? It is probably because I am so taken with it) and it is destined to become a great asset to the field of scholarship on Biblical thought.
I recently wrote my own commentary of the portion "Eikev" and I was anxious to see how much, or how little, the women and I were aligned. I felt that if I had had this at the time I wrote mine it would have been so much fuller and meaningful. (Remember that song from "Hello Dolly!", "It Takes a Women"? Believe me the women that worked on this commentary have given us a lot to think about.
Of course there is no commentary on the Torah that will answer all of the questions that might arise. The beauty of the Torah is that it allows us to draw our own conclusions. It is always good to have a guide to work within and I found the women's commentary to provide such a guide. It is quite simply a wonderful source for study. One of the new aspects of this work also is the section entitled "Voices" that accompanies each Torah portion. The poetry included in this section is exceptional and a pleasure to read. In short, the entire book is a pleasure to read and great fun too.
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