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"This book cannot be pigeonholed-it evokes recognition and assent in relation to the complex experiences of being a child, being a child dealing with aging parents, being a friend and a lover, being a mother, being a (Jewish) woman at the end of the twentieth century, being a human being seeking a spiritual life. In describing her effort to live a spiritually meaningful life and to find spirituality in everyday experience, Feld names experiences shared by many women, yet seldom fully articulated, or articulated this clearly and well." - Judith Plaskow, author of Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
"From the quietness of her being, Merle Feld has written a wonderfully moving tribute to the multifaceted nature of the human soul. Her poems and stories touch something deep within me." - Blu Greenberg, author of On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition and How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
"You stop by Merle's house one morning. You have a cup of coffee with her at the kitchen table. She tells you a few of her stories. You look at your watch: it's late afternoon. Or, she brings out a poem she just finished. Your eyes fill with tears; it's Yom Kippur. Stories and poetry so captivating, powerful, wise, you will never be the same. An extraordinary achievement!" - Lawrence Kushner, author of Invisible Lines of Connection
"Merle Feld speaks honestly about the lives of all women in this deep and penetrating volume. A Spiritual Life is a delight to the mind and the heart." - Sharon Strassfeld, author of Everything I Know and coeditor of The Second Jewish Catalog: Sources and Resources
"Feld breaks new ground in spiritual autobiography-locating spiritual growth in the daily life of a daughter, wife, mother, and friend. Her distinctive voice is characterized by a simplicity and honest humility that makes the profundity of her insights all the more startling. She has a gift for making that which may seem esoteric, accessible; and that which may seem ordinary or mundane, transcendent. This book is one of a kind." - Gail Twersky Reimer, Director, Jewish Women's Archive, and coeditor of Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story
"Interweaving poems with personal reflections, Merle Feld takes the reader on a spiritual journey through well-known paths not often associated with the sacred. In search of a meaningful Jewish self-identity, she draws on her own experiences as wife, mother, and Jewishly-committed feminist, transforming everyday events into occasions for spontaneous prayer. Feld's honest, sometimes irreverent poems are witty, wise, and religiously insightful. Worthy of a wide audience, this book should be of particular interest to feminist theologians and historians; to Jewish women who, like Feld, struggle to find their place in the Jewish world; and to anyone seeking new paths towards the holy." - Ellen Umansky, coeditor of Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality: A Sourcebook
Merle Feld is an award-winning playwright and poet whose work has appeared in numerous anthologies and prayerbooks. Her plays Across the Jordan and The Gates Are Closing have been staged and read at synagogues and universities across the country and internationally.
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