[PDF.47lr] The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh

The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh

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 | #3025690 in Books |  2009-08-01 |  2009-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.80 x1.00 x5.70l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A privileged look......from a distance.|By J. Korber|A very intimate look into a world completely forbidden to non-Jews, it was something about which I always wondered. I'm grateful to Ms. Sahm for allowing me to go where no Christian has gone before, and I certainly don't mean for this to be disrespectful. Judaism is filled with wonderful rites and rituals, something I feel| |“Polak-Sahm mesmerizes the reader with her encounters at the mikveh...brilliantly illuminates these tensions and their religious and cultural meanings, not just intellectually but, like all good anthropologists, in a way that produces a rich un

For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath—the mikveh—is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women’s practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent the mikveh, often for surprising personal reasons. Roused by her own immersion experience, for years Varda Polak-Sahm, a secular Jew, patiently observed and interviewed women at the mikveh, gaining unprecedented access to this hidden world. The House ...

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