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Wisdom of love man, woman & God in Jewish Canonical literature / by Rothenberg, Naftali

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Seyder tkhines the forgotten book of common prayer for Jewish women /

Table of Contents: “…Introducing tkhines -- Profit and prayer: women and a unique pan-European printing industry -- The Seyder tkhines: a book for a messianic age -- Seyder tkhines: definitions -- Side by side by seyder -- A rare manuscript lost and found: Book of tkhines for a pregnant woman -- Other Yiddish prayers and religious songs and their authors -- Seyder tkhines in the twenty-first century: the messianic inheritance -- Prayers in translation. …”
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The house of secrets the hidden world of the mikveh / by Polak-Sahm, Varda

Table of Contents: “…The place -- The balaniyot -- A dose of impurity -- Blood and banishment -- Purity and sexuality -- Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority -- Between a woman and God -- Between man and wife.…”
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Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue / by Brooten, Bernadette J.

Table of Contents: “…Women as Heads of Synagogues -- Woman as Leader -- Women as Elders -- Women as Mothers of the Synagogue -- Women as Priests -- Did the Ancient Synagogue Have a Women's Gallery or Separate Women's Section? …”
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A Jewish life on three continents the memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden / by Frieden, Menachem Mendel, 1878-1963

Table of Contents: “…Menachem Mendel Frieden's apologia -- My father's family -- My mother's family -- My father's house -- Me and my youth -- My entry into heder -- On my way through yeshivot -- Passover and the holiday cycle -- More yeshiva studies -- I study with rabbis -- Matchmakers and marriage -- America -- I found the best woman -- My journey to the land of Israel and my early activities there -- The work of Americans in the land of Israel and my role in it -- More on life in the land of Israel -- Travels, the era of World War II, and illness -- A second trip to the United States -- Afterword : Menachem Mendel Frieden's journal and his life after 1947.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter by Klein-Braslavy, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. …”
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