Review
If there is a clear role for Out of the Depths I Call to You , it is as a heartfelt gift for a newly pregnant friend. This elegant, slim volume is an English translation (plus full Hebrew text) of an 18th-century Italian woman's prayer book. Cardinstumbled upon the original (a gold-embossed antiquity dedicated to a woman named Yehudit Kutscher Coen) while wandering around inhaling leather in the Rare Book Room fo the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary... There are even instructions for the childbirth coach: When a woman attends at the birth of a friend's child she must show great devotion. She cannot allow trivial conversation or an obscene or malicious word...She must encourage the woman in labor to make a vow to perform some mitzvah, for example, spinning wool for tzitzit (prayershawl fringe), making wicks for usei n the synagogue, washing tallitot (prayershawls), or being punctilious in observing Rosh Hodesh (the new moon).. (Lillith )
In 1786, Giuseppe Coen presented his bride with an exquisite gift: a book of psalms, blessings, and prayers. The volume focused on the concerns of the married woman, in particular her responsibility to create a Jewish home and bear children. In
Out of the Depths I Call to You: A Book of Prayers for the Married Jewish Woman , Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin translates these prayers and provides insightful commentary, bringing to light the essence of Jewish women's liturgical and ritual experiences that have long been overlooked by scholars. By doing so she believes, "We can more authentically and authoritatively craft for the modern Jewish woman responses to religious moments so egregiously overlooked in mainstream Judaism." (Women's League Outlook )
If there is a clear role for
Out of the Depths I Call to You , it is as a heartfelt gift for a newly pregnant friend. This elegant, slim volume is an English translation (plus full Hebrew text) of an 18th-century Italian woman's prayer book. Cardin stumbled upon the original (a gold-embossed antiquity dedicated to a woman named Yehudit Kutscher Coen) while wandering around inhaling leather in the Rare Book Room fo the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary... There are even instructions for the childbirth coach: "When a woman attends at the birth of a friend's child she must show great devotion. She cannot allow trivial conversation or an obscene or malicious word...She must encourage the woman in labor to make a vow to perform some mitzvah, for example, spinning wool for
tzitzit (prayershawl fringe), making wicks for usei n the synagogue, washing
tallitot (prayershawls), or being punctilious in observing
Rosh Hodesh (the new moon). (Lillith )
Language Notes
Text: English, Hebrew (translation)
Original Language: Hebrew
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
