House of Secrets The Hidden World of the Mikveh

Name: House of Secrets The Hidden World of the Mikveh
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ISBN: 9780807077467

ISBN-10: 0807077461

ISBN-13: 9780807077467

Edition: 2011

Authors: Varda Polak-Sahm

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The first inside look at the experiences of women who visit traditional mikvehs For Orthodox Jews, immersion in the mikveh is the cornerstone of family life. Jewish women must visit this ritual bath before marriage and monthly after menstruation before resuming marital relations. 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 of purity, sexuality, and fertility. Her uncensored firsthand account of an experience that is for some holy and for others…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 9/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.20" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Prologue



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


Epilogue


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Hebrew Bibliography


English Bibliography


Index