Taking Up the Timbrel: The Challenge of Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today

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Preface	p. 1
Creating Ritual	p. 7
Expanding the Borders of Prayer	p. 9
Women, Prayer and Ritual in the Bible	p. 16
Discovering Hannah: Women's Rituals in Second-Century Palestine	p. 24
Rituals of Home and Person	p. 31
Meditations for Tallit and T'fillin	p. 33
Meditations and Prayers for Use in the Mikveh	p. 37
The Little Boy Who Did Not Know How To Ask	p. 40
How To Pray When You Can't Pray	p. 52
Fertility	p. 59
A Menarche Ritual	p. 61
Simhat B'rit M'ugelet: Rejoicing in Becoming Round. A Pregnancy Ritual	p. 66
At the Moment of Birth	p. 73
Simhat Bat: Welcoming a Daughter	p. 75
Infertility	p. 79
Responding to the Cry - Reactions to Childlessness	p. 81
A Ritual for the Loss of a Baby	p. 90
A Ritual for the Termination of a Pregnancy	p. 92
Living Infertility	p. 99
Relationships and Change	p. 117
Prayers surrounding Marriage	p. 119
'Marriage' by Any Other Name: Lesbian and Gay 'Commitment Ceremonies'	p. 125
Our Jewish Wedding	p. 134
On the Breakdown of a Relationship	p. 147
Ritual for Leaving, Arriving and Journeying	p. 153
In Pain and in Healing	p. 157
Animal Kaddish	p. 159
A Prayer during Depression	p. 168
Psalms to Help through Depression	p. 170
A Rabbi's Experience of Illness	p. 177
Beginning a Religious Response to Mastectomy	p. 182
Healing	p. 186
Notes	p. 196
Acknowledgments	p. 201
Glossary	p. 202
Notes on Contributors	p. 209
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