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My Jewish Year
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew | Abigail Pogrebin
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In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebins My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the authors journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and contemporary relevance; she wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, some for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation, and writing about the milestones on the religious calendar. Whether in search of a roadmap for Jewish life or a challenging probe into the architecture of Jewish tradition, readers will be captivated, educated and inspired by Abigail Pogrebins My Jewish Year.
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I was interested in this book as a person of Jewish descent who has little knowledge of Jewish religious or cultural practices, but would like to know more! This book is accessible, engaging, clearly-organized, and informative. What I saw as Pogrebin‘s attempt to walk the line politically regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was uncomfortable sometimes, especially when it felt relevant to the message of a holiday. Gentle TW for diet/fasting.

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MindyK59
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I planned my reading of this book around the Jewish holidays. I enjoyed the author‘s writing of her experience fully immersing herself in observing all the holidays for one year. Although I know about the major holidays, it was interesting to learn about the not so major holidays and to read about her observance of them. I even learned a little bit about them. It was a good book for me to read as I was observing my holidays.

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Preparing for Shabbat and just finished this book. I read this over the course of the year starting with rose hashanah. The author, already a regular shul goer, sets out to fully observe each holiday of the Jewish year. I loved learning more about each holiday and seeing different rabbis thoughts and explanations of the traditional and not so traditional practices.

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Insightsintobooks
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This is on sale for the month of January, in case anyone is interested.

#kindledeal #kindledeals #ebooksale

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Blaire
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Starting the Jewish New Year off with this book. Hoping for some spiritual insight or at least new knowledge and a peaceful start to this year after a difficult end to the last. Shana Tovah! 🍎 🍯

Insightsintobooks Shana Tova! I got that book from PJ Library too. 6y
CouronneDhiver I‘m looking forward to a new year here too (not Jewish, but totally share the sentiment) ... it‘s been a rough one! 6y
AmyG Shana Tova. I said the same thing...looking to start off this new year and leave the lat one behind. (edited) 6y
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LibrarianJen Shana Tovah to you too. 6y
Blaire @Insightsintobooks I‘m enjoying it so far, have been reading along with the holidays so will take me the year to finish. On to sukkot! 6y
Blaire @CouronneDhiver @amyg yes, I could use a year of happy happenings. The last two have been rough for me as well. 6y
Blaire @LibrarianJen thank you! 6y
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Yay! My PJ Library parents book finally came 😁😁😀😀

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alisiakae I love PJ library! We have a huge stack of books my daughter has received from them over the years. 6y
Insightsintobooks @4thhouseontheleft I love it as well. My son just started this year, but has some great books. 6y
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