With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of her Faith - Softcover

Firestone, Tirzah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452278856 ISBN 13: 9780452278851

Publisher: Plume, 1999

Synopsis

"Candid, intense, and compulsively readable, this is spiritual biography at its very best."--Letty Cottin Pogrebin

At age seventeen, Tirzah Firestone left the oppressive home of her Orthodox Jewish parents and set off on a spiritual odyssey. With Roots in Heaven is the story of that journey, a fascinating and moving account of her evolution from rebellious young seeker to renegade rabbi. This is an inspiring, true account of a courageous woman with strong convictions and a passion to know and feel God. It is also a book that goes beyond one person's story of wandering and redemption to explore the dangers of modern religion and the joys and conflicts of intermarriage and raising interfaith children. An unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, and transformation--of grace sought and found--With Roots in Heaven offers hope, wisdom, and encouragement to anyone seeking deeper spiritual meaning in today's world.

"A daring exploration of different spiritual paths . . . filled with joy, story, community, and a celebration of ancient wisdom."--Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Book of Life

About this title

About the Author:

Tirzah Firestone is a psychotherapist and founding rabbi of the Jewish Renewal community of Boulder, Colorado. Rabbi Firestone teaches and lectures widely on Jewish meditation and practices. She lives in Boulder with her husband, David, and their three children.

From Library Journal:

Firestone's autobiography has all the suspense and excitement of a good novel as it details her complex journey from a meticulously observant Orthodox Jewish background to her current faith. She takes readers from the static faith she experienced growing up through the geography of her spiritual search in many religious traditions to her marriage to a Christian minister and rejection of her birth family (with whom she later reconciled) and then to her rediscovery of her Jewish roots in a renewed form. Her story is a wonderful example of the transformation of what was, to the author, almost a dead faith into one that is vital and transformational yet accepting of Jews who define their faith more narrowly. Recommended reading for spiritual seekers and feminists in various religious traditions.?Dr. Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0452278856
• ISBN 13: 9780452278851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224