Heart Map and the Song of Our Ancestors is for the reluctant and the yearning. It is for those of us who crave a Jewish path that makes sense out of life but embraces us right where we are. For anyone who has encountered a barrier to Judaism, Heart Map invites Jews without community, or Jews in struggle with community, to know that where they are, right now, is totally and completely Jewish and authentic. Revealing everything from tattoos to griefs that go beyond just death, the book also presents the unexpected joys of Jewish life and the wandering that takes us to find Jewish significance and blessing at every moment of our weird and winding way. Combining the radical new genre of contemporary piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poems) with visual images of Jews as they really are and live, Devon Spier reminds us that people matter and that the Jewish story has all of us in it. For we are not only part of our ancestors but our ancestors are actually us.

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Devon Spier drew a map to her ancestors and her heart started beating again. After a year spent routinely bedridden and unable to pray, she picked up a pen and began to relocate all the messy and complicated experiences of being human from out on the margins into the heart of everyday life and community. “Heart Map and the Song of Our Ancestors” is her first book and the culmination of that very work. Newly a writer, ritualist and artistic creator, Devon's work has been featured by The Jewish Women's Archives, PJ Library, Bayit and Ben Yehuda Press, as well as consulted by the London Institute for Jewish Studies. In addition to her written output, Devon has been the recipient of awards for academic work in Religious Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Waterloo as well for Canadian peacemaking from the YMCA. In April 2018, The Ontario Government honoured Devon with the Leading Women/Leading Girls Building Communities Award. A rabbinical student at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York, Devon learns, yearns and works to raise Jewish life to what it ought to be. She invites you to bring yourself to the journey, revealing the power of what is utterly Jewish and undeniably human in all of us.

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