The Bride: One Woman's Walk Through Judaism and Catholicism: The Sabbath, Marriage, Mass, and the World to Come - Softcover

Bardan, Channah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939409097 ISBN 13: 9780939409099

Publisher: Miriam Press, 2017

Synopsis

"Bardan was teethed on the riches and beauty and orderliness of Orthodox Judaism. When God led her yet deeper into the riches and fullness of Catholicism, she could only channel the joy and motivation of her overflowing life by feasting daily in the deep reality of both traditions. In this work of joy, she has poured out upon her many friends and readers the love of God revealed with vigor in her written record. There is a demand for a book such as this, at this very time in salvation history." [From the Preface]

"The Bride weds everything that points to the Messiah in certain revered traditions of Orthodox Judaism to the incarnate Son of God in the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass. What more evangelical witness could Jewish people in the Church manifest than to render glory to God by exulting in and practicing the treasures of both the Old and the New? (Matthew 13:52)" [From the Preface]

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Review:

"We give thanks to God for this faith-filled work of Channah Bardan. She has blazed a clear trail straight through a dense forest of interfaith dialogue, theological debate, and controversy concerning the possibility or impossibility of just such a journey as this. She has already crossed through a spiritual Red Sea." (From the Preface)

Kathleen M. Moss
Association of Hebrew Catholics

"In his book Jewish Identity, Elias Friedman, O.C.D. made the case that the election of the People Israel was intended to continue into the New Covenant, to serve the Church and all peoples. Father did not elaborate on the Jewish traditions that would shape the collective presence of the People within the Church. Rather, he believed that the manner in which their traditions would be lived out would be a matter settled between Hebrew Catholics and Church authorities.

"In The Bride, Channah Bardan fills in the lacuna left by Fr. Friedman. She has given us a wonderful example of how Jewish traditions might be lived out in the Church, by those so inclined. It is these traditions, lived in the light of Christ, that will enable the People to live the Catholic faith as Jews, thereby preserving their collective God-given identity."

David M. Moss
Association of Hebrew Catholics

About this edition

• Publisher: Miriam Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0939409097
• ISBN 13: 9780939409099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100