AVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERGis the author of The Murmuring Deep- Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious, The Beginning of Desire- Reflections on Genesis and The Particulars of Rapture- Reflections on Exodus. She lectures widely in Israel, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. She lives in Jerusalem.
“A book for readers who seek out that rare sensibility capable of
explaining, exploring, and deepening our sense of what it means to
be a human being of faith in a world as fractured and fragmentary
as ours.”
—Forward
“Zornberg tries to lay bare the process by which biblical
characters act as they do, and she shows how the Bible employs not
just the intelligible, well-ordered language of conscious speech
but also the elusive idiom of the unconscious. [The text] becomes
in her hands, yet again, a work of mystery.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Zornberg’s breadth of knowledge is awe-inspiring. Because she is
steeped in such varied sources of knowledge, she speaks to readers
of varied backgrounds and interests. This is a book to be savored.
There are gems throughout.”
—The Jerusalem Report
“In Zornberg's brilliant new work, we have a heroic reconstruction
of the rabbinic canon in ways that seek to make it relevant to
contemporary readers, allowing them to use their education to
incorporate Jewish texts into their actual lives. By opening up the
midrashic traditions, Zornberg has given us the freedom to open up
the book of our own psychological lives and to understand how the
ancient traditions illuminate who we are and what we can become. If
education is the very core value of Judaism, it is by reading books
like The Murmuring Deep that we can fulfill the precept of Torah
study. Avivah Zornberg has permitted us to witness the greatness of
the Jewish sages in a freshly creative and intensely dynamic way.
The path of such understanding is not simply to allow us to be more
religious, but also to better assert our human ethicality and our
place in this vast and complex universe.”
—Tikkun
“The effect of each chapter is a humble display of quoted
erudition. The art of these readings, like that of collage-making
or quilting, resides in the unique coherence of the final
assemblage. . . . The trusting reader is rewarded with that
deeper, more vivid experience of life that comes from confronting
the existential, traumatized self and from finding consolation in
the Torah’s prolific elusive meanings.”
—Lilith Magazine
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