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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Sabbath Bee: Love Songs to Shabbat

The Sabbath Bee: Love Songs to Shabbat

Gottschalk, Wilhelmina

Paperback

Series: Jewish Poetry Project, Book 9

JudaismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1934730696
ISBN13: 9781934730690
Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press
Published: Jun 1 2018
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Shabbat arrives as usual,
dressed in silk
with her hair and make-up
beautifully arranged.


So begins The Sabbath Bee by Wilhelmina Gottschalk, which updates the millenia-old genre of Jewish Sabbath poetry for today's world.

Torah, say our sages, has seventy faces. As these prose poems reveal, so too does Shabbat. Here we meet Shabbat as familiar housemate, as the child whose presence transforms a family (sometimes in ways that outsiders can't understand), as a spreading tree, as an annoying friend who insists on being celebrated, as a child throwing water balloons, as a woman, as a man, as a bee, as the ocean... Through the lens of these deft, surprising, moving prose poems, all seventy of Shabbat's faces shine.

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