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Through the Gates: A Practice for Counting the Omer

Through the Gates: A Practice for Counting the Omer

Windle, Susan

Paperback

Series: Through the Gates, Book 1

Judaism

ISBN10: 1484081706
ISBN13: 9781484081709
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 27 2014
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This is the black and white edition, with cover photograph by Matthew van der Giessen. The first edition, published as an ebook, is available, with eight more of the photographer's images, in full color the Kindle Store. A second, full color print edition is also available now.

Through the Gates is a series of evocative letters and poems leading the reader through the practice of counting the Omer. Poet Susan Windle writes to a group of spiritual companions who share the same contemporary Jewish mystic for a teacher, Rabbi Shefa Gold, and who are engaged together in the spiritual discipline of the Omer, an ancient practice marking the forty-nine days between the spring festival of Pesach (Passover) and the early summer festival of Shavuot, (the Festival of Weeks.) In the course of counting the days, Susan tells the story of her convergence with Judaism. Methodist by heritage, with a long connection to Unitarian Universalism, she became Jewish by choice in 2008. A bridge builder in many ways, Susan Windle has been described as a multi-faith community within herself. In these intricate writings-poems within letters, letters within larger letters- offering both spiritual memoir and guidance for daily practice, the poet explores the rhythms and textures of daily life, inviting the reader into intimate engagement with the mystery of life itself. Susan's story, as it unfolds through the seven weeks of the Omer, is celebratory, sweetly challenging, and deeply satisfying.

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