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T'shuvah: Poems

T'shuvah: Poems

Newman, Richard Jeffrey

Paperback

HebrewCriminology

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1594981124
ISBN13: 9781594981128
Publisher: Fernwood Press
Published: Oct 17 2023
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

T'shuvah (תשובה) means repentance in Hebrew. Etymologically, it comes from the root meaning to return. One way to understand the logic of that etymology is this: if sin alienates you from both God and yourself, then atoning for sin means returning to yourself as a starting point for deepening your commitment to the life God wants you to lead. The poems in T'shuvah apply this framing to the question of what it means to return from the alienation that is inherent in surviving sexual violence, with the caveat, of course, that a survivor of sexual violence has committed no sin and that neither the moralizing nature nor the implicit politics of the phrase the life God wants you to lead need by definition to be part of that process.

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