By Israel Drazin
This publication demanding situations a number of the uncomplicated assumptions approximately Judaism, displaying what number of them are nowhere to be present in the Hebrew Bible, and a few also have their origins in pagan cultures. it's going to shock readers to listen to, for instance, approximately strange marriage ceremony practices, the Queen of Sheba myths, or the truth that classical spiritual assets aren't constantly correct. At its center, , the e-book stridently demanding situations discriminatory practices opposed to girls, resembling the seclusion of ladies in the course of spiritual companies and the matter of the aguna, girls held in failed marriages by means of husbands who won't offer a non secular divorce.. With issues spanning the diversity of spiritual perform, Mysteries of Judaism will astonish and enlighten readers because it unearths the complicated courting among biblical and rabbinic Judaism.
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