{"id":2940,"date":"2023-02-16T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rabbihaviva.com\/?page_id=2940"},"modified":"2023-07-04T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:42:13","slug":"to-die-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rabbihaviva.com\/to-die-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"To Die in Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
by Haviva Ner-David<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Recently widowed herself, and childless, Nomi, at sixty, still grapples with the consequences of the event that sent her into exile as a teenager. She hasn\u2019t seen her mother in forty years and fears it\u2019s too late to heal wounds that have festered far too long. She simply wants to settle her sister\u2019s estate, make sure her mother\u2019s safe, and return to her safe kibbutz life. What seems like a straightforward mission is complicated by the mystery of her sister\u2019s death, the plight of a pregnant teenager rejected by her Orthodox Jewish parents, and John, the sympathetic police officer who befriends her. The old farmhouse Nomi inherits from her sister also holds mysteries, and maybe a ghost, of its own.<\/p> To Die in Secret weaves interlocking threads of a richly complex tale of trauma, parenting, and forgiveness, as succeeding generations face horrific situations and unimaginable choices and struggle to find the hope and faith to carry on.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Haviva Ner-David is a writer and rabbi. In 2006 she became the first woman to publicly receive Orthodox rabbinic ordination, only to leave Orthodoxy and call herself a post-denominational rabbi. Ten years later, she received interfaith ordination from the One Spirit Interfaith-Interspiritual Seminary and now goes by post-denominational inter-spiritual rabbi.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t She writes both fiction and non-fiction and is the author of three spiritual journey memoirs, a novel, short stories, essays, a blog on\u00a0Times of Israel<\/i>, scholarly articles and a guidebook for engaged couples. Her short story, “Blame,” won the 2016\u00a0Lilith Magazine<\/i> short fiction contest. Photo credit:\u00a0Carmel Avivi<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Life on the Fringes: Hope Valley: \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Chanah\u2019s Voice: Getting (and Staying) Married Jewishly: To Die In Secret by Haviva Ner-David To Die in Secret is a quiet build into a redemptive roar of a story that illuminates history, ethnicity, and spirituality into one beautiful\u00a0weave. Read More Get Your Copy on Barnes & Noble Get Your Copy on BookShop Get Your Copy on Amazon When we first meet Nomi, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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A Feminist Journey Towards Traditional Rabbinic Ordination
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A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment, and the Women\u2019s Rituals of Baking, Bathing and Brightening<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Preparing for your Life Together with Ancient and Modern Wisdom<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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