{"id":951,"date":"2021-02-03T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rabbihaviva.com\/?page_id=951"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:11:50","slug":"life-on-the-fringes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rabbihaviva.com\/life-on-the-fringes\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on the Fringes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Life on the Fringes<\/em> is both memoir and scholarly treatise.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Life on the Fringes<\/em> is both memoir and scholarly treatise. It is the story of a young girl coming into her own in the Orthodox Jewish world in which she grew up. Haviva Ner-David, who was the first woman to be publicly ordained by an Orthodox rabbi, was studying for her ordination when she wrote this book. She weaves, in a skillful and heartfelt way, personal stories and scenes from her life with Jewish legal texts relating to women and Judaism — thus posing the personal struggle against the classic rabbinic discussion, creating a dialogue between the two.<\/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

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThis is a compelling story\u2014the journey of a Jewish woman both rebellious and willing to bind herself to the yoke of Jewish law. Skillfully interweaving personal anecdotes and Jewish texts, Ner-David relates engagingly and poignantly what it means to be pulled in two directions by deep commitments to both feminism and halakhah. Among the most important passages in this book are those which deal directly and movingly with perhaps the hardest question: how do we raise the next generation?\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cLeaving no thought unexamined, no Jewish life experience unquestioned, Ner-David takes steps that sometimes make us feel like applauding\u2014and sometimes make us uncomfortable almost to the point of covering our eyes and reading through the slits between our fingers. Wrestling with issues from which we might wish to hide, she pulls us in right behind her, resistant yet sensing our own anticipation, feeling something akin to what we might while watching a precious stone being cut and polished before our very eyes\u2026 Nowhere is the phrase \u201cthe personal is political\u201d more apparent than in the unfolding of Ner-David\u2019s life. Her journey from smart Jewish child born into a modern Orthodox family to rebellious teenager to ardent feminist-wife-mother-community member, will serve as a trail guide for others beginning or midway along parallel journeys. Each woman and man must surely sort out all these issues in a very personal way, but Ner-David\u2019s actions and reflections enable others to build upon her inner struggle, bringing all of us to a new place sooner than we thought. You are about to be taken along on an incredible journey inside the mind and heart of a trailblazer. Good passage.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cA profoundly moving and singularly honest account\u2026 Ner-David is a courageous pioneer, choosing to remain within the halakhic community while stretching its boundaries, attempting to make Orthodoxy a safer and more hospitable place for religious women. This book is a most important contribution to the cause of religious feminism.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cLife on the Fringes<\/em> provides a riveting look inside Orthodox feminism that will capture the hearts and minds of Jewish feminists of all stripes. Haviva Ner-David -- a gifted, thoughtful, spirited woman \u2013 writes about her journey toward rabbinic ordination in a way that is erudite, soulful, passionate, and engaging. I look forward to the day when a community will call her \u2018Rabbi\u2019.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRabbi Amy Eilberg, first woman ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary<\/span><\/cite>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cA brutally honest cri de coeur\u2026 With no holds barred, Ner-David touches on all the issues of the day: women and Jewish study and ritual, Jewish attitudes towards hetero- and homosexuality, and the tensions between generations. Many of the scenes in this book will not soon be forgotten.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cWriting with grace and intellectual integrity, Haviva Ner-David has crafted a work that is both scholarly and intensely personal. Life on the Fringes<\/em> sheds much needed light on the struggle of committed Jewish women today. This is an important book that demands our attention.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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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

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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.
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Her rabbinic specialties are spiritual companionship, water immersion rituals, wedding and marriage preparation, coming of age ceremonies and other ritual and ceremony creation and innovation. Founding rabbi of Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul<\/i> on Kibbutz Hannaton in the Lower Galilee, she officiates and helps create on-site personalized immersion ritual ceremonies and facilitates group mikveh workshops. As a spiritual companion, she works with individuals and couples and specializes in dreamwork, inner child work and nature soul work, as well as general sacred listening.<\/div>\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
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Getting (and Staying) Married Jewishly:
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