"Toba Spitzer's God Is Here is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of God and how we can reconsider the deity through metaphors and daily practices."-- We search for a system of meaning to make sense of our lives, yet traditional religion too-often leaves those seeking spiritual sustenance unsatisfied. Spitzer goes back to the earliest sources for Judaism and Christianity, and discovers in the Hebrew Bible metaphors of the divine, including Water,...

Imagine your life filled with meaning, understanding, and unending contentment. Imagine your days infused with penetrating insight and energy. This is the Power of Kabbalah, a power that has been denied the world for some 2,000 years! Your deepest desires were always meant to be fulfilled. But the system and formula for arousing genuine fulfillment were lost for centuries -- until now. Whereas most books on Kabbalah flood you with history, scholarship,...

The author describes her family's life in a small town in Tennessee before World War II, where, as the first Jews in town, they owned a dry goods store and struggled to prosper in a place where Jews were treated as outsiders