{"product_id":"going-out-with-knots-my-two-kaddish-years-with-hebrew-poetry-paperback-softback-9780827615700","title":"Going Out with Knots; My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry (Paperback \/ softback) 9780827615700","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGoing Out with Knots\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMy Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWendy I. Zierler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780827615700, University of Nebraska Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 6 photographs, 5 illustrations, 1 appendix, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This book isn’t just a memoir; it’s a friend.”-Etgar Keret, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Good Years\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGoing Out With Knots\u003c\/i\u003e is at once deeply personal, literary, and evocative. This is a book I’ll treasure and give to people I love.”-Rabbi Rachel Adler, professor emerita at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and author of \u003ci\u003eEngendering Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This book is a gift to anyone seeking meaning in the midst of sorrow. Rabbi Zierler’s eloquent blend of personal narrative and poetic interpretation seamlessly melds ancient and new traditions to reveal the profound ways that Jewish texts and Hebrew literature can guide us through loss and healing.”-Rabba Sara Hurwitz, president and cofounder of Yeshivat Maharat\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“My suggestion: savor small installments. Allow yourself to absorb the fine nuances in the discussion of each poem. When Zierler masterfully weaves together her extensive knowledge of modern Hebrew culture and traditional Jewish texts, there are multitudes of gems along the way.”-Naomi Sokoloff, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSince 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eInterweaving memoir with Hebrew poetry, \u003ci\u003eGoing Out with Knots\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates author Wendy I. Zierler’s literary and personal Jewish mourning journey in the aftermath of unremitting personal loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She begins with her story: the death of both her parents in one year; the challenges she faced as a woman saying Kaddish in an Orthodox synagogue; and her decision to teach a weekly class on modern Hebrew poems that addressed grief, prayer, and God wrestling. Each subsequent chapter delves into the works of a different modern Hebrew poet-Lea Goldberg, Avraham Ḥalfi, Yehuda Amichai, Rachel Morpurgo, Rachel Bluwstein, Ruhama Weiss, and Amir Gilboa-in the order in which she translated, interpreted, and taught their poems (many translated into English for the first time). Each poet, like Zierler, comes to writing deeply connected to Jewish tradition and yet at odds with it, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eGoing Out with Knots\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on how a woman living in a modern Orthodox community can claim a place in the male-centered rituals that Jewish tradition prescribes for mourning, and how immersion in modern Hebrew poetry can respond deeply to both communal (COVID-19, October 7) as well as personal losses, offering a new form of theology and Torah.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 1. So Much Has Been Severed\u003cbr\u003e 1. Learning to Mourn: Going Out with Knots\u003cbr\u003e Things Fall Apart\u003cbr\u003e The End of Stories\u003cbr\u003e Loose Thread\u003cbr\u003e Going Out with Knots\u003cbr\u003e Settling In\u003cbr\u003e Mourning and Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e Sewing a Seam\u003cbr\u003e A Kaddish\/COVID Journal with Poems \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part 2. Transitions and Translations\u003cbr\u003e 2. Picturing God in Grief and Prayer: Beginning to Mourn with Lea Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e “To Mother’s Portrait”\u003cbr\u003e “By Three Things”\u003cbr\u003e “In My Prayer Book”\u003cbr\u003e “Let Winter Be Blessed”\u003cbr\u003e “Blessing”\u003cbr\u003e From “One Spring”\u003cbr\u003e From “My Silences”\u003cbr\u003e “Night Psalm”\u003cbr\u003e “He Passed Over Our Door and There Was Light”\u003cbr\u003e From “Ending” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Facing an Absent God: Grief and God Struggle in the Poetry of Avraham Ḥalfi\u003cbr\u003e “Dream of Your Footsteps”\u003cbr\u003e “I Know Not the Words”\u003cbr\u003e “Crowned Is Your Forehead with Black Gold”\u003cbr\u003e “Here a Person Believed”\u003cbr\u003e “And Songs Are the Dust of Antiquities”\u003cbr\u003e From “Heretic’s Prayers”\u003cbr\u003e “At Night Birds Fell”\u003cbr\u003e “Jewish Fall” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Living with a Lesser, Closer God: Yehuda Amichai’s Secular Theology of Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e “And That Is Your Glory”\u003cbr\u003e “In the Morning I Stand by Your Bed”\u003cbr\u003e “Half the People in the World”\u003cbr\u003e “God’s Hand in the World”\u003cbr\u003e “A Sort of End of Days”\u003cbr\u003e “My Mother Baked Me the Whole World”\u003cbr\u003e “Whoever Wrapped in a Tallit”\u003cbr\u003e “Men, Women, and Children”\u003cbr\u003e “God Has Mercy on Kindergarten Children”\u003cbr\u003e “I Filtered from the Book of Esther”\u003cbr\u003e “My Father on Passover Eve” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Searching for Female Liturgical Voices: Mourning and Studying with Rachel Morpurgo\u003cbr\u003e “Behold the Letter”\u003cbr\u003e “And Thus Sang Rachel about Her Wedding”\u003cbr\u003e “See, This Is New”\u003cbr\u003e “On Those Fleeing the Cholera Epidemic”\u003cbr\u003e “A Voice Is Heard in the Heights”\u003cbr\u003e “This One Shall Be Called ‘My Delight Is with Her’”\u003cbr\u003e “I, Leah, Was So Very Tired”\u003cbr\u003e “Fount of Wisdom from a Flowing Stream”\u003cbr\u003e “Buried Here Is the Lady”\u003cbr\u003e “The Monument Is a Witness”\u003cbr\u003e “This Is the Burial Monument that Rachel Morpurgo Prepared for Herself in Her Youth” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. Retying the Knots: Learning and Relearning with Ruhama Weiss\u003cbr\u003e “I Throw Down My Supplication”\u003cbr\u003e “Lament for Rashi’s Daughters”\u003cbr\u003e “I Am Still Praying”\u003cbr\u003e “And Once Again, I’ll Sin and Return”\u003cbr\u003e “Chapters of the Mothers” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. Penning Pandemic Torah: Rachel Bluwstein’s Feminist\/Illness Poetry\u003cbr\u003e “Soul Walking”\u003cbr\u003e “Barren Woman”\u003cbr\u003e From “In the Hospital”\u003cbr\u003e “Or Maybe”\u003cbr\u003e “Ḥoni the Circle Maker”\u003cbr\u003e “Day of Tidings”\u003cbr\u003e “Sorrow Song” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8. 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