By Lois Shenker,Eve Posen
Just as Pirkei Avot, the rabbinic statement written by way of rabbis within the 2d century, C.E., supplied a moral highway map for the neighborhood of its day, Pirkei Imahot offers a moral street map written by means of and for modern girls today.
Through the authors’ personal distinctive reviews as girls, moms, leaders and academics of their neighborhood, and people of the various girls who contributed their very own phrases of knowledge to this publication, the reader will achieve knowledge on the best way to reside morally inside of her group, the best way to perform tikkun olam, [the fix of the realm] and the way to bolster her management roles to make a distinction. The probing questions came across in the course of the publication supply another chance, via introspection and self-examination, for the reader to benefit the teachings discovered in the covers of this notion frightening book!
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