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This, to me, was one of the most compelling parts of the book: the argument that Jews all over the world, including but not limited to the United States, can remember that being in exile isn’t lesser, and especially isn’t less Jewish.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Tamkin in \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Magid’s concept of exile invites those in the Diaspora—as well as those within Israel—to rethink a sense of not yet being home, keeping possibilities of other existences and avoiding a ‘culture of domination.’”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eEtan Nechin in \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Magid’s project—overthe wide-ranging, moving, and learned essays that constitute the collection—is to do what Jews have always done when they want to mute or subdue the radicalism of a disruptive proposal: he locates the source of his authority in traditional antecedents.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eGideon Lewis-Kraus in \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“For many secular Israelis and non-Israeli Jews in the diaspora, Israel is all there is to define what it is to be a Jew. 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I can't stop thinking about this book!” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jonathan Vatner, author of \u003ci\u003eCarnegie Hill \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Bridesmaids’ Union\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“This book is mesmerizing and profound. I was already a fan of Jay Michaelson's nonfiction, but this book brings his unique theological and spiritual perspectives alive on an earthy, human level. His characters' lives are sometimes troubled, sometimes angst-filled, but always deeply examined, and in some cases even enlightened. 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What makes these stories heretical is their undeniable traditional nature, and what makes them traditional is their incontestable heretical nature. They compel the reader to imagine the connection between the theosophic mysteries of the divine and the psychological-emotional complexities of the mundane, the sacred and the profane, the holy and the erotic. Perhaps this is the esoteric import of the title, for what after all is a secret that is no secret but the most profound secret that can be divulged only to the extent that it is withheld? The fiction artfully woven by Michaelson beckons the reader on the endless journey to uncover what must be recovered.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Elliot R. 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From a time of rupture and uncertainty, beloved movement poet Aurora Levins Morales brings us a prayer book for the street, for reconstituting the future through our gestures in the present. In these poems of devotion and protest, Levins Morales speaks across and through time with an undeniably prophetic voice. Written in collaboration with various communities looking to honor, unravel, and rebuild Jewish liturgies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eRimonim\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a book of lyric in the most immediate sense—of poems that are meant to be read and sung. Rooted in tradition and flowering in the tumultuous present, these poems will both accompany specific Jewish practices and offer inspiration for the sacred work of human liberation, where joy meets justice. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUltimately, these forty-nine poems honor the forty-ninth year, when it was taught that everything in the land would begin anew, everything redistributed and freed, when the people would see that everything on this earth was \"ready to wake and bloom \/ just under the skin of what is.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAurora Levins Morales \u003c\/b\u003ei\u003cspan\u003es a cuir Ashkenazi Boricua writer of poetry, essays, and fiction. 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After forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives at Finca la Lluvia, an agro-poetry project in the western mountains of Boriken, also known as Puerto Rico. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Story of What is Broken is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewill be published in 2024 by Duke University Press. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFind her on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/auroralevinsmorales\"\u003ePatreon\u003c\/a\u003e and at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.auroralevinsmorales.com\"\u003ewww.auroralevinsmorales.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eRimonim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Aurora Levins Morales's poetry radiates wisdom, warmth, and fortitude. A prophetic, life-centered guide for times of tumult and struggle.”\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Arielle Angel, editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Don't you need a blessing from the grandmothers? A reconsecration of your relationship to Earth? Then you need the words of this ‘fierce Latina Jew holding out a rose to Palestine.’ In these poems, as always, Aurora Levins Morales reminds us that who we are has never been simple but who we are is also holy. These are the poems that invite us to act accordingly.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of \u003ci\u003eSurvival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An answered prayer! A prayer itself! This book is such a glorious remedy to carry us through our days and seasons. Drawing on a lineage of revolutionary poet-prophets, Aurora Levins Morales roots into the fertile margins and weaves the liturgy we need for these times of fire and crisis. Infused with water and stone, these prayer-poems irrigate and ground us, (re)orienting and (re)organizing us to earth, to each other, to ourselves, and to what we hold sacred. Blessed are we and blessed is she for bringing forth this generous, gorgeous, much needed and desired offering.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Dori Midnight, community care practitioner, ritual leader, and writer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“This healing, generous collection from the voice of a treasured, prophetic elder is medicine for the long haul. An abundant collection of seeds, the poems of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRimonim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e celebrate and affirm that we are interconnected, embedded in a sacred web of those who rest, rise, labor, love, sow, weave, grieve, and give. These breathtaking poems and prayers invite us to lay down our ‘illusions of separation’ and to know that ‘each wound is full of possibility.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRimonim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e offers so much to our multilingual, multiracial, intergenerational, diasporic Jewish communities and movements for justice. I am so grateful for this long-awaited collection and the world conjured within it. ‘Bless me,’ Levins Morales writes and generations will echo, ‘for this is the time and I am awake.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eQue viva! Amen!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Mónica Gomery, author of \u003ci\u003eMight Kindred\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-2cd4fb93-7fff-be56-0072-238b288b504f\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRimonim \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a sacred offering. Simultaneously rooted and ephemeral, sensory and transcendent, of the earth and of the spirits, this book is a gift to organizers and seekers everywhere. Aurora Levins Morales weaves together our past with our present, daring us to imagine a future born from our most liberated dreams and desires. It’s one of those ‘keep this by your bedside’ books that I will return to over and over again, with deep admiration and gratitude.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Audrey Sasson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, executive director of Jews for Racial \u0026amp; Economic Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Aurora Levins Morales’s liturgical work is not just poetry; it's a divine echo of comfort, legend, and ethereal beauty that resonates deeply with those in need of ethically aligned spiritual nourishment. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRimonim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, Levins Morales masterfully weaves her ancestral spiritual heritage with a sophisticated, nuanced, and precise understanding of the most urgent calls for justice and liberation of our time. This is the poetry of a true tzaddik, whose legendary work facilitates healing and opens portals of possibility and hope, guiding us toward a more inspired, compassionate, and just future.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—April N. 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Packed with practical exercises to inspire your creative practice, \u003ci\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e is for all people—from any tradition or none—who want to seed a world of imagination, abundance, and joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRabbi Adina Allen\u003c\/b\u003e is a spiritual leader, writer, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is cofounder and creative director of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishstudioproject.org\/\"\u003eJewish Studio Project\u003c\/a\u003e (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person is connected to their creativity as a force for healing, liberation and social transformation. 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She and her family live in Berkeley, California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“For most of human history, art-making was viewed as a way of honoring and dialoguing with the divine. But in a secular age, we often forget that our creative vision is not an individual possession; it is a verb that ties us into divine communion with our ecologies. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, Rabbi Adina Allen offers us an answer to this desaturated worldview. She gifts us an updated, animistic view of Jewish mysticism and storytelling that generously ‘beckons us to return to our depths, the chaos within.’ Here is the creative spring that welcomes microbes and rootlets alongside dazzling angels and perplexing midrash.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Strand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Madonna Secret \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e underscores the transformative power of creativity as a means of self-discovery, healing, and connection to a deeper spiritual dimension. Rabbi Adina Allen's personal experiences illustrate the profound impact that creative expression can have on navigating challenges and accessing inner wisdom. She dismantles the common misconception that creativity is exclusive to artists, emphasizing instead that creativity is a fundamental human capacity accessible to everyone. Rabbi Allen emphasizes the communal nature of creativity and the wisdom that comes from creating from the heart. This book encourages readers to embrace creativity as a means of self-discovery, personal growth, and contributing to the collective construction of a more meaningful and connected world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan Magsamen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, bestselling co-author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“This book is a window into the sacred methodology of the Jewish Studio Process, which invites us into a multidirectional process of discovery—of Torah and of self. In this time of so much heartache, when the world conspires to have us shut down, Rabbi Allen inspires us to ‘make art about it’—to unlock the creative possibilities that call out from our ancient texts and traditions, and that reside in each of us. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is beautiful and heart-opening.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rabbi Sharon Brous\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rabbi Adina Allen awakens our perception, revealing Imagination as an inspired process, from the Divine. Here, creativity is not constructed but received in a deep sacred dialogue. Bravo for this renewal of the possibility and purpose of arts and artful living!” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lisa Miller, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Awakened Brain: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“In this book, you are likely to encounter words. However, if you lean in closer and bend your ears towards the pages, you might come to touch something else lurking between and behind every font: a stirring sermon in turbulent times; a song, offered with such delicate dexterity, reminding us that the world is never finished, never still, and that creation is still happening now. Rabbi Allen's studious and reverent reformulation of the Torah as not just a going up on mountains, not just a taking in of instructions, but a coming down to earth, a revitalization of the ordinary with a strange potency, drips with agency. Every morsel of Rabbi Allen's disarmingly affecting invitation will spirit you away through ruptures and fissures to more wondrous delights than we can name. More than words can capture.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Báyò \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkómoláfé\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e PhD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Deeply, gently, and courageously countercultural, this book is a stunning affirmation of life. In a time of narrowing imagination, Rabbi Adina Allen invites us to explore the untapped possibilities that live within us. In a time of relentless consumerism, she invites us to experience the sheer joy of creativity. In a time of shallow relevance, she invites us to listen for the layered resonance of ancient words. In a time of cynicism, she invites us to enter the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eplace of all possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. To open this book is to open oneself to hope.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, President of Hebrew College\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a potent call to reclaim creativity as sacred practice. Rabbi Adina Allen offers us a wise and beautiful companion for the journey—an invitation to turn towards the untamed places in our hearts, a catalyst for rewilding our spiritual lives.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rabbi Julia Watts Belser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rabbi Adina Allen’s embrace of the Torah offers ways of reading and responding that align with the sacred book’s embodiment of the eternal creative process—forever made anew through imaginative responses. ‘Turn it and turn it, for everything is in it’ affirms interpretation as a creative act, reliably a few steps ahead of the reflecting mind. What better way to demonstrate the imaginative basis of creation than engaging the hallowed text, not with authoritative fixity, but as a living and moving presence inviting ‘wild’ artistic and unique interpretations, embedding its voice in our lives.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Shaun McNiff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTrust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“In this lovely and insightful book, Rabbi Adina Allen uncovers the creativity that animates Jewish tradition, and gives us the tools to unleash our own creativity and reanimate our lives. Her warmth, passion, and wisdom illuminate every page.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sarah Hurwitz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHere All Along: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life—in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rabbi Adina Allen’s Jewish Studio Process is the spiritual practice that will revolutionize Judaism. This practice puts the Torah of Creativity—for the first time in Jewish history—into the hands of every one of us, Jewish or not. In this book, Rabbi Allen teaches us how to unleash the power of creativity, guiding us to not only apply our insights to tradition to make it better, but to understand ourselves more fully and transform the challenges of our lives into wisdom.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rabbi Benay Lappe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, President and Rosh Yeshiva of SVARA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A teacher once told me, ‘God is in the details,’ and that is what I feel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e aims to teach us. This is a powerful, midrashic, and visionary book.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Siona Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, artist and illustrator of\u003ci\u003e The Zodiac Floor \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI Am Hava\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“In this warm, wise, and winsomely written book, Rabbi Adina Allen invites us to become creators of worlds—to engage the texts of Torah with everything we are, and to express our deepest selves by unleashing our inner creativity. If you’ve ever (or always) dreamed of marrying the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ebeit midrash\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (study hall) with the artists' studio, this beautiful book is for you. It will introduce you to a wonderful method and a remarkable teacher.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rabbi Shai Held\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“How blessed we are to find a sacred path that fuses creativity, wisdom, and connection across the ages. And how blessed among the blessed that we now have a master teacher, Rabbi Adina Allen, to translate that wisdom into words to nurture our souls, to open our creative possibilities, and to fuse the personal and the communal with the spiritual and the artistic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoslyn and Abner Goldstine Dean’s Chair and Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place of All Possibility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e expands the field of the arts from a discipline for the few to a spiritual practice for all. Rabbi Adina Allen makes explicit what has always been true in Jewish culture: that imagination is part of the process of understanding Torah, and that creativity itself is sacred. She reminds us that if we engage Torah not just through intellectual learning but through art-making, it becomes not a rigid text but a succession of fluid interpretations—enabling us to connect with it more deeply and freely. Rabbi Allen’s methodology, of bringing people together with sacred stories and offering them a framework for artistic response, is an important innovation in contemporary Jewish life. This book passionately shares that innovation with us all, inviting us to find the sacred flow.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRabbi Jill Hammer, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eUndertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e“Rabbi Allen explores in her stimulating debut the ‘immense potential of creativity’ to cast ‘ancient Jewish wisdom’ in a new light . . . Through a clever mix of artistic exercises and rabbinic wisdom, Allen encourages readers to ‘peel back layers of what we think we know’ to construct new understandings of their faith and themselves. It’s a unique and invigorating lens on Judaism.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Readers will almost find themselves in a \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e‘flow\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e’ state as they move through the book—no surprise, given that Rabbi Allen writes about this state in the book as well. Her unique nuanced approach will keep readers turning pages.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeth Ricanti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, Jewish Book Council\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e190 pages | Paperback | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.0625 x 7.75 in.\u003c\/span\u003e | ISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9781961814035 | e-ISBN: 9781961814042 | audio-ISBN: 9781961814257\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: July 30th, 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCover design by Gabriel Melcher\u003cbr\u003eArt direction by Cem Eskinazi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ayin Press","offers":[{"title":"Books","offer_id":44087836115124,"sku":"TPAP01","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0561\/0776\/1844\/files\/Ayin_51_final.jpg?v=1734969911"},{"product_id":"nothing-is-for-everyone","title":"Nothing Is for Everyone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deuteronomy.com\/\"\u003eDeuteronomy Press\u003c\/a\u003e publication, distributed by Ayin Press\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wise and energizing book of poems suffused with music, mysticism, tenderness, and wit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e \u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEden Pearlstein’s \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e is a manifesto of the unmanifest. Deeply, devotedly hybrid in influence and expression, this wild collection of poetry draws on rabbinic linguistics and kabbalistic meditation, free jazz and hip-hop, Marcel Duchamp and the Magid of Mezritch—all to reveal the permutational quality of language itself: its instability, resistance to containment, and divine fault lines. In these times when answers are plentiful and questions impoverished, Pearlstein’s insistence on the materiality of nothingness reveals that in fact nothing really matters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Deuteronomy Press and is distributed by Ayin Press (via Publishers Group West).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-normal-font-size\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-ae325b88-7fff-ad6a-33a9-1b99b1f8af5c\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEden Pearlstein\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary lan­guage artist and cofounder\/editorial direc­tor of\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ayinpress.org\/\"\u003e Ayin Press\u003c\/a\u003e. Over the past two decades he has created an eclectic portfolio of audio, visual, textual, and curatorial works and projects. Eden is the author of\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ayinpress.org\/nothing-is-for-everyone-3\/\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eNoth­ing Is for Every­one: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, edi­tor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ayinpress.org\/selah-a-bayo-akomolafe-reader\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelah: A Bayo Ako­mo­lafe Read­e\u003c\/em\u003er\u003c\/a\u003e, and cre­ative con­trib­u­tor to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ayinpress.org\/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSUR­VI­VA: A Future Ances­tral Field Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Can­nu­pa Han­s­ka Luger. Eden cur­rent­ly lives with his wife and two kids in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-normal-font-size\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With a post-bop-and-beat eloquence and a disarming, instructive largesse, Eden Pearlstein sings us toward that ‘tunnel \/ at the end \/ of the light’ through the nothing that’s everything for those who can hear it. This is a wise and energizing debut collection.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Cole, author of \u003cem\u003eDraw Me After: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Eden Pearlstein's wonderful \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone \u003c\/em\u003elives up to its provocative title. You could read it as the answer to a Buddhist koan or as a surrealist sales pitch, you could read it with a sigh, or with laughter and applause. What is nothing? Who is everyone? Pearlstein's images and poems walk lightly on the earth, in the company of \"memory and myth, ritual and art,\" dancing and touching home again and again, drawing you after, like a lover in the Song of Songs.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAlicia Ostriker, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“This book is an infinity mirror. A reflection of the reflection. I see everyone in the writing, different. I see different in the writing, everyone.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eCannupa Hanska Luger, artist\/author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFuture Ancestral Technologies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“One gets the sense from accompanying the wandering lines of this book that one has violated something ancient and sacred just by reading it. And yet, right there in the dimly lit room of the book’s unfurling, the composer himself smiles seductively, through alchemical lines too fugitive for common sense—as if to encourage us to stray. So I did. I read it all up. And now I’m \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003elost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The view has never been finer!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBayo Akomolafe, PhD, author of \u003cem\u003eThese Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the tradition of holy trickster-poets like Christopher Smart, Rebbe Nachman of Breslav, and the great kabbalists, these poems knit together the realm of kaleidoscopic fantasy and the doughy academy of the body. Using language as a candle to illuminate his way, Pearlstein interrogates the boundaries between human and divine, carrying on an ancient tradition of midrashic commentary, unearthing something deep and true about our life on earth.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAlicia Jo Rabins, author of \u003cem\u003eFruit Geode\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDivinity School\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From the impish, ecstatic wordplay embedded in the title, all the way to the alliterative Ars Poetica em-dashed into the final line, \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone \u003c\/em\u003eis not just brimming with a deep sense of the music of language: better, perhaps, to say that it is tapped directly into language’s musicvein. Mystical and melodic, weird and winking, reverent and rebellious, profane and profound, these poems are at once a yawp, a playground and a supplication.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eMoriel Rothman-Zecher, author of \u003cem\u003eBefore All the World \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSadness Is a White Bird\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In his soulfully singular voice, Eden Pearlstein keeps it light and playful, while remaining ever-mindful of the depths and paradoxes.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eRodger Kamenetz author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Eden Pearlstein’s \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e is soaked in the imagery of kabbalah and nondual consciousness—mystical and timeless, yet somehow relevant to walking down the street. The poems draw us in but never quite resolve into simple narrative (much like the world around us). There is something pointillist about these poems, something atomic that breaks down consciousness into its component parts, “every piece a puzzle unto itself.” These careful and potent observations from a modern kabbalist’s notebook offer a slant on Jewish theology that embraces the particular while dissolving into the cosmic; brilliantly directing us toward the nothing that is so deeply, specifically and gloriously—us.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUndertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If prose tells a story, poetry pokes holes in the plot. Don’t think! Imagine! Don’t explain! Rupture! In this potent collection of poems, Eden Pearlstein lures us into a cavernous space of images: fire, shadow, womb, name, spark, prayer, archetype, insanity. These poems don’t let you rest, but as you continue to read, you no longer want to. When you are done you will be out of breath. But as you venture again to inhale, the air will be sweeter. More textured. More alive.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eShaul Magid, Professor of Jewish Studies Dartmouth College, author most recently of \u003cem\u003eThe Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In these rhythmic and mystery-laden poems that evoke both personal depth and vibrant soundings of the sacred, Eden Pearlstein draws forth the contours of a contemporary mythology that is at once earthy and existential, metaphysical and mundane. In \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e, Pearlstein emerges as a poet who weaves together mystical transcendence; the deep well of motifs and symbols of the Jewish tradition; and a surprisingly fresh music of the fragile and all-too-human soul.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eEitan P. Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at The Jewish Theological Seminary,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eauthor of\u003cem\u003e The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With playful grace, Eden Pearlstein tugs at the essence of what makes life meaningful and what kindles spirit. From parenthood to the perspective of the soul to the paradox of being at home in exile, Pearlstein’s poetry asks and answers the most foundational and far out questions at the heart of the human experience.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eMadison Margolin, author of \u003cem\u003eExile and Ecstasy: Growing Up With Ram Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Eden Pearlstein's \u003cem\u003eNothing is For Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelation. A master wordsmith of our generation, Pearlstein playfully provokes his readers to consider the beauty, the terror, and the absurdity of existence through his signature poetic mix of spoken word, deep hasidic storytelling, overflowing hilarity, and a refusal to let any particular sentence reach its naturally expected outcome. Buy this book today.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJoey Weisenberg, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Torah of Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To read \u003cem\u003eNothing Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e is to gain access to a dynamic space where worlds collide—from family to philosophy, anarchism to esoterica. The multivocality of the text and many layers of meaning to be discovered in every line draw me back again and again. It may be true that nothing is for everyone, but I believe that in this brilliant book everyone will find something that moves their heart, expands their mind, and speaks to their soul.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAdina Allen, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These words gesture at the transcendent in almost secret ways: the hidden pun, the oblique reference, the \u003cem\u003esupernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul\u003c\/em\u003e.  But there is a deeper secret: that they are a gesture of the immanent, too, in their negative spaces, lacunae, and silences. That is when Eden Pearlstein persuades you that Nothing is for everyone.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJay Michaelson, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“At its best, Pearlstein's poetry achieves the irony and beauty of the \u003cem\u003eZohar\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Here is an amazing group portrait of forty-nine memorable women—one for each day of the Omer. Out of the past and into our present, Rabbi Hammer brings these characters to us, delivering a book to meditate with, a book that will inspire readers of all ages.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eAlicia Ostriker\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A uniquely beautiful, accessible, and inspiring approach to observing the Omer as a Jewish learning and spiritual practice. Jill Hammer’s scholarship regarding the women of the Bible combines powerfully with her astonishing ability to bring us new wisdom. 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And how can silence help us reckon with history and shape the future? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccompanying the poem, a lyric essay excavates the poet’s deep personal connection to the source text, weaving personal and collective history by traversing former concentration camps, immigrant communities in New York City, and remote desert wildernesses, and posing new possibilities for a less deterministic, more spacious and peaceful world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniela Naomi Molnar\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, artist, and writer who creates with color, water, language, and place. 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Her work is anthologized in \u003cem\u003eAttached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e (Trinity University Press, 2025) and in \u003cem\u003eBreaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e from the \u003cem\u003eLaurel Review.\u003c\/em\u003e Molnar lives in Portland, Oregon and in the high deserts of the North American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.danielamolnar.com\/\"\u003ewww.danielamolnar.com\u003c\/a\u003e \/ Instagram: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/daniela_naomi_molnar\/\"\u003e@daniela_naomi_molnar\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003ePROTOCOLS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Daniela Naomi Molnar’s ingestion of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Protocols\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ verbal poison confronts the monstrousness of a ‘zombie text refusing to die’ and brings about a momentary reversal of trigger and trauma, valence and polarity. The heart of this audacious erasure glows in a darkness that’s ancient and very much of our moment. Disturbing and generative.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Cole, author of \u003cem\u003eDraw Me After: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This book is oracular, tender, and absolutely brilliant. Daniela Naomi Molnar looked into a foundational antisemitic text and traced a radiant meditation on power and being. Her essay about her grandmother Rosalie contains some of the best writing I have read about ancestry, inheritance, and survival. This book is a blessing, a transmutation of suffering into a spacious body of language and light.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Jamison Webster, author of \u003cem\u003eBenjamin Banneker and Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“‘We are repeat children,’ poet Daniela Naomi Molnar writes in this searing, necessary meditation on inherited trauma, cycles of violence, and the possibility of healing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePROTOCOLS: An Erasure\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a fragmented psalm, an outcry, a fractured cultural memoir, and a gripping and timely reflection on how human beings can choose to use language to destroy—or to rebuild.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlicia Jo Rabins, author of \u003cem\u003eFruit Geode\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDivinity School\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePROTOCOLS: An Erasure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a text that holds within it the complexity of inherited Jewish trauma, the courage to reject exceptionalism and its supremacist logics, and the tenderness to honor loss and cradle the grieving body across generations. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePROTOCOLS: An Erasure\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDaniela Naomi Molnar asks: ‘How to not be history’s accomplice?’ This book is a master class on grief and the creative, regenerative impulse, metabolizing trauma and loss into a form that both mourns and resists. Brave, meticulous, haunting, and brilliant, this book is a journey of transfiguration, a widening of my mind.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMónica Gomery, author of \u003cem\u003eMight Kindred\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"At once a reckoning and a declaration, Daniela Naomi Molnar demands of the past a yielding to something new. 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Molnar lyrically asserts that, even amid despair and cynicism, ‘our hands    exist \/ as love,     a boundless \/ agriculture \/ of intelligence.’”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eRosebud Ben-Oni, author of \u003cem\u003eIf This Is the Age We End Discovery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Erasing the world's most influential antisemitic text, \u003cem\u003eThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion\u003c\/em\u003e, Daniela Naomi Monlar's \u003cem\u003ePROTOCOLS: An Erasure\u003c\/em\u003e repurposes the violence, theft, and mutilation of its source text, reducing \u003cem\u003eThe Protocols\u003c\/em\u003e to only what is needed to express the effects and affects of living in antisemitism's snare—to only what is needed to show what it means to be bound by history to language that seeks to erase your being—to only what is needed to untie the constraints of that language.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adie B. 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A stunning book by a poet I am excited to follow.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Solmaz Sharif, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCustoms\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCHORUS\u003c\/em\u003e beautifully embodies the ancient function of its title: an ‘I’ gathers to speak communally, to and of the crux in which we find ourselves. 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Decades after he fled the Nazis, Adam returns to Germany, where he confronts his past and his rapidly eroding memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e \u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomber and surreal, \u003cem\u003eDelicate\u003c\/em\u003e unfurls Adam’s distorted memories and fever dreams against the backdrop of modern Germany, where traces of history linger beneath daily life. Blending fact and fantasy, Adam summons fairy tales and bits of everyday culture as he attempts to compose his final testimony—and, in the process, to grieve all he has lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e \u003c!-- wp:paragraph --\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDelicate\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers to reflect on the power and limitations of language, and what happens when the memories of those who’ve shaped our present begin to dissolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRon Segal\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Israeli novelist and filmmaker. His work has been recognized with awards from the Goethe Institut, the Beijing Film Festival, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as with an Alfred Döblin Scholarship and fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture. Segal is currently adapting \u003cem\u003eDelicate\u003c\/em\u003e into an animated feature film. He lives in Berlin with his family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Details\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e164 pages | Paperback | 5.0625 x 7.75 in | ISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-1-961814-62-2\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: Spring 2027\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ayin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44336688726196,"sku":"DLC001","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0561\/0776\/1844\/files\/FinalDelicateFrontCover.jpg?v=1786975240"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.ayinpress.org\/collections\/ayinmembership_withfriends.oembed?page=2","provider":"Ayin Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}