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1. 1 2023-04-07T19:30:48-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 Feminizing the Sabbath as a queen or with she/her pronouns is frequently seen in psalm. This plays off male domination/female subservience norms of the era - as if the Sabbath, like a woman, needed to be kept and protected. Ilana Weisman 3 plain 2023-04-07T19:32:52-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
2. 1 2023-04-07T19:32:12-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 The femeninization of Shabbat also fits how it falls under a woman's domestic responsibilities; her role was to care for her family both physically and spiritually, and that includes honoring the Sabbath with and for them. Ilana Weisman 2 plain 2023-04-07T19:32:46-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
3. 1 2023-04-07T19:38:11-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 The transliterated Hebrew prayer would be more familiar to Reform Jews of the Fairmount Temple, who likely attended English language services and may not have been able to read Hebrew lettering. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-07T19:38:11-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
4. 1 2023-04-07T19:39:38-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 This holds particularly true for women, who for generations were excluded from the study of Torah. They lived in a Yiddish language world, the language of every day life, rather than a Hebrew world, the language of religion and law. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-07T19:39:38-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
5. 1 2023-04-07T19:34:27-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 Her ritual responsibility of lighting candles is one of the few truly sacred acts a woman traditionally performs. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-07T19:34:27-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
6. 1 2023-04-07T19:35:26-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 The use of passive voice removes agency and identity from the woman who performed the cooking and baking, taking her contributions for granted, a given. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-07T19:35:26-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4
7. 1 2023-04-07T19:36:44-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4 It's not uncommon for community cookbooks to contain instructions on how to keep and care for a Jewish home. These texts are a means of preservation, of reproducing norms and expectations and rituals, of both the mundane and sacred. Ilana Weisman 1 plain 2023-04-07T19:36:44-07:00 Ilana Weisman 717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4

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• 1 2022-03-28T07:37:50-07:00 The Fairmount Cookbook 18 gallery 2023-04-08T08:59:34-07:00 The Fairmount Cookbook is the spiritual successor to EATS, created and printed by the same sisterhood one generation and one temple rebranding later. This iteration of the cookbook is more formally bound and printed; it's available in digital format from a variety of sources, including the New York Public Library, and can even be ordered in print on Amazon. This cookbook hits close to home: we have a different, red spiral-bound Fairmount Cookbook at my parents' house. The recipe for "Chai Prize Winning Brownies" contained in that cookbook was the first one I ever memorized.