Chapter One
Tenacity in Exile
Hannah Rachel of Ludomir (1815–1905)
For over two thousand years, feminine wisdom has run through Jewish history like an underground stream. Submerged by a dominant ethic that did not know how to tap its riches, it was left to meander, discovering its own subterranean path to the ocean. In its long exile, unseen and unlauded, the stream has wended its way beneath desert and temple, glory and wreckage. Intermittently surfacing
to the light, laughing out loud at human folly, it always
returned to its hidden route, quietly nourishing the earth from below.
But in our time, the underground current of women's wisdom is rising to the surface for good, ready to pour forth its treasures, never to be pushed down again.
Hannah Rachel of Ludomir was one woman mystic who exemplifies this persistent curre ...
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