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...Niqaabi Club on which Muslim women worldwide can counsel or debate each other. If I were a Hindu - male or female - I could dive into the "Fatwa Bank," catch up on the latest news or find out which movies are "suitable." A Lubavitcher? I could get audio feeds of Torah classes...
...Roman influence (since the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.). Parents gave their children Greek names; intellectuals were conversant in classical philosophy. Greek had become along with Hebrew and Aramaic one of the area's main languages, and one of the most commonly used versions of the Torah was in Greek. (Jesus presumably spoke all three languages.) The interaction of Jewish and classical thought would lend the Christian Bible much of its strength...
Further misadventures ensue, during which Sharon flunks a religion course at the University of Hawaii. She finds herself reluctantly drawn toward the Jewishness that is her birthright, even though her upbringing was secular. Providentially--just maybe--she receives a letter from the long-lost Gary, who is studying the Torah in Jerusalem. Unannounced, Sharon flies there to join him and to narrow her search: "This is the ancient city of Jerusalem; I'm going to get some answers." Alas, Gary is too absorbed in his research to have time for her, and the answers don't arrive...
...stay." The novel tracks Sharon from the 1970s to the present, as she fleetingly adopts different lifestyles. Sharon tries to find her niche in almost every spiritual institution imaginable, from the Greater Love Salvation Church to a marijuana farm in Hawaii, from the Consciousness Meditation Center to the Torah-Or Institute in Jerusalem. The object of Sharon's quest throughout all of her divergent spiritual paths is revelation. Sharon yearns for God to flash the answer to all of her questions right before her eyes, to hit her over the head and yell, "This is your bashert...
Frimmer had always been active in the Jewish community, but his illness renewed his focus on his faith. He attended a weekly Torah-study class and began collecting research on Jewish healing services and intercessionary prayer. He said he wanted to become a resource for others, but clearly he was also on a personal quest to examine the frontiers of his own mortality. Companions joined him on his exploration. His daughter Dara, a theology student at Harvard with plans to become a rabbi, embarked on a chaplaincy internship at a Boston hospital. The confluence of her father's terminal illness...