With scholarship and storytelling, Rabbi Shoni Labowitz adds another command to those of the scriptures. Not only should we love God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our mind, we should love God with our body. In order to show us how to do this, Labowitz takes the stories of eight women of the Bible and reinterprets them in order to show contemporary women how to live vibrant sexual and spiritual lives. In a voice both frank and intimate, Labowitz guides the reader through the interpretations, uncovering the meanings and history that centuries of patriarchy have kept silent. As each woman's story unfolds, we see the traces of a matriarchal goddess culture that co-existed with the God of Abraham Isaac and Moses. We see also that God should not be excluded from our sex lives, but invited in to them, and that when God is present, our experiences will be transcendent. The book is structured in eight chapters, one for each Biblical woman, which corresponds to the stages of a woman's life.
