{"product_id":"9781963475159","title":"The Sabbath Bee: Love Songs to Shabbat","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Shabbat arrives as usual,\u003cbr\u003edressed in silk\u003cbr\u003ewith her hair and make-up\u003cbr\u003ebeautifully arranged.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins The Sabbath Bee by Wilhelmina Gottschalk, which updates the millenia-old genre of Jewish Sabbath poetry for today's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Torah, say our sages, has seventy faces. As these prose poems reveal, so too does Shabbat. Here we meet Shabbat as familiar housemate, as the child whose presence transforms a family (sometimes in ways that outsiders can’t understand), as a spreading tree, as an annoying friend who insists on being celebrated, as a child throwing water balloons, as a woman, as a man, as a bee, as the ocean… Through the lens of these deft, surprising, moving prose poems, all seventy of Shabbat’s faces shine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRachel Barenblat\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTexts to the Holy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Yehuda Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46476971868401,"sku":"9781963475159","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781963475159_p0.jpg?v=1765403266","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781963475159","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}