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Loving Our Own Bones
- Rethinking Disability in an Ableist World
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
A 73rd National Jewish Book Awards Winner - Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice
Open the Bible, and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters and thinks himself unable to answer God's call. Isaac's blindness lets his wife trick him into bestowing his blessing on his younger son. Jesus heals the sick the blind, the paralyzed, and the possessed. For centuries, these stories have been told and retold by commentators who treat disability as misfortune, as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity, or as a challenge to be overcome.
Loving Our Own Bones turns that perspective on its head. Drawing insights from the hard-won wisdom of disabled folks who've forged difference into fierce and luminous cultural dissent, Belser offers fresh and unexpected interpretations of familiar biblical stories, showing how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh. She talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in disability stigma and shame, challenging interpretations that demean disabled people and diminish the vitality of disabled lives. And she shows how Sabbath rest can be a powerful counter to the relentless demand for productivity, an act of spiritual resistance in a culture that makes work the signal measure of our worth.
With both a lyrical love of tradition and incisive political analysis, Belser braids spiritual perspectives together with keen activist insights-inviting listeners to claim the power and promise of spiritual dissent, to nourish their own souls through the revolutionary art of radical self-love.
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- 19-04-24
inspirational, educational, instructive, empowering...
I couldn't put this down from start to finish. a real woman unabashed. with real female drives, who happens to be wheelchair bound and happens to be a rabbi in an elite educational establishment identifies for the reader in, with immaculate use of the English language ,how, once disability can be owned as a blessing ( rather than a curse) it can be a real driver that takes one outside the box of an " ablist " world with the use of faith.
the author happens to be Jewish ( and exceptionally adept with the reason and argument of the faith, ) but convincingly argues that anyone who is disabled irrespective of their faith or strongly held spiritual conviction can do the same including of course lgtbq+ communities.
thank you. wow .GREAT STUFF!! XX.
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