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Article: 'Hear O Israel, the Divine Abounds Everywhere': Marcia Falk's
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- August 30, 1996
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E.J. Kessler
Forward
08-30-1996
`Hear O Israel, the Divine Abounds Everywhere': Marcia Falk's Pantheistic. Approach to Liturgy
Forget God the Mother. Forget Shekhinah. For feminist Marcia Falk, any kind of transcendent god -- that is, a deity, be it male, female or neuter, who dwells "out there" beyond human experience -- is incompatible with feminism and the pursuit of social justice. What's more, according to Ms. Falk, our belief in God is responsible for pretty much everything that's wrong in this world.
"The model of God as `other,' commander...who tells us what to do, has operated in Western civilizations as part of a whole...hierarchical structure," said the poet, translator and ...
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