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If All the Seas Were Ink : A Memoir by Ilana Kurshan is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is If All the Seas Were Ink : A Memoir about?
The Wall Street Journal: "There is humor and heartbreak in these pages...Ms. Kurshan immerses herself in the demands of daily Talmud study and allows the words of ancient scholars to transform the patterns of her own life." One of BookRiot's most anticipated nonfiction books for the week of September 4 At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world's largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for "daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic, Kurshan adapted to its pace, attuned her ear to its poetry, and discovered her passions in its pages. She brought the Talmud with her wherever she went, studying in airplanes, supermarket lines, and over a plate of pasta at home, careful not to drip tomato sauce upon discussions about the sprinkling of blood on the Temple altar. By the time she completed the Talmud after seven and a half years, Kurshan was remarried with three young children. With each pregnancy, her Talmud sat perched atop her growing belly. This memoir is a tale of heartache and humor, of love and loss, of m
Who reads If All the Seas Were Ink : A Memoir?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Ilana Kurshan
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250121271
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Judaism, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (378 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14