Book Signing/Brunch Program: EveryTallit Tells a Tale, by Debra Smith

Every Tallit Tells a Tale is an inspired and inspiring collection of never-before-published essays and poems, all focusing on how a tallit (prayer shawl) figures in and enriches each writer’s spiritual life. This anthology reveals how the fringes of the tallit tie together generations within a family and generations within the larger family of all Jews. Tallit designers mesh their spiritual and creative urges as they weave, sew or knit prayer shawls for themselves or their loved ones. And for many writers – women especially – donning a tallit for the first time and uttering the age-old bracha (blessing), once exclusively reserved for men, takes on monumental significance.