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This comprehensive guide to Jewish observance throughout the life cycle is the best introduction to Reform Jewish practice available.  It includes sections on birth, childhood and education, marriage and the Jewish home, and death and mourning, as well as essays on sexuality, kashrut, divorce and the single parent family, Jewish ethical wills, tzedakah and other topics.  Shaarei Mitzvah also features extensive notes and references for further study.

This completely revised and updated classic resource serves as an introduction to the Jewish life cycle. The first part of the book uses a question and answer format to introduce ideas about moments in the Jewish life cycle, including birth, Jewish education, bar/bat mitzvah, the Jewish home, marriage, divorce, conversion, death, and mourning. Rabbis and scholars such as Rabbis Aaron Panken, z"l, Rachel Mikva, Amy Scheinerman, A. Brian Stoller, Lisa Grushcow, Mary Zamore, and Elyse Goldstein muse on topics such as mitzvah, infertility, the ketubah, b'rit milah, welcoming converts, tzedakah, Jewish voices on sexuality, and more. This is the essential resource you've been waiting for!