“Brings together modern Jewish philosophy, Jewish historical and religious studies, and feminist theory to draw out themes like responsibility and obligation in the maternal experience.”
 — Claire Elise Katz, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

“A richly imagined work that brilliantly captures the complexity and contradictions of the experience of parenting and then uses that experience to shed light on the nature of God and multiple neglected aspects of Jewish tradition. Few readers will come away from this book without being stimulated, challenged and enlarged by it.”
 — Judith Plaskow, author (with Carol P. Christ) of Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology

“One of the most creative projects in Jewish feminist thought in a long while. Benjamin turns a feminist examination of maternal subjectivity into a critical lens for Jewish thinking about the self. She draws on a wide range of resources, beginning with biblical and rabbinic texts, putting them into conversation with modern Jewish thought and various types of feminist literature to create as rich and deep a Jewish conversation as possible.”
 — Charlotte Fonrobert, author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender