Counting the Omer

Rebecca Goldstein

1995

Leiba recognized that Fraydel was in danger of disappearing down the well of her own thoughts.

Fraydel was a secret keeping herself from the world. When she spoke, it was yet another way of keeping silent.

And the moods. Carrying her so far away, it seemed she might never make her way back again. These were the times when Leiba knew terror.

Flesh…

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Rebecca Goldstein

b. 1950

A novelist and philosopher, Rebecca Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, attended Barnard College, received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University, and has taught philosophy and creative writing at Trinity College and Harvard University. Her writing has achieved both critical and popular acclaim, and she is the recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship and the 2006 Koret Book Award in Jewish Thought.

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