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The Birthday of the World is a children's book by Rachel Naomi Remen, which is being published in September 2022.
And as we produce this, I am thrilled to announce that Rachel Naomi Remen is publishing her first book for children in September 2022 and it is called The Birthday of the World, a story about finding...
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The Birthday of the World is a children's book by Rachel Naomi Remen, which is being published in September 2022.
And as we produce this, I am thrilled to announce that Rachel Naomi Remen is publishing her first book for children in September 2022 and it is called The Birthday of the World, a story about finding light in everyone and everything.
Episode: [Unedited] Rachel Naomi Remen with Krista Tippett
Rachel Naomi Remen's book, "The Birthday of the World", tells the story of the creation as she heard it from her grandfather, a Jewish mystic. The story is about the holy light being scattered into fragments and the human capacity to find and restore these fragments.
You recount this idea of the Kabbalah which I had known but I don't think maybe because you're a storyteller it was very vivid for me. This idea that at the beginning of the creation the holy was broken up right?
The story of the birthday of the world. Is that how he told it to you?
So this is the story of the birthday of the world. In the beginning there was only the holy darkness, the einsaf, the source of life. And then in the course of history at a moment in time this world, the world of a thousand thousand things emerged from the heart of the holy darkness as a great ray of light.
Now according to my grandfather the whole human race is a response to this accident.
We are here because we are born with the capacity to find the hidden light in all events and all people.