To thine own self be true: Sharon Brous has let this advice
illuminate her path to becoming a rabbi. She was raised with a strong
social, but not religious, Jewish identity. The more she studied and
admired the humanity in the sages’ writings, the more Brous felt her
voice was silenced simply because she is a woman. Today, as an ordained
rabbi, Brous’s decades of hands-on pastoral care in Los Angeles has
cleared “a path to become myself.” Her book, The Amen Effect—and
how to get it—is embraced by seekers of every stripe and urges us to
seek human connection in an increasingly isolated and divided world.
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