Honest and courageous, Tova takes us through her first year outside her marriage and community as she learns to silence her fears and seek adventure on her own path to happiness.

To free the part of yourself that has been suppressed, even if it means walking away from the only life you've ever known. This is a memoir about what it means to decide to heed your inner compass at long last. This will mean forging a new way of life not just for herself, but for her children, who are struggling with what the divorce and her new status as 'not Orthodox' mean for them. After years of trying to silence the voice inside her that said she did not agree, did not fit in, did not believe, she strikes out on her own to discover what she does believe and who she really is. In this very special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast, we interview Tova Mirvis, author of The Book of Separation: A Memoira powerfully relevant memoir about Tova’s loss of faith as an orthodox Jew, and her experience living in a mixed-faith marriage before her divorce. Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Tova decides to leave her husband and her faith. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family.īut over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age forty she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence. Hello Select your address Kindle Store EN. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. The Book Of Separation: A Memoir eBook : Mirvis, Tova: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store. Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life.

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