Embracing the Divine Feminine

Rabbi Rami Shapiro

A fascinating new look at the Song of Songs as the union of Lady Wisdom and the seeker of Wisdom—the Divine Feminine and you. 

The Song of Songs is the Bible’s deeply erotic poem of love, sexual yearning and consummation. Holding it sacred yet troubled by its thinly veiled eroticism, Jews and Christians for millennia have read the Song of Songs as an allegory of God’s love for Israel—the classic Jewish understanding—or Jesus’s love for his Church—the classic Christian understanding. Embracing the Divine Feminine restores the Song’s eroticism and interprets it as a celebration of the love between the Divine Feminine and the contemporary spiritual seeker. 

In this fresh translation, Lady Wisdom offers seekers physical and spiritual intimacy with her so that they might awaken to and participate wisely in the unity of God, woman, man and nature. Intriguing facing-page commentary provides historical, religious and spiritual insights from Christian and Jewish wisdom traditions as well as clear comparisons to other translations. 

Compelling in its novelty and accessible in its presentation, this version of the Song of Songs will appeal to Christian seekers who are interested in going more deeply into the Bible, Jewish spiritual seekers, and the spiritually independent who are looking for teachings and practices rooted in but not limited to religion.