Surprised by God

At thirteen Danya Ruttenberg decided she was an atheist. As a young adult she immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late 1990s San Francisco-drinking smuggled absinthe with wealthy geeks and plotting the revolution with feminist zinemakers. But she found herself yearning for something she would eventually call God.Surprised by God is a memoir of a young woman''s spiritual awakening and eventual path to the rabbinate a story of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism without sacrificing either. It''s also an unflinchingly honest guide to the kind of work that goes into developing a spiritual practice-and it shows why perhaps doing this in today''s world requires more effort than ever.