“Recommended to all so inclined to experience the Jewish day of rest.”

“The Sabbath Bee” reviewed by Roger S. Kohn for Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews

These 77 prose poems comprise short vignettes to “welcome the Shabbat bride not like a weekly visitor but as a long-awaited, yearned-for beloved.”

At the Shabbat service, Gottschalk “felt that Shabbat herself was sharing our eagerness for a true reunion,” and she writes how she “began to image Shabbat in various guises, making a unique entrance every week … If Shabbat can be a queen, doesn’t it stand to reason that he can also be a grandparent, a blanket, a jealous girlfriend …hundreds of thousands of facets all taken together might form a reasonable outline of ineffable perfection.”

Recommended to all so inclined to experience the Jewish day of rest.