“Gorgeous. Daring. Wise. This is how you translate tradition!”— Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual“Rabbi Vincent and Rabbi Krieger have written a text as mystical as it is practical, as visually beautiful as it is quietly subversive. It’s as if the Talmud were translated into tarot, which is to say: my ideal religion. It should be in every hotel room in America.”— Bess Kalb, author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me“Speak to the Bones is a window into the version of Judaism I want to practice: an emotionally attuned, glimmeringly beautiful religion stripped of its layers of patriarchy. I'd recommend it to anyone who knows Jewish text and to anyone who doesn't; to someone in need of a spiritual practice, and to someone who likes to be taken out of themself through art. Reading it, I️ found myself mourning what I've been missing all this time, and delighting in what has quietly been there all along.”— Liana Finck, author of Passing for Human and Let There Be Light“Contrary to the monolithic image that too many of us were taught, Judaism is a whole world, a beautiful pile of cultures and texts and dreams and hopes. These teachers understand that. Jericho and Zvika are digging through the pile and putting shards together in new ways, an act which has always been vital to our people. This book is gorgeous and we’re so lucky to have these two creating new expressions of Jewish magic.”— Ezra Furman, musician and songwriter“Rising from the depths of our ancestral heritage, this stunning collection of spells and sacred intentions is a vital contribution to the emerging landscape of post-patriarchal Jewish wisdom. By resurrecting, reclaiming, and reimagining poems, pleas, and prayers from across the Jewish civilization, this bold collection provides us with the essential tools to meet every milestone with purpose, pride, and presence, to live life out loud—not merely as observers, but as active witnesses and partners in the co-creation of a joyful, safer, just, and loving world.”— Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Lab/Shul“In my office I keep stacks of a few books that I give out to congregants in moments of joy and sorrow, yearning and homecoming. Speak to the Bones will now be one of them. In this book, Rav Jericho and Rav Zvika do what they do best: they welcome in everyone, including more conventional folks like me, take us to the edge of our comfort zone, and then show us that we were already home. In this extraordinary book, they hand us back a Jewish magical tradition that has always been ours — relevant, tender, and humming with the voices of our ancestors.”—Rabbi Shira Stutman, author of The Jewish Way to a Good Life and cohost of “Chutzpod!”“Judaism has always known that the most powerful magic turns adversaries into allies, awakening the divine spark buried beneath harmful armor. Speak to the Bones revives this ancient alchemy, gathering forty Jewish spells and incantations that transform fear into confidence, wounds to wisdom, and enemies into mirrors. Your ancestors have been casting spells like these for centuries. Now it's your turn.”— Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, founder and CEO of Shefa
