Wholeness and balance are the ultimate goals of the Jewish mystical tradition. Each of the stories of the seven women mystics recounted in this book brings forth an element that has been lost and must be reclaimed for the tradition to be whole. Likewise, each of their lives can teach us about a specific yichud, a unification between severed opposites, such as eros and spirituality, shadow and light, earthiness and the transcendent life.
— Tirzah Firestone, The Receiving