Inventing Jewish Ritual

Name: Inventing Jewish Ritual
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ISBN: 9780827608344

ISBN-10: 0827608349

ISBN-13: 9780827608344

Edition: 2007

Authors: Vanessa L. Ochs, Riv-Ellen Prell

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Vanessa Ochs invites her readers to explore how Jewish practice can be more meaningful through renewing, reshaping, and even creating new rituals--blessings for newborn daughters, Miriam's cup, becoming an elder, and more. We think of rituals -- the patterned ways of doing things that have shared and often multiple meanings -- as being steeped in tradition and therefore unalterable. But rituals have always been reinvented. When we perform ancient rituals in a particular place and time they are no longer quite the same rituals they once were. Each is a debut, an innovation: this Sabbath meal, this Passover seder, this wedding -- firsts in their own unique ways. In the last 30 years there has…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction: Becoming a Ritual Innovator



Democracy, Open Access, and Jewish Feminism



The Narrative Approach



Material Culture: New Rituals and Ritual Objects



Stretched by Innovation



Change: Resisting and Acclimating



Case Study 1: Miriam's Tambourine



Case Study 2: The Holocaust Torah



Case Study 3: The Wedding Booklet


Epilogue: Inheriting Invented Traditions



Record, Take It Down, Collect


Index