Inventing Jewish Ritual 1st Edition by Vanessa Ochs ISBN 978-0827608344 0827608349
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ISBN 10: 0827608349
ISBN 13: 978-0827608344
Author: Vanessa L. Ochs
Vanessa Ochs invites her readers to explore how Jewish practice can be more meaningful through renewing, reshaping, and even creating new rituals, such as naming ceremonies for welcoming baby girls, healing services, Miriam’s cup, mitzvah days, egalitarian wedding practices, and commitment ceremonies. 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 been a surge of interest in reinventing ritual, in what is called minhag America. Ochs describes the range and diversity of interest in this Jewish American experience and examines how it reflects tradition as it revives Jewish culture and faith. And she shows us how to create our own ritual objects, sacred spaces, ceremonies, and liturgies that can be paths to greater personal connection with history and with holiness: baby-naming ceremonies for girls, divorce rituals, Shabbat practices, homemade haggadahs, ritual baths, healing services. Through these and more, we see that American Judaism is a dynamic cultural process very much open to change and a source of great personal and communal meaning.
The ceramic “Tree of Life” spice container that appears on the cover of Inventing Jewish Ritual is by Susan Garson of Garson and Pakele Studios, www.garsonpakele.com
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1. Democracy, Open Access, and Jewish Feminism
CHAPTER 2. The Narrative Approach
CHAPTER 3. Material Culture: New Rituals and Ritual Objects
CHAPTER 4. Stretched by Innovation
CHAPTER 5 Change: Resisting and Acclimating
CHAPTER 6. Case Study 1: Miriam’s Tambourine
CHAPTER 7. Case Study 2: The Holocaust Torah
CHAPTER 8. Case Study 3: The Wedding Booklet
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