Inventing Jewish Ritual AUTH-2270227 ISBN13: 9780977452101

ISBN13: 9780977452101

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Inventing Jewish Ritual AUTH-2270227 ISBN13: 9780977452101Vanessa 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