LEADER 03736nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910969627503321 005 20251117005438.0 010 $a0-8276-1118-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000033921 035 $a(OCoLC)647931956 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10388527 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421078 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305938 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421078 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10405595 035 $a(PQKB)11365930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039337 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12582 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039337 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10388527 035 $a(BIP)30506096 035 $a(BIP)13761009 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000033921 100 $a20060929d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInventing Jewish ritual /$fVanessa L. Ochs ; foreword by Riv-Ellen Prell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cJewish Publication Society$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8276-0834-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aVanessa 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 606 $aJudaism$xCustoms and practices 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aJudaism$xCustoms and practices. 615 0$aJews$xSocial life and customs. 676 $a296.4 700 $aOchs$b Vanessa L$01861875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969627503321 996 $aInventing Jewish ritual$94468091 997 $aUNINA