Celebration & renewal : rites of passage in Judaism

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Title:

Celebration & renewal : rites of passage in Judaism

Author:

Geffen, Rela M.

Publication Information:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1993.

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages ; 24 cm

Summary:

Explains such life-cycle events as birth, marriage, midlife, sickness, religious conversion, and mourning as viewed, experienced, and treated from a Jewish perspective.

Language:

English

Contents:

"Be fruitful and multiply" : issues relating to birth in Judaism / David Novak -- Parents as partners with God : parenting young children / Steven M. Brown -- From Bar/Bat Mitzvah through the teen years : challenges to parent and community / Melvin L. and Shoshana R. Silberman -- Choosing Judaism : issues relating to conversion / Stephen C. Lerner -- Marriage : Judaism's "other" convenantal relationship / Daniel H. Gordis -- Midlife : from understanding to wisdom / Barry D. Cytron -- "The altar weeps" : divorce in Jewish law / Irwin H. Haut -- Bikkur Holim : sickness in Jewish law / Nahum M. Waldman -- The crown of glory : aging in the Jewish tradition / Dayle A. Friedman -- Death and mourning : a time for weeping, a time for healing / Judith Hauptman.

Reading Level:

1470 Lexile.

Subject Term:

Judaism -- Customs and practices.

Life cycle, Human -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.

Life change events -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.

Judaism -- 20th century.

Judaism -- United States.

Jewish way of life.

Added Author:

Geffen, Rela M.

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