The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern TimesUniversity of Washington Press, 1 de mar. de 2012 - 376 páginas In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events of birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat mitzvah and confirmation; engagement, betrothal, and marriage; and aging, dying, and remembering. Customs in Jewish tradition, such as the presence of godparents at a circumcision, the use of a four-poled canopy at a wedding, and the placing of small stones on tombstones, are discussed. In each chapter, detailed descriptions walk the reader through such ceremonies as early modern and contemporary circumcision, weddings, and funerals. |
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... Torah scholars it is written, “King David was now old” (1 Kings 1:1) [meaning], even though he was old, he was [like] a king.20 By far the most popular ages-of-man scheme in rabbinic literature is the addition to the fifth chapter of ...
... Torah, to teach him a craft, and to get him married. Some say: And to teach him how to swim.”25The first two obligations are biblically prescribed events, at age eight and thirty days, respectively, but the ages when the other stages ...
... Torah. The first is to be fruitful and multiply, addressed to young adults who marry and become parents (Gen. 1:28); the second is the commandment to the father to circumcise his eight-day-old son (Gen. 17:12). In contrast, the ...
... Torah “does not allow the birth of our children to be made occasions for festivity.”23 The Talmud refers to a custom that marked the event in Palestine, where parents planted a cedar tree for a newborn boy and a pine tree for a newborn ...
... torah(Torah lesson) that links the weekly Torah reading to the arrival of the new child. To be sure, there are huge gaps of time between mention of the Talmudic custom, the late medieval Ashkenazic one, and more recent practice, and we ...
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2 Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah Confirmation | 82 |
3 Engagement Betrothal Marriage | 124 |
4 Aging Dying Remembering | 193 |
Conclusions | 249 |
Glossary | 255 |
Notes | 261 |
Bibliography | 301 |
Index | 347 |
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