28138/14 rituals ceremonial headcover dietary laws

Liberal Judaism does not believe that any of the rituals or ceremonial laws are 'G d-given': we believe that they are techniques employed by man to create a greater awareness of G d and of man's responsibilities to "HIM"!? In other words they may be regarded as religious "visual aids"?! In this light no rituals or ceremonial laws can be regarded as "obligatory", although many will be strongly recommended!

The measuring-rod of their usefulness in liberal Judaism is dependent upon the degree of sanctification which they engender, or - to put it another way - whether they serve any useful religious purpose at all! Clearly, what may be useful to some might not be helpful to others? That is why Liberal Judaism allows for variations of the degree and amount of religious ceremonial observance both among its communities and its individual adherents, and it also accounts for many old (or odd) techniques being replaced by new ones.

Some examples of the more widespread rituals in Judaism are more or less as follows. MEZUZAH literally means "doorpost", but it is the name given to an oblong metal (or wooden) canister which contains a piece of parchment on which are written in Hebrew the two paragraphs of the SHEMA (Deut. 6:4-9 & 11:13-21)! These paragraphs are used because they contain the actual words, "AND THOU SHALT WRITE THEM UPON THE DOORPOSTS OF THY HOUSE AND UPON THY GATES"!

On the outside of the mezuzah can be seen the word "SHADDAI" which means "Almighty"! The mezuzah is placed on the top right-hand side of the doorpost of a house as you enter from the street, with its top slanting inwards. PURPOSE? As we notice the mezuzah both when entering & when leaving the home it is a visual aid meant to remind us of our duties as a Jew both in the home and in our work and conduct outside the home (cf. a knot in a handkerchief in general life)?!

The significance therefore, in this ritual in not in fixing it to the doorpost, but in the attention one pays to it once it is affixed.

The last time Mòr saw it was at the house of Nurit who wanted to become pregnant in 1992 on our way to a bat mitzvah, the synagogue and so on: now she is the proud mother of Moshe & Gadi who probably have been in the army by now. Strange connections through the years: the winter of '66/'67 ~ the summer of '75/'76 ~ our sons being born & growing up through the ages @ Vale Ouwe, Groot Mokum, Arlozorov, Boyarin, Christians, Davis:
evoluties van geboren 'verhalenvertellers' mèt/in/via/door/over 'alle joden' & de eerste ontmoetingen in ontelbare bijbelverhaaltjes sinds 1944/'45 via de oervolken & de joden,
de christenen & de moslims, diverse soorten 'ontelbare heidenen', Assyriërs,
Babyloniërs, Chaldeeërs, de Egyptenaren, Feniciërs,
Grieken, Hindoes, Italianen,
Japanners, Kelten
etc.!!!

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