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SUMMARY:Transitions and Anxiety: Rites of Passage in Judaism
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Transitions create anxiety. That is why transitional moments in the day, month,week, year, and lifetime tend to become ritualized. The academic word for these transitions is "liminal," which simply means "thresholds." From the broadest perspective, every human life is marked by many transitions, the most significant ones being birth, puberty, marriage, and death. Every religion has devised ways of celebrating these transitions and locating them within the context of that religion’s distinctive stance regarding the meaning of a human life. This course will primarily study Judaism’s understanding of three of those transitions: birth, marriage, and death.=0D=0A=
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