Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Rituals are how civilizations preserve their memory by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Linked post from ChiefRabbi.org

When people talk about religion in Britain, they tend to speak about beliefs. Which, for Jews, is very odd. Yes, belief is important, but for us religion is fundamentally about rituals, the things we do together as an expression of collective memory and shared ideals. Ritual is the poetry of deed, the choreography of faith, and nowhere is this clearer than on Passover, Pesach, the festival we begin celebrating this Monday night.
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