Living Jewish Life Cycle: How to Create Meaningful Jewish Rites of Passage at Every Stage of Life
The spiritual tools you can use to infuse Jewish life cycle ceremonies with meaning, integrity and joy.
Discover the spiritual meaning in Judaism’s major life cycle moments. Understand, create and enter wholeheartedly into Jewish life cycle ceremonies, preparatory practice, and celebrations.
More than just how-to, Rabbi Goldie Milgram guides you in making your Jewish rites come alive with meaning, beauty and with lasting impact on you, your friends and family. She takes you beyond rote rites—beyond just surviving—and directly into accessing Jewish rites of passage as a force for thriving. With careful attention to both traditional and emerging practices across the full spectrum of Jewish life, Rabbi Milgram examines:
- Jewish Weddings, Traditional and Inclusive Rites
- Welcoming a New Baby and Raising a Healthy Jewish Child
- Meaningful, Memorable Adolescent and Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah
- Ritual Support for Many Stages of Adulthood
- Jewish Rituals for When Relationships End
- Jewish Approaches to Dying, Death, Burial, Mourning and Remembering
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Book details
- Author
- Rabbi Goldie Milgram
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 312
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Jewish rituals · Jewish spirituality · lifecycle ceremonies · Judaism · religious celebrations
- ISBN-13
- 9781580233354 (Paperback)9781683361763 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI GOLDIE MILGRAM is founder and executive director of ReclaimingJudaism.org and the author of over thirty years of innovations in Jewish spiritual practice. Her books include Living Jewish Life Cycle: How to Create Meaningful Jewish Rites of Passage at Every Stage of Life, Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days and Shabbat, and Meaning and Mitzvah: Daily Practices for Reclaiming Judaism through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew, Mitzvot and Peoplehood.
Milgram served for nearly seven years as dean at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York City, where she trained rabbis and cantors. She has led seminars at institutions including Esalen, Elat Chayyim, Princeton University, Bard College, the United Jewish Communities, and the Hadassah Foundation.
When she’s not writing, Milgram develops Web-based resources on Jewish spiritual practice for seekers and teachers. That same commitment to accessible, applied spirituality runs throughout her books.