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The Kaddish responds to three questions: Is there a God? Why do people die? What is the meaning of life?

The evolution of attitudes towards physicians, beliefs connecting illness and sin, prayers for healing, and the use of folk healing traditions.

The author adapts biblical texts to create a ritual that expresses the anguish of terminating a pregnancy

Through prayer and ritual during the month after the termination, the parents work through lingering feelings of guilt and sorrow.

Husbands, wives, and relationships in Judaism are governed by the principle that "It is not good for the human to be alone."

Shoveling dirt onto the coffin is the family's final ritual act of honoring the dead.

Traditional Jewish Egalitarian Ceremony. Contemporary Jewish Marriage Issues. Jewish Marital Relations. Jewish Lifecycle

Kiddushin and Egalitarianism. Contemporary Jewish Marriage Issues. Jewish Marital Relations. Jewish Lifecycle

In addition to the traditional get (bill of divorce) granted by the husband, Reconstructionism offers a woman-initiated get and a mutual get.

Jewish chosenness is not a metaphysical reality. It derives from the conditions of a particularly prosperous period in Israelite history.

The husband may grant a conditional divorce if he expects to be in mortal danger.

History of Jewish divorce, Biblical, Talmudic, and modern