Category: Leaving Home

Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place Yourself

By Alden Solovy

January 7, 2019

Like the liturgists of old, Arlin’s work troubles us where we are too comfortable and comforts us when we are troubled

Sheri Lindner

August 8, 2017

Although I always seem to pick the hottest day of summer, it is a ritual whose heat and aroma wraps me in serenity, like the fine silk of a tallit.

By Rabbi Kami Knapp

August 2, 2017

Ritual helps us pay attention. From the joy of a recovery to the grief of a funeral, ritual helps us inhabit the breadth of human experience.

By Kami Knapp

May 30, 2017

Is a ritual for saying goodbye to a sacred text appropriate for saying goodbye to people?

September 7, 2011

What I learned from a wrong turn on the road to the perfect ritual.