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hen you woke
found them to be of great
significance and deep
up this morn-
ing, what was
meaning. After all, through
the first thing you did?
these traditions our ances-
tors shared their deepest
What was the second? If I
were a betting man, I'd bet
thoughts and emotions with
the Holy One.
you know exactly what you
did.
Yet, while we look at
We are all creatures of
the sacrificial cult of our
ancestors as bewildering,
habit — from how we wake
up in the morning, what we
how many of us have made
Rabbi Aaron
have for breakfast, and the
talking to God — whether
Starr
route we drive to the office
through synagogue atten-
Special to the
dance or personal prayer
to where we sit in the fam-
Jewish News
ily room every evening, how
— part of our daily rou-
we make dinner and the
tines? How many of us use
way we brush our teeth before bed.
regularly the time-tested rituals-and
Habit provides us comfort and
traditions of our people to share our
order. Routine gives us a framework
deepest thoughts and emotions with
for understanding the world in which
our Creator?
How many of us have built Judaism
we live and gives us the means to take
control of our often out-of-control
into our daily lives and use it to renew
lives. Whether you call it habit and
ourselves and our relationships to
others?
routine — or ritual and tradition
— familiarity breeds comfort.
Our par-shah begins,"Vayikra el
However, many of us look back on
Moshe, [God] called out to Moses:'
the routines of our ancestors and con- and goes on to talk about the way in
sider them primitive. After all, they are which Moses and our ancestors called
in no way similar to our own routines. back. This week, as we ponder the
Our ancestors had no television or
intricacies and complications of our
radio with which to start their day.
ancestors' sacrificial cult, let us look
They had no cars or planes to travel to anew at the routines of our lives to see
in what ways we may begin to call out
work. They had no microwaves with
which to cook or indoor plumbing to
to God and to open ourselves as well
... In fact, they didn't even have ipods to God calling back to us. ❑
or e-mail (how did they live?). Their
routines were very different than ours, Aaron Starr is a rabbi at Congregation
though, like us, their rituals and tradi- Shir Tikvah in Troy.
tions provided meaning and comfort
in their lives.
We read this week the first Torah
Conversations
portion of the book of Leviticus. In it,
In what ways have we already,
and in what ways might we in the
we learn about the rituals regarding
voluntary offerings, sacrifices of well-
future, build Jewish practice into
our daily lives? How is Jewish
being, and sin and guilt offerings. The
Torah provides very explicit direc-
prayer similar to the sacrificial
tions on how these sacrifices were to
cult? How is it different? What
happens if we get out of the
be performed, of what the sacrifices
routine of Jewish practice? How
might consist, and when they should
might we re-engage certain ritu-
be offered.
als
and customs?
Those of our ancestors who prac-
ticed these rituals regularly surely
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