"Many of the women who now use the mikvah don't do so in order to maintain ritual purity.
A real solution requires a far more ambitious effort that would change the way government works, increase citizen awareness and instill a sense of civic consciousness in a population that maintains rituals of hygiene at home but litters public spaces and neighbors' yards without compunction.
As staged by Anders Cato, the characters maintain their ritual coyness at center stage, on the show's main set, a large kitchen, but the animal sexuality that so disturbingly ripples through Strindberg's idea of relations between the sexes is made entirely manifest here.
Sleep deprivation is a small price to pay to maintain a ritual that began in my elementary school years when my father and I stood in line for three hours to see a closed-circuit telecast of our first World Cup game, the 1962 final between Brazil and Czechoslovakia, only to find that the commentary was in Spanish and Pelé was out injured.
They lived discreetly, maintaining Jewish rituals that would have put them in peril if they had been discovered.
After their deaths, they were posthumously tried in 1486 by the Inquisition for heresy for secretly maintaining Jewish rituals despite their conversions.
Maintaining traditional rituals is an important, unappreciated element of the campaign as a whole, a key part of its legitimizing function.
Kendrick has been a family therapist, speaker, educator and consultant for more than 30 years, and delivers parenting, motivational, corporate and work/family presentations nationwide on topics ranging from the relationship approach to parenting to maintaining family rituals.
Maintaining religious rituals and practising valued aspects of culture was seen as a way of promoting better mental health.
Wiccans should keep rituals secret and protected in order to maintain trust and ensure that people can be vulnerable within a trusted group and space.
