Tkasim<\/a> (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153ceremonies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) that helps non-religious Israelis created humanistic life cycle events – weddings, funerals and bar and bat mitzvah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c along with Shabbat and holiday celebrations.<\/p>\nIn conjunction with its ordination ceremony in December, Tmura sponsored a full day conference featuring biblical-themed lectures on topics such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153human rights issues during the biblical era,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the bible as inspiration for contemporary art,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153comparing lifecycle events, ceremonies and celebrations during biblical times with contemporary Judaism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The organization is also trying to arrange a monthly humanistic Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. Such gatherings already exist on a number of secular kibbutzim where Tmura-trained rabbis live, Rabbi Maas told me.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The kibbutzim are going through a fascinating process of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcre-comunitizing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 themselves in the post-privatization stage, realizing they want a community but they also need capable professional leaders to do the job,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Maas said.<\/p>\n
The time for Tmura may be ripe. With recent polls showing that a majority of Jewish Israelis favor the recognition of non-Orthodox conversions, and with the creation of some 30 new mixed secular-religious congregations in the last few years, Tmura\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alternative agenda could gain traction,<\/p>\n
It may not be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153revolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that many of the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new secular rabbis called for at the ordination, but it certainly won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be for lack of trying.<\/p>\n
This article on Tmura appeared yesterday on Israelity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jerusalem Post reported this weekend about a rabbinic ordination ceremony of a very different kind. I was there at the event too, which took place in December. What made it all so unique was that the new rabbis were all entirely secular. And they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe in God, at least not in the traditional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[29,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}