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...ballet with the word ceremony in the title is likely to involve some kind of sexual initiation cum tribal rite. Nor man Walker's Ceremonials - based on a surprisingly tame and even melodious score by Dissonant Composer Alberto Ginastera-is true to type. It appears to be set in Brazil, or perhaps Inca-era Peru. The curtain rises to disclose a corps of dancers entwined in suggestively statuesque poses. Later, most of the couples writhe languidly on the floor in what might generously be regarded as orgasmic abandon. According to one associate of the company, Ceremonials is jokingly referred...
...omitted too. It seemed overly Zionist to many Reform Jews of the time. The diligent preparations for Passover were given short shrift. Discussing the traditional pre-Seder search for hametz (the leavened, potentially leavened and leaven-tainted food that must be removed from use during Passover), the 1923 rite condescendingly described it as "a quaint ceremony ... still observed by the Orthodox Jews...
...copiously and dramatically illustrated, that restores the old sense of ritual to the ancient celebration that begins this week. The plagues are back, though with a difference ("Our triumph is diminished by the slaughter of the foe"), and so is the closing wish for reunion in Jerusalem. The revised rite even endorses a search for the hametz, in which pieces of leavened bread are hidden so that children can have the delight of hunting for them...
Similarly, the new text includes a much more specific welcome to the prophet Elijah, who is expected to "visit" each Seder. "From beyond," says the new text unabashedly, "Elijah's spirit enters these walls ..." The expansion of the Elijah rite, Rabbi Bronstein explains somewhat prolixly, is a move "to preserve a sense of reverence before the mysterious pluralities of the transcendent." In another symbolic touch, an innovation of their own, the Reform liturgists have added a fifth cup of wine to the four traditional cups drunk by the celebrants-a cup that is left untasted "as a sign...
...confessions, the rules encourage the use of a room set aside for the purpose, require that the priest greet the penitent warmly with a reminder of God's forgiving nature, and read a passage of Scripture with a reconciliation theme. The new norms stress the sacrament as a rite of "reconciliation" between the sinner, his neighbor and his God, and try to give that conciliatory flavor to the encounter between priest and penitent...