Judaism Unbound Episode 398: Jewish Ritual Craft - Rachel Rose Reid
What are the purposes of ritual in our lives? What are the ingredients that go into a successful ritual? Rachel Rose Reid, a ritualist and storyteller who was the first British person to be ordained by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about crafting Jewish ritual.
[1] Rachel Rose Reid’s Fall ‘23 UnYeshiva course, Crafting Jewishly-Rooted Ritual, is ready for your registration! Learn more about all five of our full-semester courses at JudaismUnbound.com/classes.
[2] Learn more about Rachel Rose Reid on her website, and check out Yelala, her constellation of projects in collaboration with Yael Tischer.
[3] For more on the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute’s archetype of the wailing woman, check out this source sheet compiled by past podcast guest Jericho Vincent.
[4] Reid mentions this portion of II Samuel in which Rizpah makes a vigil beneath her hanged sons as an example of embodied grieving ritual in the Torah.
[5] Read more about Reid’s collaboration with artist Pablo Villierezz to create a memorial ritual fusing Jewish and Mexican practices via this Huffington Post article.
[6] Check out this article to learn more about Viewpoints Technique, the performance-based method of communication that informs Reid’s approach to ritual creation.
[7] Dive deeper into the folk ritual of Simchat Beit HaShoeva, or the Water Libation Ritual, celebrated during the festival of Sukkot.
[8] Lex brings up the Willesden Green Wassail, a gratitude ritual facilitated by Reid, which you can witness on YouTube.
[9] Check out Three Acres and A Cow, a song-and-story protest performance that features Reid as a storyteller.
[10] Reid cites Jill Hammer's Book of Days as part of her journey towards discovering the connections between Celtic and Jewish Earth-based ritual.
