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Kary Hess
Jun 11, 2025
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This week, I’m thinking about ritual. Did you have ny growing up? Do you have it now? If you have kids, do they have any shared rituals as part of a community?

This past weekend, I attended a friend’s daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in LA, (the city was not on fire by the way) and it really made me aware of how lacking our culture is, in general, of rituals that …

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