Celebration: A Ceremonial and Philosophic Guide for Humanists and Humanistic Jews

By Wine, Rabbi Sherwin T.
Prometheus Books, 2003, Paperback, 439 pp., ISBN: 1591021669, $32.00

For twenty years, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine has provided original celebrations of every variety for a secular Jewish community.

Celebration: A Ceremonial and Philosophic Guide for Humanists and Humanistic Jews is the product of his experience. It is an affirmation of the ethical view of life that dramatizes, in prose and poetry, what secular and humanistic Jews feel about their heritage.

The celebration material in the book is primarily verbal. It is also strongly intellectual and ideological, as well as reflective and sentimental. The style rests on the conviction that celebration events can touch both the mind and the heart; the content rests on the conviction that reason and emotion, inspiration and integrity, humanism and Judaism, are not separate, but complementary.