The Importance Of Religious Traditions

In all religions, there are some basic traditions. Religion traditions are intertwined with culture, economics, politics, and modern social relationships on every dimension. Whether you attend a cathedral, a synagogue, or a mosque, habitually, intermittently, or abstain entirely, you simply cannot escape religion. The traditions and rituals only strengthen the bonds in many religious communities. The term religious community is used in a wider sense and a distinctive narrower sense. In the wider sense, the term is used to refer to members of one religion who may live in groups, or near or merged with members of other religions. In the narrow sense, the term is used to mean a group of people of the same religion living together specifically

The interaction between these two traditions causes all sorts of changes and growth in cultural structure of traditions. The Little Tradition or Yiddishkeit is a matter of everyday life and ordinary concerns, with a more homely feel. The Little Traditions are the traditions that are more uniquely based. Little Traditions are rituals that are typically not practiced by a majority of Jewish communities. Little Traditions “are matters of daily life...is largely unconscious and unconsidered, a profoundly familiar mix of household odors and habits, gestures, etc.” (Myerhoff, 143). The Little Tradition also undergoes changes due to its contact with Great Tradition and other parts of the wider civilization. The Little Traditions “makes a Jew from Berditchev nearly unrecognizable to one from Morocco or Berlin; the folk traditions separate Jews from different locales” (Myerhoff, 142). The Hasidic Jewish community, for example, have customs that differ from the majority of the Jewish community that the men and women wear all black, men grow out beards, women wrap their hair, wear wigs or shave their heads, and they only consume kosher foods and meats which means they have “been slaughtered in the ritually prescribed manner..”(Myerhoff,