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Eloise A. (Van Gennep) Collins, 81, of Sully, IA, passed away Sunday. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 8 at 10:00 am at Sully Christian Reformed Church in Sully, Iowa. Interment will follow at the Sully Cemetery. Visitation will begin Wednesday after 3:00 pm with the family present from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at Sully Christian Reformed Church in Sully, Iowa. Memorial contributions are suggested for Care Initiatives Hospice.
Judging by the conversation online, I can tell many Jews are wondering: Is there a consensus on what blessing to recite when we receive our Covid-19 vaccine?
The question intuits what I’ve heard firsthand from members of my community, Congregation B’nai Shalom in Walnut Creek: receiving the vaccine is a spiritual moment. It provides a glimmer of hope and sense of deep relief after a profoundly difficult year. Receiving the first dose of the vaccine also moves the recipient into what sociologist Arnold Van Gennep famously called a liminal period.
From the Latin word
limen, meaning threshold, the term is applied to a person on the brink of entering a new phase of life. These seasons of life are betwixt and between: the person in a liminal phase is no longer who they were but also not yet who they will become. Van Gennep contended that these periods were disorienting and jarring both for the individual and the community and, as a result, societies needed rituals and ceremoni