There is nothing that is not liminal

Rabbi Joshua Boettiger

“The liminal dimension undergirds all human experience. In some sense, there is nothing that is not liminal. We live our lives (and perhaps find sanity) by fashioning fixed structures of meaning and identity; selves and narratives that are generally static and contained. But that is not life, as much as it is the mask we put onto life … all of the core tales in the Torah are stories of the negotiation of the liminal state – the anticipation of entering the liminal zone … We are a community of the in-between, sharing this liminal passage of life. Because we are in a place neither here nor there, our default emotional state is often one of anxiety, and so our spiritual and religious practices become ever more paramount in helping us exhibit friendliness towards those places we do not understand. At the very least these ancient teachings can help us gird our loins. To see as clearly as we can. To see with heart. To do our best to turn towards.”

— from Rabbi Joshua Beittiger, “Ye Shall Be Changed” in Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality