Throughout the ages, the history of the Jewish people has been passed on and symbolized through Creation, Revelation, and Redemption, the three main components of the Salvation History. Elements of these components are re-enacted daily, weekly, and yearly in rituals so as to recognize, give tribute, and remembrance to the mythical history of the Jews. It is through the events of Creation, Revelation, and Redemption that the communal identity of the Jewish people was created. This identity has been sustained through the rituals of the Salvation History from the mythic past throughout time and still today.
             In understanding the rituals that came out of the mythic past of the Jews, it is first important to understand the three main components of the Salvation History. It was the Jews' beliefs and practices about these three components of the Salvation History that created strong ties between the Jewish community. The first event of these three that occurred in the mythical history was Creation. It is sacred history that is accepted as a true account of the past as to how this world and all of its creatures came to being. In the history of the Jews, it is in Creation that God first reveals himself. This part of Salvation History is where God first engages himself personally in the lives of Jewish ancestry, (Holdrege, Lecture, 1/12/01). A main significance of the Creation myth in Jewish life lies in the first chapter of Genesis, where God observes all that he has made on Earth, "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good," (Smart and Hecht, 50). Thi!
             s passage has particular importance because it tells the Jews that what God has done on Earth, including their creation, is good. This means that anything that is not good on Earth is the fault of humans.
             To sanctify the actions of God in the mythical past the Jews have adapted certain rituals for individual days and times throughout the year. It i...