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Becoming a Jewish Adult

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The path to adulthood is full of twists and turns. From celebrating a bar/bat mitzvah to leaving home for the first time, this is a journey fraught with new freedom, new responsibilities, and an abundance of complex emotions. We offer blessings, prayers, and rituals that help parents and children use a Jewish vocabulary to describe this journey—and to experience it as richly as possible.

 

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Our family, so shattered, so seemingly broken, was given new life today.
a person in a purple tallit gathers the four tzit-tzit in their hands
“Today you stand before us and make us proud…”
an oak tree with a brown trunk and green leaves stands in foreground
A beautiful wedding day prayer from parent to child.
a bride steps out of a car
An interpretive version of the Threefold Benediction.
a table with kippot
This ritual is designed for an adult B’nei Mitzvah cohort in advance of their service.
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“I, my child, / will never tire / of bringing you / morning worm…”
a birds nest
“Today, as I affix mezuzot, as I say the shehekhayanu, / As I step into a new chapter of my life, / I take this moment to acknowledge / That my life is about to change.”
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“I’m proud of you, my child, for the courage to step away from family and  familiarity / For venturing out to meet new people, try new things, discover a new You.”
teen jumping into a lake
A ritual to help you acknowledge your time in a particular space and prepare to move on
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person climbing hill in sandy desert with footsteps behind them and bright blue sky with white clouds above

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Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

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