Endings & Beginnings

Our lives are shaped by a series of stories, each with its own narrative arc. We leave home and welcome people to our home; we enter our reproductive years and leave them; we end one piece of our life’s work and begin another. Endings and beginnings are bittersweet—we celebrate each with the awareness of the other. 

Latest Rituals

Without a Jewish calendar, what does Jewish life entail?
hebrew words on stones
“So teach me to number my days / Savor the music of the birds / Entwine my branches with those of others”
two yellow birds on grey bare branches
“When we speak the truth to power – saying, this is who we are / We reach back to help those still stifled in Mitzrayim, or poised / Uncertain at the shore.”
bare feet on a rock in a stream
A short ceremony to rededicate/rename a sanctuary in someone’s honor
synagogue sanctuary with red carpet
A ritual for the holy work of seeding your garden or farm
An Embodiment Ritual for Planting the First Seeds of the Season
A ritual to help you acknowledge your time in a particular space and prepare to move on
woman sitting in window seat, in profile, backlit
“We bless separation, between light and darkness, between Shabbat and weekday, between rabbi and rabbi.”
light skinned jewish woman with dark curly hair in purple t-shirt holding a silver spice holder and sniffing the spices with a smile
“I stand here today to acknowledge and affirm this moment in my spiritual journey”
black and white photo of white woman immersed in ocean water, head sticking out the water, leaning back, eyes closed
“We praise you, Shekhinah, / who has given us life”
purple flowers with a banner reading brucha at bayta diamond
“I am more aware of the fluidity of it all”
close up of ocean water with sunlight on the surface

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