Infertility

Historically, Judaism has offered little for women and men suffering with the pain of infertility. Thankfully, over the last 25 years, Jewish women and men have transformed the canon of Jewish ritual. Jewish women have both created new rituals grounded in traditional practices and language and unearthed prayers and rituals from our past written by and for women, responding to their lives and needs. Jewish men have also given voice to their own struggles with infertility through the creation of new rituals and blessings that acknowledge their shared pain.
 

Latest Rituals

Prayers for either discarding or donating frozen embryos one choose not to use
light brown hands cupping light pink petals
Ritual to acknowledge grief related to infertility or perinatal loss
close up of white woman wearing white t-shirt with a few colorful horizontal stripes. she's wearing a necklace with a key hanging on it, and she's holding the key with two fingers. she has rings on her pointer and middle fingers.
This is a script for an imagined infertility support group for Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Hannah
Infertility Speaks: An Imagined Support Group for Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Hannah

“We pray that those yearning to conceive, carry, foster or adopt will lead to a joyful outcome”

Prayer for Those Yearning for a Child

“There is nothing mere about water”

Water: A Prayer/Mikveh Ritual for an IVF Miscarriage
“Blessed are You, Divine Presence, Healer of All Flesh and Maker of Miracles”
Prayer for Those Struggling to Conceive & Infertility

A prayer about infertility invoking the biblical Hannah

Hearing in our Hearts

Thinking about Passover and the death of the firstborn, praying to conceive. 

hands holding yellow zinnia

To be used when someone stops taking birth control, and begins to look toward becoming a parent

woman immersing under water

A song on longing for a child

Daughter of Mine: A Song for Reconciling with Childlessness

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