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Stand Tall: A Bar Mitzvah Blessing

“Today you stand before us and make us proud…”
  • by SuzieB
Bar Mitzvah, blessing
an oak tree with a brown trunk and green leaves stands in foreground

Prayer for a BIPOC Festival

We, human beings,  share in the diversity of this garden we call home. And we are all blessed and strengthened by it.
  • by Kaya Stern-Kaufman
bipoc, blessing, community, diversity, strength
hands of different rainbow colors reach up against a white background

Blessing

The power to bless is the power / to choose.
  • by Elizabeth Caplun
ancestors, blessing, choice, freedom, power, powerlessness
five swallows, one with wings outstretched, sit on a thin branch of a tree with small red leaves

Blessing for Hunger

Don’t fret about terms, / she croons. / Just watch the squirrels
  • by Cathleen Cohen
blessing, food, hunger, mindfulness, nature
watercolor by author of a squirrel sitting on the branch of a tree

Rimonim

A poem of admiration for pomegranates
  • by Rabbi Shoshanah Tornberg
blessing, food, tree
bowl of pomegranates

Sanctuary

A moment of wonder during the morning service.
  • by Pearl Adler Saban
blessing, synagogue
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Torah and Haftarah Blessings with Feminine God Language and Re-Gendered Hebrew

Torah and Haftarah blessings addressing the Divine as feminine
  • by Lori Sumberg
blessing, feminism, gender, Shekhinah, torah
open torah scroll

A Blessing for Adoption

“May God make you like our adopted ancestors”
  • by Rabbi Alex Braver
adoption, blessing
brown-skinned man and woman sitting in a wheat field with sun shining, holding cute toddler between them

This One Small Life: A Prayer of Gratitude for Our Scars

“God of creation, / I come before You / to offer thanks for my scars”
  • by Alex Carter
blessing, gratitude, healing
silhouette of person standing with arms spread out in front of the sea at sunset. the sky is multicolored with oranges and yellows and reddish purples and some clouds.

Lech Lecha’s Promise

  • by Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Rubenstein
blessing, journey
person climbing hill in sandy desert with footsteps behind them and bright blue sky with white clouds above

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The Jewish Spirit of Hope

Join the Ritualwell community to read and discuss examples of hope expressed in writing through song, story, humor and metaphor that will stir you to think about where hope lives within you.

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Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis