Type: Prayer

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Modern prayer invoking the foremothers

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Modern prayer in Hebrew and English invoking the matriarchs

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A joyous prayer for a child’s first home coming

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A traditional Yiddish tekhine

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Blessing over wine, said at all joyous gatherings. Included are masculine and feminine blessings and a non-gendered blessing by liturgist Marcia Falk.

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Revised traditional “Harakhaman” for a baby naming

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A reading based on a traditional text in which God withholds the Torah from the Jews until they can offer good guarantors

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Traditional prayer of thanks for a mother after delivering a child, or for one who has recently escaped danger or returned safely from a journey

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“There is a new light in our hearts and in our home…”

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A guided meditation for illness, pain, stress, or grief which calls upon imaginings of the foremothers

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