Type: Ritual Component

Capturing the Tree of Life pattern by creating a placenta print

Selecting verses from Psalms on the basis of the Hebrew name of the deceased

A tradition honoring a Torah reader at a funeral

A ritual of gratitude for the life of a person who is dying

Recalls the concept of the Sheva Berakhot used in a wedding ceremony

Excerpt from an original babynaming ceremony in which the baby is welcomed into the covenant by perfuming her ears with myrtle

Lighting a candle, symbolic of the new soul born into the world. Can also be used like a yahrzeit candle to recall the departed soul for whom the baby is named. Also a covenantal symbol.

Some couples wrap the baby in a tallit, perhaps the one used as their huppah, as a symbol of covenant or welcome

A symbol of life, love, and renewal at a baby naming ceremony