Type: Ritual

Latest Rituals

Preparing Your Prayers for the High Holidays

Take time to prepare your personal prayers for the high holidays

kavanah, prayer, teshuvah

a person is holding a blue book open

Changing Your Fate for the Coming Year

Practices and meditations for making changes in life during the high holidays and all year long

change, Elul, rosh hashanah, teshuvah, tzedakah, yom kippur

a chrysalis hangs from a branch, there is a monarch wing visible through it

Egg-sodus & the Circle of Life

Including eggs in your seder meal to remind us of the circle of life, and that endings often mark beginnings

egg, grief, healing, pesach, seder, seudah hamafseket, seudat havra’ah, shulkhan orekh, tisha b'av

close up of two eggs on a flat surface

Tashlikh Ceremony

Try tashlikh for Rosh Hashanah: a healing ritual to cast off burdens

hatarat nedarim, meditation, rosh hashanah, tashlikh, teshuvah, women

four people, two of which are wearing kippot, stand on a small mossy bridge overlooking a body of water

Guided Meditation for Tashlikh

Takes listeners through the Jewish year and explores their feelings at each season

meditation, reflection, rosh hashanah, tashlikh

a person in a jacket and hat is standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking Emerald Bay on a foggy day

Tashlikh Tidbits

A humorous list of different types of bread to use for different sins for tashlikh

food, tashlikh, teshuvah

an assortment of different kinds of bread, wheat, and bags of grain

Soul Candles

A traditional pre-High Holiday ritual of making candles for one’s beloveds

ancestors, ashkenazi, candles, death, tekhine, women

dozens of lanterns illuminate a dark background