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Becoming an Elder

A joyful elderly woman is embraced and kissed on the cheek by a younger woman in a cozy, warmly lit room.

It is a great privilege to become an elder—to grow in wisdom and have the capacity to share it with others. We celebrate this gift with prayers, blessings, and rituals to mark our passage into the next phase of adulthood.

Latest Rituals

Third Age Ritual

Source sheet pairing verses from Eicha with voices of immigrant parents separated from their children

  • by Kitty Hoffman
aging
Older couple laughing together inside a tent, enjoying a sunny day outdoors.

Elders’ Prayer

  • by Cathleen Cohen
aging
A happy couple laughing together inside a tent during the day.

Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet

  • by Rabbi Lewis John Eron
meditation, megillah, mourning, welcoming
Person meditating with hands in prayer pose, eyes closed, in a dimly lit yoga class.

Dream of the Red Tent

  • by Kohenet Annie Matan
feminism, gender, lesbian, LGBTQ, Miriam
A group of diverse people holding hands and smiling outdoors on a sunny day.

Where God Lives

“God lives inside my walker…”

  • by Stacey Zisook Robinson
aging
black and white photo of walker zimmer

For Sharing Divine Gifts

A poem acknowledging we each have divine gifts.
  • by Alden Solovy
Silhouetted wildflowers against a mountain backdrop during a sunset.

Your Passover Story

Four Questions to interview Jewish women at Passover

  • by Jewish Women's Archive
four questions, seder
adult grandchild and grandmother at dinner table

Kavod Ha’em – Honoring a Foremother

A ceremony which adapts traditional texts and facilitates an individualized ceremony to honor those whose memory we wish to perpetuate

  • by Pat Barr z”l, Rabbi Fredi Cooper, and Lori Lefkovitz
eshet hayil, kiddush, Mother's Day, tzedakah, yahrzeit
A woman kisses a smiling girl on the cheek in a grassy field.

Rosh Hodesh: An Oasis in Time

How Rosh Chodesh ceremonies enable nursing-home residents to live in a cycle of significant moments
  • by Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman
older woman face in profile

Appreciating Our Elders

Questions for an intergenerational Thanksgiving conversation

  • by Rabbi Doris Dyen and Reena Sigmund Friedman
elders, gratitude, questions, storytelling, thanksgiving
a person kisses an elder person on the cheek
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