Becoming a Jewish Adult

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The path to adulthood is full of twists and turns. From celebrating a bar/bat mitzvah to leaving home for the first time, this is a journey fraught with new freedom, new responsibilities, and an abundance of complex emotions. We offer blessings, prayers, and rituals that help parents and children use a Jewish vocabulary to describe this journey—and to experience it as richly as possible.

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A mother’s prayer on the occasion of her daughter becoming Bat Mitzvah

A beautiful song, a lullaby, about fully accepting our children and offering them complete freedom to become themselves

An opportunity to join with others and be witnessed in any life transition, both external and internal

Go forth to a place I will show you, a land you don’t know

“It seems like every time I want to write / I can’t / I’m always holding a baby”

Blessing for loved ones (partner, children, guest, etc…) on Shabbat or any occasion

A poem dedicated to women who are crafters of tallitot

Originally written for the period of Teshuvah — return — preceding the High Holy Days

A coming of age ritual representing a young woman’s past, present and future

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Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

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