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.

Latest Rituals

Audio/video shiviti meditation chant

“I am the one / whose prayers were left unanswered…”

A meditation for those who do not read Hebrew but wish to learn Torah

A poem about the wisdom in female friendship and laughter

Passing down our ancestors’ staff from generation to generation

A poem acknowledging we each have divine gifts.

A blessing for parents to recite at a child’s bar or bat mitzvah

A ritual for saying goodbye to a sacred text or person

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

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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