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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Humanist Sh’ma

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Learn the traditional blessing before the Torah reading in American Sign Language

Learn the shehekhyanu prayer in American Sign Language, along with the Debbie Friedman melody

Learn the shehekheyanu prayer in American Sign Language

Learn the blessing after the Torah reading in Hebrew and ASL

Learn the Reconstructionist blessing before the Torah reading in Hebrew and ASL

Learn the blessing before the Torah reading in Hebrew and ASL

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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