Becoming a Jewish Adult

A young person reads from a Torah scroll with two adults by their side, in a ceremonial setting.

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

A poem for embracing chosen family

Person from behind, facing a vast, calm lake under a cloudy sky.

How do we decide to be who we are meant to be?

Person hiking on a rocky trail wearing brown boots with red laces and cream socks.

Humanist Sh’ma

canyon between tall red stones

A meditation and teaching for taking on new responsibilities

A woman with outstretched arms walks down a road in a rural landscape under a cloudy sky.

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

woman sings and man signs torah blessings

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

Two people standing indoors. One is signing in ASL, while the other looks at the camera. Abstract art in the background.

Learn the shehekheyanu prayer in American Sign Language

Two people standing indoors. One is signing in ASL, while the other looks at the camera. Abstract art in the background.

Learn the blessing after the Torah reading in Hebrew and ASL

woman sings and man signs torah blessings

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

woman sings and man signs torah blessings

Learn the blessing before the Torah reading in Hebrew and ASL

woman sings and man signs torah blessings

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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