Becoming a Jewish Adult

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 Jewish way to mark life’s passages

“May your eyes sparkle with the light of Torah and your ears hear the music of its words” — a prayer for our children based on a talmudic passage

“May you live to see your world fulfilled”

A ritual for parents and children involving a havdalah service before leaving for college and the hanging of a mezuzah upon arrival

A father’s prayer read at the Shabbat table prior to his son’s departure for college

Ceremony for a child going off to college for the first time

A ritual for parents and children marking this significant moment in their relationship

A set of suggestions for creating a Jewish celebration of menarche
A poem about a daughter’s onset of menses at the same time as her mother, the poet, begins menopause
A tambourine ritual for the onset of menses

The Reconstructionist Network

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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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