Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life

Our world offers a dizzying array of options for constructing identity and making meaning. In this context, all Jews are Jews by choice. Whether choosing Judaism for the first time, or returning or affirming this path for yourself, the choice to live a Jewish life calls for ritual and communal celebration.

Latest Rituals

Lech Lecha’s Promise

blessing, journey

person climbing hill in sandy desert with footsteps behind them and bright blue sky with white clouds above

A Prayer for Self-Celebration

“May you know your bounty”

blessing, celebration, growth, joy

tree in the center of image with light shining through, woman dancing to the right, wearing a gauzy white dress that's blowing as she dances with her hands outstretched. she has brown hair and light or olive skin.

Berukhah At (Shehekheyatnu): A Divine Feminine Blessing for Momentous Occasions

“We praise you, Shekhinah, / who has given us life”

shehekheyanu, Shekhinah

We All Have a Name

“We all have a name / given by the mountains we climb”

name change, naming

person standing on mountain in front of sea of clouds and sunshine

Prayer at Mikveh

“I close my eyes like a newborn as I immerse”

Prayer at Mikveh

A Ritual Before Meeting with Your Beit Din for Conversion

“May I feel belonging and chosenness in all spaces.”

belonging, chosenness, conversion

A Ritual Before Meeting with Your Beit Din for Conversion

Waters of Change: Blessing over a Zoom Mikveh

Blessing for an online mikveh immersion

Waters of Change: Blessing over a Zoom Mikveh

Handwashing Ritual for Online Conversion

A virtual conversion ritual with handwashing to evoke the mikveh

conversion, handwashing, mikveh, water

Handwashing Ritual for Online Conversion

Creation Stories

“The Divine breath / Enters the human shape”

Creation Stories

Theological Questions

“The fish are passing through sunlight and shadow”

Theological Questions