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

Alternate Mikveh Ritual Using the Element of Air

While traditional mikveh rituals use water, this alternative uses the air generated by four fan-bearers.
  • by Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer
mikveh
clouds blowing across a blue sky

Circumcision or Hatafat Dam Brit Ritual Using the Heel

  • by Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer
brit milah, lekh lekha
bare feet walking in the sand

Lech Lecha’s Promise

  • by Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Rubenstein
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”
  • by Danielle Selber
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”
  • by Batya Diamond
shehekheyanu, Shekhinah
purple flowers with a banner reading brucha at bayta diamond

We All Have a Name

“We all have a name / given by the mountains we climb”
  • by Lewis John Eron
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”

  • by Edie Yakutis
mikveh
Prayer at Mikveh

A Ritual Before Meeting with Your Beit Din for Conversion

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

  • by Ari L. Monts
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

  • by Devon Spier
mikveh
Waters of Change: Blessing over a Zoom Mikveh

Handwashing Ritual for Online Conversion

A virtual conversion ritual with handwashing to evoke the mikveh

  • by Rabbi Sara Y. Sapadin
conversion, handwashing, mikveh, water
Handwashing Ritual for Online Conversion

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