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.

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While traditional mikveh rituals use water, this alternative uses the air generated by four fan-bearers.
clouds blowing across a blue sky
person climbing hill in sandy desert with footsteps behind them and bright blue sky with white clouds above
“May you know your bounty”
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.
“We praise you, Shekhinah, / who has given us life”
purple flowers with a banner reading brucha at bayta diamond
“We all have a name / given by the mountains we climb”
person standing on mountain in front of sea of clouds and sunshine

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

Prayer at Mikveh

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

A Ritual Before Meeting with Your Beit Din for Conversion

Blessing for an online mikveh immersion

Waters of Change: Blessing over a Zoom Mikveh

A virtual conversion ritual with handwashing to evoke the mikveh

Handwashing Ritual for Online Conversion

The Reconstructionist Network

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