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Endings & Beginnings

Our lives are shaped by a series of stories, each with its own narrative arc. We leave home and welcome people to our home; we enter our reproductive years and leave them; we end one piece of our life’s work and begin another. Endings and beginnings are bittersweet—we celebrate each with the awareness of the other. 

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A short ceremony to rededicate/rename a sanctuary in someone’s honor
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A ritual for the holy work of seeding your garden or farm
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A ritual to help you acknowledge your time in a particular space and prepare to move on
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“We bless separation, between light and darkness, between Shabbat and weekday, between rabbi and rabbi.”
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“I stand here today to acknowledge and affirm this moment in my spiritual journey”
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“We praise you, Shekhinah, / who has given us life”
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“I am more aware of the fluidity of it all”
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Ritual to let go of synagogue building and the kedushah within, so that the building ultimately can be sold, repurposed, or demolished
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“We pray that you carry us in your heart to your new home”
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“Evening and morning, ritual and rite, / making order out of chaos”
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