Preserve the memory of your loved one with a plaque on our Yahrzeit(Yiddish) The anniversary of a death, usually marked by the lighting of a 24-hour yahrzeit candle and the recitation of Kaddish, the memorial prayer. For U.S. Jews, the unveiling of the headstone usually takes place on or around the first yahrzeit. Wall. Learn More ->
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.Â
Traditional blessings for mikveh immersion
Humanist Sh’ma
Humanist Shehekheyanu
A ritual honoring a teacher at the end of a year of learning
Learn the shehekhyanu prayer in American Sign Language, along with the Debbie Friedman melody
Learn the shehekheyanu prayer in American Sign Language
“…you need to feel / how the ground may give way beneath the burden of you.”
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