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
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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