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. 

Latest Rituals

A ritual for saying goodbye to a sacred text or person

Traditional blessings for mikveh immersion

A poem for those at a spiritual crossroads 

A prayer acknowledging unhealthy family dynamics

Humanist Sh’ma

Humanist Shehekheyanu

A meditation and teaching for taking on new responsibilities

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

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

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