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Endings & Beginnings

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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 poem of release and acceptance

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Developing a ritual for the dissolution of a home

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Wishes for hope, optimism, and new possibilities

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An opportunity to join with others and be witnessed in any life transition, both external and internal

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Go forth to a place I will show you, a land you don’t know

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A contemporary poem on the desire to conceive

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The Reconstructionist Network

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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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