Honoring Relationship Milestones

As our relationships grow and deepen, many of us seek to celebrate these changes. We offer blessings and rituals to sanctify the complexity of our intimate relationships and celebrate their resilience.

Latest Rituals

An Offering

You offered to walk with me around Queen Anne Hill, holding my hand / You offered to take me out again. / What was the meaning of these offerings? /

home, love, marriage, relationships

two people hold hands in a grassy field who are wearing identical pink wristbands that say "camping"

Brit Horim: A New Parent Ketubah

“becoming a parent is a significant lifecycle event and merits its own ritual”

baby naming, brit milah, parent

A woman holding and kissing a baby indoors on a couch.

Back in the Garden

“Your love is running honey”

heart, love

A joyful couple laughing while sitting inside a tent in the outdoors.

Gd is Simple

God is loving another

heart, love

Three heart-shaped leaves hanging from strings against a blurred background, each leaf showing natural imperfections.

Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet

meditation, megillah, mourning, welcoming

Person meditating with hands in prayer pose, eyes closed, in a dimly lit yoga class.

Self-Rescue: Prayer for Tending to Ourselves During Marriage

Rescuing our own selves was really the beginning

lost, love, water

For Sharing Divine Gifts

A poem acknowledging we each have divine gifts.

Silhouetted wildflowers against a mountain backdrop during a sunset.

Renewing the Marital Promise: Reyim Ahuvim

A Jewish version of renewing vows to celebrate an anniversary or life change or to re-commit after a particular trying time or marital crisis

anniversary, mezuzah, shehekheyanu, sheva brakhot, vows

Floral arch on a beach with candles on a table beneath, ocean and sky in the background.

Egalitarian Tena’im

Written for two men; adaptable for any two partners

LGBTIQ, tenaim

Tena’im

tenaim