Parenting Day-to-Day

Being a parent provides endless opportunities for gratitude. We are privileged to witness life unfolding. We have opportunities to see the extraordinary in the ordinary each and every day. Even when it is messy, tedious, or frustrating, parenting has the power to connect us with something larger than ourselves.

Latest Rituals

A Prayer for a Mass Shooting, Before You Know What is Going On

“When the time comes, grant us wisdom, fortitude and stamina.”
  • by Esther Teverovsky, MD
mass shooting
a woman in a ponytail silhouetted against a white wall

Working Parent Ritual for Beginning and Ending the Work Day

This ritual offers working parents a moment of pause between our different roles in life
  • by Adva Chattler, Hila Ratzabi, & Cyd Weissman
children, parent
light skinned brown haired mother holding small child and multiple bags and a diaper bag outdoors giving the child a kiss

Blessing for Daughters

“May you claim your ancient power”
  • by Sara Stock Mayo
baby naming, baby shower, family, feminism, gender, naming
brown skinned woman in black tank dress holding hands and dancing with two brown skinned girls by the ocean with water in the background and sunlight

Source: Yitro

“I recall the dark / glittered. And I calmed …”

family, parent, Yitro
Source: Yitro

Tomorrow

“Your birthright renews every breath”

  • by Steve Pollack
children, grandparents, hope
Tomorrow

Tessarae

“this Milestone Mom Moment”

  • by Rabbi Gila Colman Ruskin
parent
Tessarae

Communal Blessing for the Children

“I created this prayer when I was a member of a very small synagogue with just a few children”

  • by Martha Hurwitz
blessing, children, parent
Communal Blessing for the Children

A Prayer for Dad

A prayer for fathers

  • by Alden Solovy
Father's Day, parent
A Prayer for Dad

Havdalah for Parent of Gender-Transitioning Child

  • by Lisa Levy
gender, genderqueer, LGBTQ, national coming out day, parent, trans, transgender
Havdalah for Parent of Gender-Transitioning Child

Prayer over a Sick Child

“May it be your will O Lord to bring full health to my child…”

  • by Howard Wolke
sick child
Prayer over a Sick Child

The Reconstructionist Network

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Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

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Learning to Say "We": Writing Identity

In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.

Four sessions, starting June 15th

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